Does anyone remember?

[4getmenot]

Reading the shampoo post I starting wondering if there was conditioner when I was younger. I dont remember mum washing my hair with it, just shampoo. And I'm sure that the combing of my hair wouldnt have been as painful as I remember? Was it just coz I was a child or was conditioner not about then? (about 25 years ago) I also remember going swimming with the school and I'd forgot my shampoo and gave me some of hers and it was 2 in one. First time I's used conditioner.

[annie0000]

We never used conditioner as kids, I can still feel the tangles getting combed out now! It was usually vosene or head and shoulders shampoo. My mum would sometimes give us a vinegar or lemon juice rinse to make it shine (beer as well if she could get hold of it) . I have two boys, but they always either use a 2 in 1 or I get them to condition their hair depending on how long it is. Youngest's hair goes like a bush when it is longer.

[Mosaic]

My mum was dead against hair washing as 'you'd catch your death of cold', and a bar of fairy soap - the dark green kitchen soap - was used, occasionally and with lots of cursing as I had long hair. There was a tube of Vitapointe - like ladies brylcreem I suppose - which could be used to stcik my fringe in place. Often I used fairy liquid as shampoo and as bubble bath....But washing hair any more often than once a week was asking for a row as it 'wasn't needed'. I think this was quite a widely-held view at that time, 1960s. I don't ever recall my mum washing her hair - she went to the hairdressers once a week for a shampoo and set, with a helmet-like perm every so often.

When I got to about 11 I used to buy little sachets of shampoo from the chemists, and me and my friends used to try all sorts, but I don't remember regularly buying conditioner until I was older, maybe the early 1970-s. I certainly remember the other girls in my class at school becoming frantic hairwashers in the early 1970s - it was when 'feathered' haircuts came in and I think the hair products industry went through a boom with all the Bowie-inspired cutting and colouring, and then the bubble perms that followed.

[Misky]

I think it must have been the mid seventies when my mam used "Quick Touch" Conditioner on my hair - I think it did actually make the combing session a little less painful.

[4getmenot]

these stories are great!

[ttfn]

I can remember the days when the hairdresser would charge extra for a tiny bottle of setting lotion - quite the optional extra.

[LoftyLottie]

And now look at you ttfn, glamour personified in your very flattering hairnet!!

How are you, by the way xx

[askyourgran]

Didn't they use sugar water as setting lotion?
I remember having my hair washed in Derbac soap because my sister came home with nits. That was awful.

[ttfn]

Friday night is Amami night!
Before dandruff shampoos were retailed the recommended way to deal the problem was to rinse your hair in a mixture of warm water and dettol. Nice.

[ttfn]

Hi Lottie - I have to keep what is left of the grey under control now. I was given a bottle of Grecian 2000 when I was in my late 20's, but I retaliated with a packet of Sage and Onion - gift wrapped as I am pure class ;o)

[ttfn]

Sorry Lottie - not too bad thanks x

[LoftyLottie]

I used to bleach my hair from age about 16. Can't remember what the stuff was but it was a powder you mixed with peroxide. It stung. Funnily enough the colour was really good and my hair never got out of condition and was very shiny. Must have been a miracle. I did dye it with a red dye on top of the bleach once too. That look wasn't so great!!

[ttfn]

Red panda Lottie?

[welshlibranr]

Still having my hair coloured!.........know I'm probably very grey now, haven't seen my natural colour for years now, and do not want to!....................lol...................
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[LoftyLottie]

Yep!!

Used to iron my bleached hair too. Do you remember 'Twinkle' Black eyes and bleached blonde ironed hair!!

[mike11111]

When I was put in a children's home in 1957 (mercifully only for 6 weeks), we were bathed every night in a mixture of warm water and Dettol, two by two in the bath. Can still smell the Dettol to this day.

[LoftyLottie]

It was quite common to put dettol in the bath water back then. I remember my Mum putting in my bath - either that or salt!!

[ttfn]

There is a reel of cine film in the loft of me washing my hair under an outside stand pipe in N Wales on a wet morning (is there any other sort there?) wearing just my nightie - no slippers but standing on a large slab of Snowdonia slate. You see mike - I wasn't a rich kid either ;o)

[LoftyLottie]

Talking of baths, did others have a parafin heater brought into the bathroom on bath night. I remember the smell and I loved it. An old gas geyser over the bath to warm up the water and the little parafin heater. Then wrapped up in a big towel and dried off in front of the coal fire. Nice memories actually.

[NazNomad]

ttfn, YouTube, or it didn't happen, lol :-)

...and no, there is no other type of morning here.

[LoftyLottie]

Did you live in a cave then ttfn?