rach 1 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 How often do you wash your hair? Mine gets washed every day. I was surprised to find an (older) friend of mine telling me she washed her hair just once every 5 days or so. I couldn't imagine that. While we're on hairy subjects.... why does shampoo tangle my hair but conditioner doesn't? (I'm not very busy today!) Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Conditioner contains djinns (invisible spirits) that work very quickly to untangle girls' hair. Unfortunately djinns can also get into their heads and give them strange, irrational ideas. Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 I wash mine every day. Recently I've grown my hair quite long and it does take a lot of time but I can't imagine not washing it for 5 days?! yuck. (Not that I'm dirty or anything you understand!) Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 heheh, I think my ex must have spent half the day injecting herself with them djinns. I wash my hair everyday, else it feels 'dirty'. Its just a habit, like showering every morning, that makes me very agitated when it can't be fulfilled. But I cant use conditioner because it just feels like Ive put oil in my hair or something. Whenever I have used conditioner Ive been stood there for 20mins trying to 'rinse it out' but I think actually its supposed to feel greasy like that. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 I remember a conversation between an engineer and some translation ladies at my last company on exactly this subject. The engineer averred that conditioner affects the balance of ions in your hair . Whereas detergents in shampoo make the hairs + and mutually attractive, conditioner makes them - and mutually repellent, or some such sorcery. He was well up on ions and things, knowing a thing or two about Piezoelectric printer heads. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 That reminds me of this thing my mum has in her house called an 'ionizer'. It cost about 50 pounds and it supposedly recharges the ions in the air from negative to positive or some nonsense. In fact, I am sure it is just an empty black plastic box with a blinking LED on it. It weighs nothing and runs on 2 AA batteries. You can only applaud the inventor of such a contraption. Link to post Share on other sites
guzzlers-baps 0 Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 I know this, I know this! Here's the deal. Hair is made of a protein called keratin-san. Keratin-san is itself a chain of amino acid molecules. A high proportion of the amino acids in keratin-san are negatively charged and so perfectly clean hair is negatively charged. Normal hair is coated with a layer of positively charged oil that results in a neutral charge overall. But when you apply negatively charged detergent in shampoo, this oil layer is stripped away. The mutual repulsion caused by all of the exposed negative charges results in your hair to clump erratically when wet and become flyaway when dry. Still with me? Hair conditioner contains positively charged molecules that form weak electrostatic bonds with the negative charges on your hair. This results in a thin layer of conditioner staying behind after you rinse, which in turn leaves your hair electrically neutral and tangle free once more. Cool, hey? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 And some daft bastards try to wash that off because their hair naturally clumps erratically, and that's just the way they expect it to be right? guzzlers-baps, do you know about djinns too? Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 "Cool, hey?" Yes. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 Wow! Learned something new today! Science is cool. Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites
ncorrenti 0 Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 I usually wash my hair every second day. I can sometimes push it to three by wearing it up in a ponytail. Link to post Share on other sites
yoroshiku onegai shimasu 2 Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 Every day, I hate the feeling if I don't wash it. Link to post Share on other sites
amandanism 0 Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 every second day for me too. i dont have time to blow dry it everyday. Link to post Share on other sites
snowbender 3 Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 I'm very partial to ponytails. Mine gets washed every day. No smelly hair for me! Let's science. Link to post Share on other sites
Shan3007 0 Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 I wash my locks every second day too, i have a friend that's a hair dresser & she told me you should leave it up to 3 days to keep the natural oils in it, but who knows... There's so many different beauty tips floating around. Hey how much would you lovely ladies spend on a descent shampoo/conditioner?? Some of my friends spend a motza... Link to post Share on other sites
ncorrenti 0 Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 I'm not too fussy about shampoo and conditioner but I do try and buy the silicone-free stuff, which costs about $10 a bottle. Link to post Share on other sites
igloo 3 Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 A motza?? Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted March 29, 2006 Author Share Posted March 29, 2006 Thanks for the science lesson. (Still don't understand but it sounds cool ) Are you accusing me of being irrational there Ocey-babes? Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 My hair (what there is of it) gets a quick wash every day. Doesn't take long Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 Everyday. I have short hair, so it doesn't take long time for me to wash out. Link to post Share on other sites
Shan3007 0 Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 MOTZA = expensive(Aussi slang) Ha Ha Link to post Share on other sites
egglesby 1 Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Same here. I only need a pea-sized blob of shampoo to clean all of mine Link to post Share on other sites
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