Not true: an interrupt occurs when the bottle is empty.
Cleaning products are not identical if you put dish soap in a dishwasher.
I think if your assertion were true the ingredients list for shampoo would be a lot shorter. Check it out - when you get home, compare your dishwashing soap’s list to your shampoo’s list. All the silly ingredients on shampoo are usually just rolled up into “…, …, fragrances, …” and the list still takes up about a third of the label. Shampoo is goosed up with all kinds of preservatives, humectants, and other chemicals on top of the detergents themselves.
You can argue that plain detergent is almost as good and your case would be more sound. But I think your distressed seatmate was in the right, if you phrased it then the way you have here.
Back when the instructions appeared, most people didn’t wash their hair every day. In fact, women would go to the beauty salon once a week and get their hair washed and set and sometimes permed and colored, too. They didn’t wash their hair at home if they were in a certain social class, they just had it done at the salon. They also used a LOT more hair product, and the products were heavier. In fact, a lot of hair products were oil-based.
I got my hair cut quite short a little over a year ago, and I’ve found that I don’t need nearly as much shampoo as I used to. And I never need to lather up twice.
Obligatory No-Poo reference: You don’t need to use any shampoo or soap on your hair, and then replace oils with conditioner. Just scrub your scalp with your fingers under warm water. It’s a lot cheaper, too.
Or if you’re a typical male, you make that $1.57 bottle of shampoo last for 6 months.
Actually here I can often purchase VO-5 and Suave for .99 when there’s a sale on.
I recall several years ago, reading a Consumer Reports testing of various shampoos, and they threw a dish detergent (it might have been Dawn) into the testing as well. And the detergent fared above average.
I was not able to find that report on line to prove my memory, but I did find this very question being discussed here in GQ in 2008: Why don’t people understand that all shampoo is just scented detergent?
Generally, most people should only use shampoo once a week. Going “no-poo” is a bit much, but if it works for you..
Btw, when you brush your teeth, a glob about the size of a pea is all that is needed. And, if you toothpaste has sodium laurel sulfate in it, it is not really good for oral hygene.
Whenever I’ve paid attention to a shampoo bottle, it read “…repeat as necessary.”. I imagine they could mean “repeat daily”. If you use shampoo twice per shower, that’s on you.
When I was a child, (yes, I’m that old) most of the people in my immediate circle didn’t wash their hair but twice a month. We didn’t have indoor plumbing until I was 7.
Washing twice then was necessary.
Do you not use soap on the rest of your body either?
Actually, it is best not to- just in the groin, feet and armpits.
I just washed my hair and thought to take note of the instructions on the shampoo bottle. It said, “Lather and rinse well with water.” Nothing about repeating the procedure.
Mostly, I don’t. Much of my skin is very dry, only my face is a little oily so I just rub it with my hands. I will wash my hands with soap before performing patient care, and of course after working on the car and cleaning the litter box. I wash before cooking, too.
Years ago I figured out that my skin doesn’t like soaps or shampoos, any hair care products, or fragrances. You have to find what works for your body and not what the commercials are pushing.
Checking both my bottles of shampoo (one lives in each bathroom). I have two different varieties of Pantene, Flat to Volume Fine and Color Preserve Volume. Both were purchased after we moved into this apartment in late June. Neither label mentions “repeat”.
I tried that for a few weeks once, and my hair was greasy and didn’t smell very good. I could have probably started dread locks if I had wanted. I shampoo daily/every other day and now my hair always looks fabulous. Straight, shiny, and soft. My hair is the kind of hair that shampoo was made for.
So, other people actually read instructions.
Huh.
Is it showering? If you’re in a bath, you have all the time you need to work the shampoo into your wet hair. You could even let it sit for a few minutes, then dunk your head under water to rinse.
Under a shower, unless you keep your head out of the water jet, the shampoo washes out of your hair almost as fast as you put it in.
I use hair oil or hair gel on my not-so-long hair everyday. The first time when I lather, I can still feel stickiness in hair while and after I rinse. When I repeat the procedure, I get clean hair as I want. IMHO, the first lather and rinsing removes most of the oil but not completely no matter how much shampoo is used. Instead of using 6 to 8 ml of shampoo in one go, I use 3 to 4 ml in first and other 2 to 3 ml to repeat. Even though shampoo is less in repeat process, the lather is more and better.