Mid Brain muses:
Maybe it’s just me, but these old ads for vintage cosmetics always make me smile. For example, there are at least three things about this old ad that make me laugh:
1) The step-by-step picture diagram showing you how to comb your hair (in case you don’t have a mirror, I guess).
2) The fact that the product is in a GLASS bottle. (Wet shower + slippery foam + breakable glass bottle = trip to emergency room.)
3) The way they make such a big deal about the shampoo NOW! being available in a liquid, lotion form. What were they using before? Powdered shampoo?? Bar soap?? (Yeah, maybe they were, this ad is pretty old!)
On second thought, it’s funny how times change. Now we have Lush Cosmetics Solid shampoo bars!
What do YOU think? Do you experiment with different forms of shampoo? Do you like other weird ways to wash your hair? Leave a comment and come clean with the rest of the Beauty Brains community.
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I like Lush solid shampoo, but I wish there were a good way to store it. If you put it back in the tin it goes all soggy (like any soap bar would do).
I do love Lush solid shampoo, particularly for travel (no worrying about 3oz bottles, and no chance of it exploding all over your clothing!). I find that it’s not as moisturizing as liquid shampoo, but it does smell nice and it gets the job done. And the little cakes from Lush last FOREVER.
Romney: I do store my Lush shampoo in its tin, but always leave the tin open so that the shampoo can dry, unless I’m taking it with me that very moment. Once the shampoo cake has dried completely, the tin can be closed and the shampoo will stay solid. Allowing the shampoo to dry seems to be very important to its longevity!
I prefer to stick with liquid shampoo, though I do like to try different types. One month might be volume, the next serious damage repair. I’ll try different brands too but I usually end up going back to Panteen.
Given the age of the ad, most folks were likely using good old-fashioned bar soap to wash their hair. (And certainly not daily if they were)
Mid Brain mused:
“…2) The fact that the product is in a GLASS bottle. (Wet shower + slippery foam + breakable glass bottle = trip to emergency room.)…”
IMustBeOlderThanIThought replies:
The ads make me smile too, but back then women rarely washed their hair IN the shower. I remember watching my mother wash her hair by bending over the kitchen sink and telling her the shower worked better for hair! When we visited relatives I noticed the women did the same… my maternal aunt and both my maternal and paternal grandmothers, as well as my paternal GREATgrandmother washed their hair in the kitchen sink. I don’t think my paternal GREATgrandmother or my maternal grandmother ever showered in their entire lives! They took regular baths and always washed their hair in the sink. My mother and aunt (now 80 and pushing 80) have learned to adjust to washing their hair in the shower, but washing their hair in the sink lasted many, many years before they made the switch. My mother-in-law STILL takes baths and washes her hair separately! By the way, these are all “city folk” or suburbanites!
agreed abnout washing hair in the sink + taking baths for the older generation. That was even how I was raised to do it. It took a while before I adjusted to taking a shower instead, and MAN was it a lot easier!
I’m sometimes curious about other ways to wash my hair, but I’ve got about twenty-four thousand pounds of it, so I can’t afford to be too experimental. Solid bars don’t work for me, and the one and only time I tried dry shampoo, my hair ATE IT.
So I just stick with the devil’s cocktail (Pantene) and leave it at that. Works great.
My hair’s really thick and wavy though, so I can go without washing it for a long time. Up to two weeks, and it looks fine; I wear it up a lot. When I was in England and Wales a while back for that long, I just didn’t wash my hair. If I’d stayed longer, I just would have gone to a Boots and grabbed whatever they had and left what I didn’t use at the hostel.
My mom was a young woman in the late fifties/early sixties, and she usually didn’t wash her hair. She got it washed and set at the beauty shop once a week.
I have been washing my hair in the sink for a few years, since I figured out that when washing in the shower, the hot water dripping over my face aggravated my rosacea, seborrheic dermatitis, and flushing. I guess I’m just retro.
I totally forgot about the sink thing. That’s how mom used to do it before her back surgery. Even had a special attachment for the sink just to wash her hair. Now she kneels on the bathroom floor and leans over the tub. She can’t stand for very long because of the spinal stenosis. So showers are out.
She used to be a professional beautiction before she married. She has any number of “women who don’t wash their hair” stories. Especially one woman where the only time she washed it was at the beauty parlor. They’d actually have to scrape stuff off of her scalp while washing with their fingernails. So mom is very pro-washing at least twice a week. I wash every single day, no choice really. Mom hates that I do that but my scalp is just SO oily I can’t do it any other way.
Although I’m usually a liquid shampoo kind of gal, I just discovered Oscar Blandi dry shampoo. It works wonders!! Seriously, it is perfect to use when you don’t feel like washing and restyling your hair. Great way to give your hair a break from heat damage too!
My hair is so greasy that I can’t imagine NOT washing it at least every other day.
Lush bar shampoos come with tins? I didn’t know that. I was reading an article about the environment and their bar shampoo was recommended since they don’t require plastic bottles but if it comes with a tin then it seems just as wasteful.
I wash everyday and in the shower with liquid, but there’s nothing like a bar shampoo when you travel. Takes up less space, you don’t have to worry about breakage or spillage. I keep a few shampoo bar samples just for travel.
MoxieHart,
Lush sells tins for their shampoo bars, but I don’t believe the shampoo bars come IN tins already. It’s just a way to store it, and a tin is reusable with the new product, plastic bottles aren’t especially reusable since when you get new shampoo it will also be in a plastic bottle.
I am so happy I found Lush’s bar shampoos. I don’t personally use them, it takes too much time on my long curls. However, my husband won’t use anything that isn’t in bar form – before I found these he was using bar soap head to toe, face, hair and all. His skin was so dry before I found these, and thank goodness he smells like something other than Irish Spring!
lush is the star in my heaven. I have hair down to my hips and use nothing but lush. seanik is the best..karma komber is second, and the solid condition is amazing. even with hair as long as mine..four swipes of the shampoo bar gives me MASSES of lather! lush owns me…and I love it. (and when hubby won’t stop hugging me ’cause my hair smells delicious and is baby soft, I love it even more) the expense is worth it with awesome, super long lasting and eco friendly products!