Nothing has such an overpowering, penetrating stink as cat pee! You got any un-neutered males cats around? They’re the critters that want to mark everything with their signature aroma.
I remember the topic of conversation around here a couple of years ago about the length of your hair. If you haven’t cut it all off yet, now is the perfect time to do so. Hair is notorious for absorbing smells. When I was in high school I had a nice crop of perfectly straight, long hair. My friends and I enjoyed bowling on the weekends, and we often could not get an open lane until after midnight. By that time the leagues were done, and the entire bowling alley would be murky with cigarette smoke. We’d bowl a few lines, and then we’d get so slap-happy silly because it was so late, we’d all stagger out and go home.
It would be 2 AM or thereabout by the time I’d get in, and I still remember the nights I’d be dead on my feet asleep, but first I had to head to the kitchen sink to wash my hair! I tried to go on to bed, but my hair stunk so bad from smoke I was almost barfing on my pillow case. One night I tried to just spray my hair with Lysol spray (remember the commercial for Lysol spray where the Happy Housewife sprayed the room to get rid of the smell from the “old fogie’s stogie?”). The only thing worse than cigarette smoke smell in your hair is cigarette smoke smell PLUS Lysol spray!
My recommendation for your Euw de Peeyu hair smell is a thorough shampoo with dish soap. Today I use Dawn soap, but in my high school years, Lux Liquid dish soap did a fine job! Do the first sudsing with the dish soap, and the second sudsing can be with any of your favorite foofoo-smelling shampoos. You should be neat-and-pretty then!
Ooo! Best smelling foofoo hair shampoo from my college days was Clairol Herbal Essence!
Well, no my hair is still long. Much to Ivy and the Lil’wrekker’s chagrin.
I washed my hair with Mr.Wreks dandruff shampoo first. Almost smelled worse than cat bodily odors. Then I washed with Pantene. The mix nearly offed me.
Ivy said if I came out with an odor she was spritzing me with Febreze.
So I washed again with some baby shampoo I have. And added conditioner.
My cat will bring me live or variously living on the spectrum to dead mice and sort of toss them at my head [and then the living ones run or hobble away and some of those little buggers are fast!]
My go to shampoo if something yucky gets i my hair is actually Dr Bronner’s hemp tea tree peppermint soap.
Found it! Holy frick, what a story! He married the illegitimate daughter of a nun. HIs wife later died in a psych hospital. He himself was committed to a psych hospital but escaped three times.
Here’s what Cecil said:
Bronner wants to convince mankind of the virtues of the “All-One-God-Faith,” which, together with the “Moral ABC,” his answer to the Ten Commandments, will unite the human race. The details of this can be a bit hard to follow. For example: “Replace half-true Socialist-fluoride poison & tax-slavery with full-truth, work-speech-press & profitsharing Socialaction! All-One! So, help build 4 billion Hannibal wind-power plants, charging 96 billion battery-banks, powering every car-factory-farm-home-monorail & pump, watering Babylon-roof-gardens & 800 billion Israel-Milorganite fruit trees, guarded by Swiss 6000 year Universal Military Training,” etc.
OK, maybe he wasn’t wrapped too tight, but I remember buying a bottle of Dr. Bronner’s Castile shampoo when I was in college and liking it (and trying to parse out the rambling on the bottle), and apparently Bronner was very successful. I’ll pick up a bottle of the tea tree shampoo if I can find it.
Thanks! Maybe I can order it online from WalMart. Actually getting to a WalMart would take require two bus rides each way. Of course, I could spend the time trying to figure out what Milorganite fruit trees are.
ETA: Oh. Milorganite is a fertilizer. I can’t figure out the Israeli-Milorganite fruit trees, though.
My Target carries a range of Dr Bronner’s, as does my local neighborhood hardware store (Ace). TJ Maxx often has Bronner’s mixed into their toiletries, as does my big regional grocery chain. It holds on the bottom row of Target, for some reason, hard to see.
Natural foods stores such as Whole Foods and Natural Grocers do too, but you’ll pay a premium there.
I was at our local dog park recently and while there a tank truck pulled up to empty the port a potties in the parking lot. We didn’t notice it until we all started looking around saying "What’s that smell?: I think people are as bad as animals.
They use Milorganite fertilizer for fruit trees because it’s non-burning and promotes root growth.
I couldn’t find anything about Israeli fruit trees associated with it.
But I didn’t search too much.
Unless the Milorganite itself is a fruit and from Israel.
Hmmm?
Interesting.
The problem isn’t that this means that it’s human shit; that’s dealt with in the treatment process. The problem is that this means it may also have other unpleasant contaminants, which aren’t.
I doubt that Dr. Bronner knew about the contaminants, though. He probably just thought it was proper recycling (which it would be, if shit, piss, and toilet paper were the only things people flushed down the john.)
