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Shampoo!
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Salad Dodger
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kent Coast
I am solving this problem gradually, by having less and less hair.
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
A bit like rich p, except he dates back much further.......
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I'm afraid I use more scalp wax than shampoo these days.
Globalti
Legendary Member
I haven't used shampoo for years, just use soap.
But yes, I work in a business that supplies the shampoo manufacturers and I can tell you that shampoo is much of a muchness, basically surfactants and foam boosters, preservative and other "aesthetic" ingredients. Here's a simple shampoo formulation:
Sodium Laureth Sulphate Detergent 45.00%
Cocamide DEA Foam Booster 3.00
Deionised Water Carrier 51.30
Methylchloroiso
Thiazolinone &Methylisothiazolinone Preservative 0.20
Salt Thickening Aid q.s.
Citric Acid pH Adjuster Sufficient to pH 6.5 to 7.0
Fragrance Perfume 0.50
You can also add colour, pearliser or opacifier, silicones and other things to improve the hair feel and even an extract or two, which is nothing more than water and propylene glycol, which has had some aloe vera or summat soaked it it, added to the shampoo at 0.2% to support the fancy label claims. Dress it up a bit, pack it nicely, charge a high price, advertise it on the telly and you can fool most of the public into thinking it's better than the others.
But yes, I work in a business that supplies the shampoo manufacturers and I can tell you that shampoo is much of a muchness, basically surfactants and foam boosters, preservative and other "aesthetic" ingredients. Here's a simple shampoo formulation:
Sodium Laureth Sulphate Detergent 45.00%
Cocamide DEA Foam Booster 3.00
Deionised Water Carrier 51.30
Methylchloroiso
Thiazolinone &Methylisothiazolinone Preservative 0.20
Salt Thickening Aid q.s.
Citric Acid pH Adjuster Sufficient to pH 6.5 to 7.0
Fragrance Perfume 0.50
You can also add colour, pearliser or opacifier, silicones and other things to improve the hair feel and even an extract or two, which is nothing more than water and propylene glycol, which has had some aloe vera or summat soaked it it, added to the shampoo at 0.2% to support the fancy label claims. Dress it up a bit, pack it nicely, charge a high price, advertise it on the telly and you can fool most of the public into thinking it's better than the others.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Bodywash, you can wash your entire body apparently.
I don't bother with conditioner......
Or hair
The answer is simple, you're a slaphead. Hope this helps
From certain angles in certain light it is certainly not the 100% head of curls I had as a child, maybe...
Welcome to the club.
I use Johnson's baby shampoo on the hair I have left, does the job and isn't full of pointless add ons.
Don;t know which is worse, being a slaphead or being in a club that let's you in
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
There's "dry shampoo" as well, which is basically a powder that soaks up grease / oils. And would you believe that even one make of that (Batiste) comes in 15 seperate variants.
- Location
- Egham
I'm fortunate enough to have a Sister in law who is an Avon lady, so I just buy their mens body and hair all in one on the cheap. As I get older it seems to be used for more body and less hair....
Globalti
Legendary Member
There's a company in South Africa called Amka who make a cheapo foam bath called Satiskin. They were selling millions of bottles a month and couldn't understand why, until Marketing discovered that people were using it to take a bath, then bathing the kids, then washing the family clothes then finishing off by washing the dishes, so strong is the detergent and so good the perfume!