Mid Brain muses
Here’s an interesting product – Frederic Fekkai’s Wash & Wear spray shampoo. You can simply spray this in your hair to 
keep it clean in between shampoos.
Powder shampoo
“What a novel, breakthough idea!” you must be saying to yourself.
“Why has no one else in the history of hair care EVER thought of a spray on shampoo that doesn’t have to be rinsed off?” you’re probably pondering as you read this.
“Only the advanced science of the new millennium could have possibly created a spray on product to keep your hair clean between shampoos,” you’re thinking.
Is that what you’re thinking?
If it is, you’re WRONG!
It’s time you learned that, with the possible exception of the Internet, everything that’s worth inventing was created in the 70′s.
Case in point, check out this ad from the Beauty Brains ad vault for Psssst! Shampoo. Possibly the only cosmetic product ever to include a punction mark in it’s name.
Psssst! is also famous for being the first spray on, no rinse dry shampoo. It was essentially a powder that you sprayed in your hair to absorb oil, then you brushed it out. It didn’t work very well and it was kind of messy, but it did prevent hundreds of thousands of women from wearing a bag over their head between shampoos.
So in your FACE , Frederic Fekkai!
More dry shampoos
Intrigued? In addition to Fekkai and Psssst! here are a few other dry powder shampoos you might want to check out:
Algemarin Shampoo “Dry-Powder Spray”
TIGI – Rockaholic – Dirty Secret Dry Shampoo
Rene Furterer Naturia Dry Shampoo
Oscar Blandi Pronto Dry Shampoo Spray
Have YOU tried a dry shampoo? Leave a comment and share your experiences with the rest of the Beauty Brains community.
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This product is actually different from the other cornstarch-based dry shampoos. Its first three ingredients are water, witch hazel, and alcohol. Basically, it allows you to wet your hair with pleasant-smelling, hair-drying ingredients, and then you can re-style it as you like. Surely not a breakthrough, but different from Psssst! nevertheless.
I used frederick fekkaui and my sister tried it and my
daughter tried it, we found it made your hair feel
gooy and it looked dirty after a few hours. I tried it
multiple times and was not impressed at all.
I have tried the Oscar Blandi and found it not worth the price. I paid around $20, and it was very oily. I usually had to wash my hair after using it! Defiitely stay away from this one.
I use dry shampoo all the time. I use Batiste and having tried a couple of other brands, it’s by far my favourite. And it’s cheap, about £2 a can.
What’s even crazier is that they still make Pssssssst! the one from the 70s, i got a can at Walgreens a few months ago. It’s definitely cheap, and it works just ok. My scalp itches when my hair is dirty, so it didn’t help with that at all, but my hair didn’t look greasy. I’m blonde so it didn’t matter that it was white in color, but I think it might not work for brunettes etc.
I’ve used Renee Furterer (a white powder) and the cheap bottom shelf Salon Graphix (it comes in a few shades). I prefer the cheap one. It helps me get by when in a hurry, but nothing replaces a good shampoo.
Well I have to say I find this very interesting and I lived through the 70′s and I never heard of it. I’m a bit skeptical to the whole thing but I guess I should try it before I judge eh?
I use Oscar Blandi Pronto Dry Shampoo (not the spray) all the time and LOVE it. The bottle has lasted me forever, and it really extends a blow-out. The smell is not so great, but it’s worth putting up with. It was my favorite product discovery of 2008.
I’ve used orris root powder once, one of those “great-grandmother’s recipes” type things I learned from someone online. I think it would work very, very well if you didn’t have stupidly thick, wavy/curly hair.
Translation: it did not work for me, at all. I was so bummed. I sprinkled it in, and it vanished. My hair ate it. I hopped in the shower a minute later.
If your hair is on the fine or straight side, you can probably use it more easily. If you have wavy or curly hair, and it’s thick, don’t bother. Especially if it’s dark.
Fine blonde hair can get by with baby powder. Seems fair as this type definitely shows grease the most.
What about Exclamation, the fragrance by Coty? I think I had some in high school. The bottle didn’t just have punctuation, it was punctuation.
My wife swears by Klorane Shampoo Dry. I might have to suggest to her a couple more on your list, especially if they work better and are cheaper. This is a really great top ten list, you can post this to our site http://www.toptentopten.com/ and then link back to your site. We are looking for top ten lists and our users can track back to your site. The coolest feature is you can let other people vote on the rankings of your list.
Why not just use cornstarch?
I like this one:
http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=181704&catid=131704
and its cheap!! WAHOO!
I use Ojon dry rub out spray – I love it! The spray dries to a powder that you brush out and it leaves my hair looking and feeling great. Most of the other dry shampoos I have tried leave my hair (I have black hair) looking ashy- this stuff brushes out with ease. It does have a strong smell which fades very quickly
I’ve used Tony & Guy dry shampoo in the past, very useful when travelling long-haul. I’m a brunette and don’t have any problem with white-ish spray as it “disappears” as I comb my hair.
A life changing product.
Try Bumble & Bumble’s colored dry shampoo.
Stila’s dry shampoo has a fabulous fragrance.
“emily Says:
Fine blonde hair can get by with baby powder.”
Emily, I have thick, wavy, ash brown hair and used cornstarch throughout the 70′s and 80′s. My darker-haired DD won’t give it a try, but my sister and used to dust our fingers with cornstarch and massage it in at the temples and the part. It worked great for the day you overslept, but knew you’d be able to shampoo it on the next one.
Hello!
What about the fragance? Is perdurable?
Regards,
Vivi
I have used several of the dry shampoo’s mentioned in the article, however I found Psst in a Walgreen’s drugstore and it worked as well as Oscar Blandi and way better than Bumble and Bumble. My hair is fine and Psst absorbed the oil, gave it some lift and didn’t feel as gunky as others So i guess they improved it.
I love using dry shapoo and have tried several brands. My problem is that I like to use it every other day, or even stretch my wash out to three days, and dry shampoo can be expensive!
So what I do most nights, is dust in some baby powder before bed. I have brown hair, so by morning, the white powdery look has disappeared. Also, I find my hair gets the nost greasy from tossing and turning in bed.. so this pretty much absorbs the oil through the night.
If for some reason I forget at night, then I will pour some baby powder onto a tissue, and pick it up with a very large, fluffy makeup brush (used just for this purpose), lift my hair in sections and dust it into the root. Then I kind of phloof my hair out with my hands and there is no white powder look doing it this way.
My hair has been so much healthier since I have stopped shampooing every day.. and my colour lasts a lot longer as well.
Kathleen – I’ll have to try that trick at night!
Ha: “It’s time you learned that, with the possible exception of the Internet, everything that’s worth inventing was created in the 70’s.”
So true. My hair can go a long time if it’s blown straight (naturally curly), but I’ve tried everything mentioned above, on whim, to extend blowouts further. A disaster each time.
I just bought KMS Makeover spray, which for all intents and purposes, is a dry shampoo. It really does revive your hair and stop it from feeling oily and lifeless if you’ve had to skip a wash. The only thing I don’t like is the texture – sort of dry and powdery.
Hair powder has been in use for centuries – talcs, corn starch, orris root. The innovation in the 1970s involved putting it in a spray can.
I’ve found corn starch much gentler than the aerosols – it really makes your hair silky.
i am currently loving ‘bianca breeze’ by principessa. it smells lovely, works great in between shampoos or when one has over done it with styling products. it contains corn starch (not talc, yippee!), silica, scent, aloe juice, chamomile and calendula extracts. yummy!
Perhaps you meant punctuation mark, not punction.
Cornstarch is cheaper than any of those dry shampoos and works just as well. Rub a little into your roots and brush out. When I use it (not THAT much i swear!), it gives my hair a lot of body, actually.
T3 360 Refresh Volumizing Dry Shampoo 3.3 oz (colors also available for those of us who aren’t blonde)
THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST-SMELLING AND BEST-WORKING DRY SHAMPOO ON THE MARKET.
If you are looking for something cheaper (T3 is pretty pricey), I find the Psssst brand spray FOR BRUNETTES (brown color instead of white) is very comparable for $6.99. You can order it online or, if you’re lucky, your local drugstore is has caught on to the dry-shampoo trend & will have it in stock.
When I was 11 years old, I had some serious surgery that left me unable to get my hair washed for a long time. This was in 1945. At that time, there was a dry shampoo with a terible odor in powder form. You poured some on your hair like talc and brushed it out.
Left your hair with a whitish glow and I do not remember if it was clean or not.
USE AVON MARK MEGA VOLUME NEXT DAY SPRAY. The stuff is amazing. its like a light wet hairspray that removes buildup and makes your hair smell soo good and have tons of volume. it does not drench your hair, just refreshes it. i use it all the time and forget i didnt shampoo. its FiVE BUCKS on Avon.com. trust me!
I wanted to try a dry shampoo for the first time, so I just went with the inexpensive Psssst! in case I hated it, but I really really really like it. I’m probably going to try the Tigi Rockaholic Dirty Secrets dry shampoo next to see if the professional brand works better than the drugstore brand. I found that if I overuse it, it does leave a slight film on my very dark brown hair, but I’m sure any of the tinted products would solve this problem.
I have tried a couple of different kind of spray-on dry shampoo and not had much luck. They are messy, and its a little like spraying hair spray on dirty hair.
I have been looking for a dry shampoo that is actually powder. Baby powder works well except for the smell and the color. Doesn’t someone make colored powder that doesn’t smell like baby butt?
I love dry shampoo….my all time favorite is by Sebastian Hair Products but they discontinued it!! It has a nice smell which disappears as the day goes on and it is not a powder….i wish they would bring it back!!! I may have to try some of the others listed on her!
I swear by Bumble and Bumble’s dry shampoo, but its too expensive! Have tried Oscar Blandi’s version and it was awful! It was white and made me look like I had bad dandruff!
i almost bought psssst! until i was reading the directions on the back and it said not to get near a flame until it was completely dry in your hair. Not that I hang out around flames a lot, but Um, no thank you.
I have been using Shampowder for a long time. It’s definitely the best. I have tried a bunch of dry shampoos and Shampowder smells and works the best. much less expensive than some f the other brands.
I am a daily washer-I would like to be a every other day washer not only for convience but to see if my hair will look better in the long run. I hear so much about PH balance and not using sulfate’s in my hair that I’m concerened about losing my hair before I’m 40! I’ve tried the Balistine and it seems to work great-the spray is overwhelming and the smell is powerful but once brushed and pulled back I can live with it. I’m in the market to use others so thanks for the forum I can’t wait to try a few!
LoK Dry Shampoo is my choice. no powder base. check this commerical I found on them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh_6gD55gWc
I bought the rockaholic one and used it no more then three times and it’s pretty much empty. what a rip off as far as I’m concerned. looking for a cheaper product that can last a little longer!
I just bought the rockaholic dirty secrets dry shampoo last week after my stylist told me to stop washing my hair everyday. I really liked it a lot, it seems to work really well, but I agree that the bottle feels pretty empty already and I’ve only used it a couple times. For $18 it really wasn’t worth it. I’ll try the babypowder over night and see how that goes.
thank you Macey!!!! I did take your advice and buy the LoK Dry Shampoo and I luv it!!! the bottle has lasted me a while and as you mentioned, it did not build up at all. When I ordered it from their website, they included a big size sample of their serum. Rachel and Teri…I totally recommend it!
I had the SAME problem with the Rockaholic, I brought it back to Walmart where I had purchased it thinking there must have been a puncture in it. I traveled with my replacement and it leaked all through the plastic bag I had it in. For some reason it evaporates. I thought about writing to Tigi but haven’t gotten around to it. I’m going to try some of these others! Stay away from ROCKAHOLIC.
I just tried the cornstarch on my hair and it worked great! All I did was tap my fingertips in some to make a light coating. Then applied it to my scalp by parting my hair and tapping along the part. I have med-brown hair and cannot see any white residue.
I had my hair done about 3 weeks ago. my hairdresser said to go a few days between washing but I feel gross. so I bought Tigi at Beauty Brands and I didn’t like it. I tried to do different levels of product but if I do too much I feel this film on my hair and if I cut it down then my hair don’t feel clean. I looked at the Lok website http://lokcolor.com/ but I don’t see anything about no powder base. since I didn’t like this feeling with Tigi I am thinking I might try something like Lok.
Not washing your hair for three days disgusts me. Being someone who has an ultra-low threshold for perceiving scents, let me tell you, you think no one notices that you haven’t washed your hair in three days, but I do. I smell it ALL the time following behind people anywhere I go. Just wash you hair, geez. Especially if you have oily skin and therefore an oily scalp, it smells even more. Even if you can’t smell it, don’t think no one else can smell it, and loading on perfume might cover the smell, but that’s just as offensive to anyone who is sensitive to scents and doesn’t want to smell your perfume from across a room.
Dry shampoo doesn’t clean your hair, it makes your hair LOOK less dirty by sticking polymers and starches on the hair. Basically it puts even MORE gunk on your hair than just the oil and dirt that got there from the day.
I LOVE Big Sexy Hair Volumizing Dry Shampoo!! it does not contain talc. I wash my hair at night and in the morning spray this wonderful product on my fine hair. It gives my hair soooo much volume!! It is awesome!!
How many ounces is the LoK dry shampoo?
The best way to do it is to make it yourself. THe recipie that I like is equal parts UNSWEETENED coacoa, powdered cinnamon, Baking Powder or Soda, and rice or fine white flour. It fits with just about any hair. Put it in and wait a minute, then shake out most of it and brush out the rest. You can spend five or six minutes on this. It works because the baking cocoa and powder make grease absorbable for the rice flour, which soaks it up. It doesn’t just hide the grease, it cleans it out. You can add tapioca starch and powdered Vitamin E and Zinc to condition, as well.
Has anyone tried the new Salon Grafix invisible dry shampoo and invisible dry conditioner?
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