by Makoli
September 6, 1998
Well, a small pebble of
reality cracking, yet NOTHING is insignificant in this world of ours where
toothpastes that actually damage your teeth are advertised by
"beautiful" smiling models with false teeth. Enjoy!
I didn't actually crack
the shampoo scam, all I did was write this. But as with any other protected
thing, at least somebody knows the truth all along.
The truth here is that
shampoo's bad for your hair. It cleans out dirt, but also the oil that makes
your hair shiny and strong. However shampoo's sold as something your hair
really needs, and the truth is suppressed.
There are several common
sorts of soapy things. They attract oils by electric charge, allowing the oil
to be emulsified with the water. For some reason, these cleaners are themselves
made from fats. Soap is made from animal or vegetable oil, and detergent is
made from mineral oil. Detergents can be made more powerful. Shampoo is
detergent, just like dish washing detergent, bathroom cleaner, and engine block
cleaner.
People used to use soap
to wash their hair, as well as their dishes, clothes and bathrooms (and horses,
before there were engines.) Soap was better suited to washing hair, because it
didn't remove so much of the oils that are naturally in hair.
But the water supply
slowly changed. It's now generally more alkaline, which people call hard water.
When this started happening, soap didn't work so well. The chemicals which make
water alkaline make soap stop lathering well, and form insoluble scum (eg. the
ring in the bath.) So soap got less and less effective for all its cleaning
uses. I guess the water was always pretty alkaline in some places, so soap was
never an ideal cleaner. Around the beginning of the twentieth century,
household detergents became available. Detergents have no problem with alkaline
water, so they were really popular. They soon became cheaper than soap, too.
So that's why people
stopped using soap for almost everything, and started using detergents.
Detergents are excellent cleaners for most uses.
If you've tried using
soap to wash your hair, you probably know how your hair goes all rough and
tangly. This is worse if your water's harder (more alkaline.) I moved recently,
and suddenly started having problems using soap in my hair. The problem is that
hair reacts to acids and alkalis.
Each hair has little
scales, like scales on a snake or shingles on a roof. Acid makes the scales lie
down flat, which makes your hair shiny and smooth. (Ever heard that lemon juice
is good for your hair?) Alkali makes the scales stand up, which makes your hair
look dull and feel rough and tangly. Therefore hard water, which is common
these days, makes it harder to wash your hair. If you use soap to wash your
hair in hard water, then the combination of your hair's scales standing up and
the soap forming scum makes your hair into a terrible mess. Then, since your
hair's all tangled and rough, it's impossible to rinse out all the soap, which
makes it look terrible.
Shampoo, being
detergent, can rinse out of your hair fine even in alkaline water. That's its
only good point. Its fundamental, but covered up, bad point is that it's very
harsh, and damages your hair permanently. Conditioner was soon introduced as
people noticed that shampoo sucked the oils out of their hair dry and left it
all dry and brittle. Conditioner puts artificial oils in your hair, and they
stay there just long enough so that you don't associate the damage to your hair
with the shampoo that caused it.
You have to wash your
hair every day, not because it always gets dirty so fast but because the oils
from the conditioner don't last and have to be replenished. Conditioner wasn't
used until shampoo came about.
But the real cheat in
shampoo is when it's sold as being especially good for your hair. Expensive
shampoos are in a way better, but only because the conditioner that comes with
them is better at covering up the damage done by the shampoo. The actual
shampoo itself is pretty much the same as any cheap shampoo. The professional
formula, which will nourish your hair and make it grow more healthy, with
vitamins and natural nutrients, gentle seaweed extracts, jojoba oil…
Remember that your
hair's dead. That exposes half of shampoo advertising as lies. Remember that
shampoo is just detergent. That shows that most of the remaining half is lies
too. Remember that the oils your hair needs come naturally out of your scalp,
as they've been doing for thousands of years before conditioner was invented.
When you think about it, nothing that is claimed about shampoo and conditioner
is true.
In a way, we really do
need conditioner, as advertising implies. But the real reason why we need it is
because our hair gets damaged by shampoo. This is just another case of using
lies to help a bad product (shampoo) gain dominance over a good product (soap),
then introducing another product (conditioner) to compensate for the bad
product's faults, and then tricking people into accepting huge price increases
once they forget the good product.
The only good thing
about shampoo is that it doesn't work any worse in hard water.
Does that ever get
mentioned in advertising? The rest is lies, to fool you into paying $10 for a
$1 bottle of perfumed detergent.
So in summary, shampoo
had a legitimate claim as an alternative for soap. But now it's not sold by
that claim, it's sold by lies. Soap's better for your hair, and you can still
use it if you compensate for hard water.
Source:
This document is provided for reference purposes only and not necessarily reflect the opinion of bynaturael’s team . Train your mind to test every thought and keep on searching the final truth that satisfies the conscience inside you.
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