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Beauty Tested, Beast Approved is a grooming blog by Grady Laird. His wife, Amy (the beauty director of Allure magazine) has tried thousands of products over the years—mostly on herself, but often on the human guinea pig who sleeps next to her. For every Beast Approved entry, head here.

Grooming-wise, about nothing is going to kill your social game worse than a case of stanky breath. You can’t just mask the odor with minty-ness though. It’ll just come back with a (slightly minty) vengeance. That’s why I love Smart Mouth’s new Advanced Clinical Formula 12-Hour Mouthwash (available at Walgreens, Target, and Drugstore.com; price TBA). It’s got a special zinc-powered formula that annihilates bacteria on your tongue before they can give off sulfur, the foul-smelling culprit behind bad breath. It really does leave your mouth feeling clean and sanitized without an overpowering taste, better even than the other popular go-to washes out there. It’s long-lasting like it claims, also. Will it last 12 hours? Well, that depends on what you’re scarfing down in said 12 hours. Technology is still no match for the powers of garlic and kimchi.

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