What Is a Belly Button Piercing? A belly button piercing is a piercing through the skin around your belly button or navel, usually enhanced by a ring or other ornament. If you want to get a belly ...

Navel stones are hardened clumps of oil and dead skin cells that camp out in your belly button. Scientifically speaking, they're called omphaloliths. And — you guessed it — there are plenty of great ...

Navel pulling involves putting castor oil on your belly button and massaging it to improve digestion, natural detox, and weight loss. However, no scientific evidence exists to support these claims. If ...

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India, Oct. 7 -- In the age of viral health trends, few wellness hacks have captured the internet's curiosity quite like navel pulling, the practice of applying castor oil into your belly button to ...

Even if castor oil doesn’t help flatten your stomach, there is one science-backed pro when it comes to using castor oil topically: It is pretty moisturizing. “Castor oil is really rich in fatty acids, ...

Navel stones are an accumulation of sebum and keratin that can resemble a large blackhead in your belly button. A navel stone is a hard, stone-like object that forms inside your belly button (navel).

When it comes to body parts, the belly button doesn’t usually get much attention. Yet this often-overlooked little spot is a treasure trove of interesting details. Whether you've got an innie or an ...

I'm supposed to start this story with a joke about navel gazing, but that's been done before. So instead, I'm going to hit you with some equality. We all have belly buttons, people. They are the great ...

SHIBUKAWA, Japan (Reuters Life!) - It was belly-up for thousands of people who indulged in a weekend of navel gazing at a festival dedicated to the belly button in central Japan. Children and adults, ...

A professor of ecology and radiation studies at Leibniz University in Germany, Steinhauser would love to talk about the important environmental research his team is conducting. But back in 2009, he ...