Anyone ever put fabric cond on hair???

purpleivy

Judi wrote: »

I have often wondered what the difference was between hair conditioner and fabric conditioner but ive never been brave enough to try it on my hair.

I regularly use mayonaise on my hair as a conditioner but if you try it, make sure you cover your head after its been applied. If you dont it dries out and it takes a hell of a lot of rinsing to get out of your hair.

Another tip. I have dark brown fairly long hair with loads of bleached blonde slices in. As you can imagine, the ends of my hair are very fragile. I find hand cream (at the moment i am using The Body Shop Body Butter) is brilliant on the ends before its washed. I applied some body butter on my ends a few minutes ago and i will wash it out in the morning. Go easy on the amount though, you only need a bit to work through the ends.

I dont' think it's so much that anything that will go wrong, but you may find it irritates your skin. This may sound bizarre, as fabcon is designed for a product that sits on your skin after it is washed. I can only relate what happened to me.

I wear a wig and being short of conditioner, I rinsed my 'hair' in fab con instead of my expensive stuff. When I got warm later on when wearing the wig, my skin got really irritated. I wanted to scratch through the skin on my scalp! I can only put it down to the fact that my scalp skin is sensitive, it gets warm and this may give more a reaction. I had problems also using 'hotel' shampoo on my hair. I do have some hair (not that much !), so still use hair products.

I've never been a person to be 'sensitive' as far as cosmetics etc are concerned, I can use practically anything. With my hair I use only a couple of things that I know are OK, also always the same wig shampoo and hair shampoo.

PS. If I put my hair in the tumble dryer it would melt :eek:

mother_noah

I tried it once but my hair looked so bad when it dried I had to wash it again.

Sassers

I got lots of freebie Surf fabric conditoner samples through the door recently - used one of them mixed with the intensive conditioner after I dyed my hair. Worked a treat. Left it on for about a hour though....my hair was really nice soft and shiny afterwards

JennyW_2

potsofmoney_(I_wish) wrote: »

The reason I ask is that in a mag I'm reading, Gok Wan from the naked tv programme says he swears by Comfort as a budget alternative to a £145 over night intensive hair conditioner. Now I've put all sorts on my hair including eggs and beer, but I've never heard of this one.

I'm going to give it a go on my OH's hair as mine is a bit delicate at the mo and I'm worried it may fall out or something awful. We've decided not to use tesco value which is what I've got in my cupboard so I'm going to buy a small bottle. At least it will smell nice!

i think this is taking money saving to an extreme. Has anyone taken the time to find out what sort of chemicals are found in fabric softeners/tumble sheets? This is an example of a typical fabric softener MSDS: Health hazards are listed on section 6.

http://www.fsafood.com/msds/vault/001/001096.pdf

Typical chemicals found are:

Alpha-Terpineol
Benzyl Acetate
Benzyl Alcohol
Camphor
Chloroform
Ethyl Acetate
Limonene
Linalool
Pentane

Justamum

potsofmoney_(I_wish) wrote: »

The reason I ask is that in a mag I'm reading, Gok Wan from the naked tv programme says he swears by Comfort as a budget alternative to a £145 over night intensive hair conditioner. Now I've put all sorts on my hair including eggs and beer, but I've never heard of this one.

£145!:eek:

potsofmoney_(I_wish) wrote: »

I'm going to give it a go on my OH's hair as mine is a bit delicate at the mo and I'm worried it may fall out or something awful.

:rotfl::rotfl:But OH's hair can fall out? :rotfl:. My OH's hair fell out years ago :rolleyes::rotfl:

Justamum

JennyW wrote: »

Alpha-Terpineol
Benzyl Acetate
Benzyl Alcohol
Camphor
Chloroform
Ethyl Acetate
Limonene
Linalool
Pentane

Formaldehyde too in fabric conditioner (aka embalming fluid!:eek:)