# Dry shampoo **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 2, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dry-shampoo/639676 "2012-11-02T16:03:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dry-shampoo/639676/21 "2012-11-03T15:42:47Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I like Suave’s, mostly for camping Amusingly, in market research circles, “it’d be good for camping” is a synonym for “I’d never use it”. When we do focus groups on new products, if a consumer is struggling to think of when she’d actually use a product, we will frequently hear, “well, it might be good for camping.” Which, unless she camps _a lot_ (and, frankly, very few people camp a lot), means that she’d rarely, if ever, use the product, and is just trying to think of something nice to say about it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dry-shampoo/639676/22 "2012-11-03T16:23:03Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Amusingly, in market research circles, “it’d be good for camping” is a synonym for “I’d never use it”. > > When we do focus groups on new products, if a consumer is struggling to think of when she’d actually use a product, we will frequently hear, “well, it might be good for camping.” Which, unless she camps _a lot_ (and, frankly, very few people camp a lot), means that she’d rarely, if ever, use the product, and is just trying to think of something nice to say about it. 😃 That _is_ funny. 'Cause I spend, literally, thousands of dollars every year on Stuff for camping! I’m camping for 25 days out of July, a week in May, a week in August, another four or five long weekends throughout the year…all car/camper camping, where I can bring lots and lots of Expensive Stuff with me. 😃 But I get I’m an outlier, so it doesn’t make much sense to base marketing decisions on my feedback. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dry-shampoo/639676/23 "2012-11-03T22:55:19Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > That _is_ funny. 'Cause I spend, literally, thousands of dollars every year on Stuff for camping! I’m camping for 25 days out of July, a week in May, a week in August, another four or five long weekends throughout the year…all car/camper camping, where I can bring lots and lots of Expensive Stuff with me. 😃 But I get I’m an outlier, so it doesn’t make much sense to base marketing decisions on my feedback. We’ve always said that the only time “it’d be good for camping” would _not_ be damning with faint praise would be if we were actually doing research on camping supplies. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dry-shampoo/639676/24 "2012-11-04T15:17:24Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > We’ve always said that the only time “it’d be good for camping” would _not_ be damning with faint praise would be if we were actually doing research on camping supplies. 😉 Only for noobs. When you’ve been camping as long as this creaky old lady, the camping supply aisle becomes foreign lands. Too expensive, too unti-taskery, too specialized. I spend those thousands of dollars at Target and the dollar store, mostly, and haven’t been in camping goods in 10 years, except for new air mattresses. 😉 But back to dry shampoo…I picked up some B2B last night 'cause they didn’t have any Suave. Works equally well, but I’m not sure about the scent on this one. I don’t immediately hate it, it just seems…off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dry-shampoo/639676.md?page=1)