Infographic: The Role Women Play in Male Grooming

Aug 20th, 2015

Kristen Wegrzyn

The Benchmarking Company set out to discover the role women play in their male partner's grooming habits. The below infographic is part one to a two-part series in which 2,379 U.S. women were surveyed about their male counterpart's activity in front of the bathroom mirror.

Male grooming

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