# Hair Tonic **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-tonic/564835 "2010-12-20T14:22:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-tonic/564835/1 "2010-12-20T14:22:53Z")
Vitalis Wildroot Vaseline Brylcreem Suave Fitch ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-tonic/564835/2 "2010-12-20T14:48:54Z")
Just to explain the motivation, there was a thread/post not too long ago, but long enough that I haven’t been able to find it, about hat hair and why men didn’t have the problem when everybody was wearing hats. Hair tonic. Name some brands. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-tonic/564835/3 "2010-12-20T21:33:14Z")
VO5 Hairdressing ---
**Author:** ![Vorpal\_Blade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9de0a6/32.png) [@Vorpal\_Blade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vorpal_Blade)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-tonic/564835/4 "2010-12-21T17:06:02Z")
WD-40 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-tonic/564835/5 "2010-12-21T17:18:01Z")
STP ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-tonic/564835/6 "2010-12-21T17:18:51Z")
The smell of Brylcreem is permanently imprinted on my brain. I can remember being little and Dad dressing up in nice slacks, starched shirt and sweater vest and the final touch, Brylcreem for his grey hair. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-tonic/564835/7 "2010-12-21T17:26:26Z")
It’s fun watching old movies where guys had their hair plastered down and they started to sweat and that goop dribbled down onto their forehead or onto their shirt. Victor Mature comes to mind. And then there’s that scene in _Raising Arizona_ where the brothers tunnel out of prison and wind up in a rest room with some pomade. Or _Oh, Brother. Where Art Thou?_ and Clooney’s quest for Dapper Dan (or whatever it was.) Flat top wax! ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-tonic/564835/8 "2010-12-22T00:50:38Z")
Don’t remember a brand “flat top wax.” But there was [Butch Wax](http://mike.blackledge.com/butchwax.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-tonic/564835/9 "2010-12-22T14:23:45Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Don’t remember a brand “flat top wax.” But there was [Butch Wax](http://mike.blackledge.com/butchwax.jpg) Not a brand as such. Just the concept. Mine was in a tube, maybe an inch in diameter, and worked like a lipstick. Pink. Smelled like [Gojo](http://www.gojo.com/united-states.aspx?sc_lang=en) I don’t remember if there was a similar treatment for ducktails.