# Worst shampoo additives ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-shampoo-additives-ever/437492 "2008-02-13T20:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-shampoo-additives-ever/437492/21 "2008-02-14T16:29:34Z")
[QUOTE=Flander] You forgot semen. [/QUOTE] That was the main ingredient! Why do you think they called it “Spurt?” > [@MacTech](#): > > But does it have Electrolytes? it’s what hair craves… Not here. It conflicted with the Diazepam and caused psychotic breaks resulting in the inability to style your hair in any way that didn’t make you look like Don King or Patti LaBelle. > [@MacTech](#): > > Brawndo Shampoo is better, and it comes with a free Starbucks coupon Good for one free Wash 'n Brew? I understand the Caramel Macchiato treatment makes your hair feel like sex. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-shampoo-additives-ever/437492/22 "2008-02-14T17:41:10Z")
[QUOTE=JR Brown] **fructose and glucose** , the two components of that rare and costly substance, table sugar. [/QUOTE] Fructose is not a component of table sugar. Table sugar is a disacharide whose two monosacharides are glucose and glucose (yup, two of the same). Fructose is an isomer of glucose: they have the exact same composition but the atoms are organized differently. Our body has enzimes that can turn fructose (sort of “useless” for us except as a source of glucose) into glucose; their energetic value is the same, but having to go through the isomerization process means that fructose is a “slower” sugar than glucose… it takes longer to go from the stomach to wherever the energy is needed, be it working cells or storage. The process can also happen at much-slower speeds in pH-extreme environments. Are we having fun with biochemistry yet? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-shampoo-additives-ever/437492/23 "2008-02-14T17:44:56Z")
[QUOTE=Nava] Fructose is not a component of table sugar. Table sugar is a disacharide whose two monosacharides are glucose and glucose (yup, two of the same). Fructose is an isomer of glucose: they have the exact same composition but the atoms are organized differently. [/QUOTE] Huh. I freely admit you know more about this stuff than I do, but I thought table sugar was glucose and fructose. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose) and Alton Brown, whose show on fudge-making I watched last night, seem to agree. Are there different forms of sucrose? ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-shampoo-additives-ever/437492/24 "2008-02-14T19:28:13Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] Huh. I freely admit you know more about this stuff than I do, but I thought table sugar was glucose and fructose. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose) and Alton Brown, whose show on fudge-making I watched last night, seem to agree. Are there different forms of sucrose? [/QUOTE] No, Nava is wrong. The usual form of glucose-glucose disaccharide is maltose. BTW, glucose is a pyranose (6-member ring) while fructose is a furanose (5-member ring). ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-shampoo-additives-ever/437492/25 "2008-02-14T19:51:50Z")
[QUOTE=Nametag] No, Nava is wrong. The usual form of glucose-glucose disaccharide is maltose. BTW, glucose is a pyranose (6-member ring) while fructose is a furanose (5-member ring). [/QUOTE] Thanks, sugar. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-shampoo-additives-ever/437492/26 "2008-02-14T20:18:56Z")
[QUOTE=Elysium] Try [www.lush.com](http://www.lush.com). I adore their shampoos and bath products for just these reasons. I don’t need those crazy chemicals gunking up my hair and giving me allergic reactions. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but, my shampoo is under $5. Yours is high enough that I can’t state the number without laughing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-shampoo-additives-ever/437492/27 "2008-02-14T20:24:43Z")
[QUOTE=fluiddruid] Yeah, but, my shampoo is under $5. Yours is high enough that I can’t state the number without laughing. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Wow, I just looked. Jesus H. Christ. :eek: And what am I missing here? The main sudsy/cleansing ingredient in these shampoos is still sodium lauryl sulfate, the same main ingredient in every shampoo from $0.99 White Rain to $5.99 Pantene to these $28 shampoos. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-shampoo-additives-ever/437492/28 "2008-02-14T20:34:11Z")
-ground glass -nightingale poop -ricin -paper mill slurry -shoe polish -kangaroo pouch smegma -habañero extract -DDT -Sardinian Maggot Cheese -powdered toast ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-shampoo-additives-ever/437492/29 "2008-02-14T20:58:01Z")
I was wrong about the table sugar, but not about fructose and glucose being both hexasacarides… unless Spanish fructosa and English fructose are different animals, which could be. Actually, here, [wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose) has a drawing. Count the Cs: the picture has a 5-ring but one vertice is the O; there are two hanging Cs. Total, 6 Cs. The ring structure of glucose and fructose is different - but that doesn’t make them not isomers! Isomers: two compounds which have the same elemental composition (in this case, C[sub]6[/sub]H[sub]12[/sub]O[sub]6[/sub]), but with the atoms organized differently. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-shampoo-additives-ever/437492/30 "2008-02-14T21:07:12Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] -ground glass -nightingale poop -ricin -paper mill slurry -shoe polish -kangaroo pouch smegma -habañero extract -DDT -Sardinian Maggot Cheese -powdered toast [/QUOTE] Aren’t those the ingredients in a steam bun you buy on the street in Shanghai? ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-shampoo-additives-ever/437492/31 "2008-02-14T21:29:41Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] Aren’t those the ingredients in a steam bun you buy on the street in Shanghai? [/QUOTE] Can’t be. No cardboard or shop floor sweepings. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-shampoo-additives-ever/437492.md?page=1)