On a lighter note ?

[gazaprop]

Can someone explain to me the shampoo & conditioner thing?

As I see it people, mostly much younger than I, spend upwards of a fiver on a bottle of product to remove the oils in their hair and then - spend upwards of a fiver on another bottle of product to put it back in!

I'm confused.com!

[salus.populi]

Can someone explain to me the shampoo & conditioner thing?

As I see it people, mostly much younger than I, spend upwards of a fiver on a bottle of product to remove the oils in their hair and then - spend upwards of a fiver on another bottle of product to put it back in!

I'm confused.com!

How often do you stand and observe the shopping habits of younger people?

[Toodles McGinty]

I always thought the 'rinse & repeat' was nonsense, until my cousin (a hairdresser back then) told me the first lather shifts all the dirt and the second cleans the hair.

Just asked her. She says you're right, one strips the oils, one seals the hair up with oils. Bad oils and good oils, apparently. Something to do with a smoother surface.

All I know is without conditioner my head looks like a haystack wrapped in candy floss. Frightens the cat. So I'll carry on making Mr Tresemme rich.

[gazaprop]

I always thought the 'rinse & repeat' was nonsense, until my cousin (a hairdresser back then) told me the first lather shifts all the dirt and the second cleans the hair.

Just asked her. She says you're right, one strips the oils, one seals the hair up with oils. Bad oils and good oils, apparently. Something to do with a smoother surface.

All I know is without conditioner my head looks like a haystack wrapped in candy floss. Frightens the cat. So I'll carry on making Mr Tresemme rich.

My hair looks just the same, although I had to check a photograph, circa 1998, to be certain.

[gazaprop]

How often do you stand and observe the shopping habits of younger people?

It's far worse than that - I have to live with 'em!

[jamyramy]

No idea, I decided to try it once but by day 5 I looked like one of those cormorants they pull out of oil slicks so I gave in and washed it!

my hair gets pretty tainted by the polishing compounds i have to use,so its an after polish day wash else its mancky pillows and collers.just use imperial leather hand soap an good to go.find all those fancy dandys stuff make my scalp itch like f..k

[MICK/GILLY]

With the greatest respect , he has got to stink, you can’t not wash your head for 10 yrs and not stink, I don’t mean any disrespect with this comment but poo.

[sandGroundZero]

A cultural cliché recurring often in advertisements and elsewhere evidently signifying the pursuit of calm, collectedness, etc. — sitting cross-legged, eyes closed e.g. :

I recall from a (once upon a time) yoga class, sitting with knees in the air (as per image above) is after 5 minutes, or less a recipe for back pain.

[Hamble]

A cultural cliché recurring often in advertisements and elsewhere evidently signifying the pursuit of calm, collectedness, etc. — sitting cross-legged, eyes closed e.g. :

I recall from a (once upon a time) yoga class, sitting with knees in the air (as per image above) is after 5 minutes, or less a recipe for back pain.

I do that in the hairdressers on a chair whilst having my hair washed for me.

[joan ofarc]

I have only washed my hair with one application of shampoo for years. The trick is to make sure your hair is thoroughly wetted before applying the shampoo. Then a jolly good rinse. Mind you, I don't do a dirty job or live with smokers anymore so my hair is probably cleaner than it used to be back in the day and doesn't need much of a wash. Hairdressing relatives aside I reckon the two applications was started as a sales ploy to make you buy more.
As for conditioner, remember the days after you washed your hair when you couldn't get the tangles out and you ended up in a screaming match with your mum? Anyone with long hair would know the agony of it. Then along came conditioner and all was peace once more.
Conditiner's up there with antibiotics and anaesthetics I reckon.

[sandGroundZero]

I do that in the hairdressers on a chair whilst having my hair washed for me.

I had somehow imagined that having your hair washed in the hairdressers' establishment would, at the least require you leaning over a basin.

Do you wear a raincoat?

[Hamble]

I had somehow imagined that having your hair washed in the hairdressers' establishment would, at the least require you leaning over a basin.

Do you wear a raincoat?

Where is your imagination sGZ?

[said]

With the greatest respect , he has got to stink, you can’t not wash your head for 10 yrs and not stink, I don’t mean any disrespect with this comment but poo.

I would have thought so too, my head sweats like mad and I have not got any hair. Has he got dreads?

[said]

I have a friend who has not washed his hair for over 10 years. It looks clean & always neat. He regularly goes to the barbers for a trim.

There are many people who don't believe in washing either - they say they are more healthy than those who wash.

They would be, and there is a reason for that - they stink so much that people will not go anywhere near them, so they cannot catch germs.

[Little Londoner]

The .power of advertising, how do you explain shampoo & conditioner combined in one bottle