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Reading the shampoo post I starting wondering if there was conditioner when I was younger. I dont remember mum washing my hair with it, just shampoo. And I'm sure that the combing of my hair wouldnt have been as painful as I remember? Was it just coz I was a child or was conditioner not about then? (about 25 years ago) I also remember going swimming with the school and I'd forgot my shampoo and gave me some of hers and it was 2 in one. First time I's used conditioner.
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We never used conditioner as kids, I can still feel the tangles getting combed out now! It was usually vosene or head and shoulders shampoo. My mum would sometimes give us a vinegar or lemon juice rinse to make it shine (beer as well if she could get hold of it) . I have two boys, but they always either use a 2 in 1 or I get them to condition their hair depending on how long it is. Youngest's hair goes like a bush when it is longer.
My mum was dead against hair washing as 'you'd catch your death of cold', and a bar of fairy soap - the dark green kitchen soap - was used, occasionally and with lots of cursing as I had long hair. There was a tube of Vitapointe - like ladies brylcreem I suppose - which could be used to stcik my fringe in place. Often I used fairy liquid as shampoo and as bubble bath....But washing hair any more often than once a week was asking for a row as it 'wasn't needed'. I think this was quite a widely-held view at that time, 1960s. I don't ever recall my mum washing her hair - she went to the hairdressers once a week for a shampoo and set, with a helmet-like perm every so often.
When I got to about 11 I used to buy little sachets of shampoo from the chemists, and me and my friends used to try all sorts, but I don't remember regularly buying conditioner until I was older, maybe the early 1970-s. I certainly remember the other girls in my class at school becoming frantic hairwashers in the early 1970s - it was when 'feathered' haircuts came in and I think the hair products industry went through a boom with all the Bowie-inspired cutting and colouring, and then the bubble perms that followed.
When I got to about 11 I used to buy little sachets of shampoo from the chemists, and me and my friends used to try all sorts, but I don't remember regularly buying conditioner until I was older, maybe the early 1970-s. I certainly remember the other girls in my class at school becoming frantic hairwashers in the early 1970s - it was when 'feathered' haircuts came in and I think the hair products industry went through a boom with all the Bowie-inspired cutting and colouring, and then the bubble perms that followed.
I used to bleach my hair from age about 16. Can't remember what the stuff was but it was a powder you mixed with peroxide. It stung. Funnily enough the colour was really good and my hair never got out of condition and was very shiny. Must have been a miracle. I did dye it with a red dye on top of the bleach once too. That look wasn't so great!!
Talking of baths, did others have a parafin heater brought into the bathroom on bath night. I remember the smell and I loved it. An old gas geyser over the bath to warm up the water and the little parafin heater. Then wrapped up in a big towel and dried off in front of the coal fire. Nice memories actually.
