Little post-LHC life triumph

[cathair]

Depends on the shampoo for me. Sulphates I can get round my scalp pretty easily. Sulphate free ones, need a little more. Cocamidopropyl betaine based shampoos I need tons more. Starting to think sulphate free is just a false economy in some respects. I don't wash my hair very often, so when I do, I don't enjoy skimping on shampoo much.

[Puffer Fish]

I think it's a hair density thing, not a hair thickness thing.

...however, since I have both high density and medium/thick strands, I can't relate nor confirm any of our theories here. All I know is that for me, hotel size shampoos are more like 'two-shower' sizes 'cause that's about how long they last. They're good for emergency washes when visiting somewhere, but I definitely couldn't make it for months on end with just one.

[divinedobbie]

I don't have very dense hair but I definitely go through a bottle of shampoo in about two months...maybe three when I was stretching washes. What size bottle are we all talking about because mine tend to be approx 300 mL.

[Larki]

I don't use shampoo. But I go through a 22 oz bottle of conditioner about every month and a half. On the few occasions I've had to use shampoo (traveling, I didn't bother bringing my own S&C on the plane because it's a plane), I barely made a dent in the mini hotel shampoo bottle after four days, and went through three mini bottles of hotel conditioner (trying my best to be conservative with it, too)

[KittyBird]

I can sort of relate.. I dilute my sls/sles-free shampoo, so I only use around 1 tbls for each wash. I wash 2-3 times a week, and I think I've had my 300ml bottle for some 6 months now. If I didn't dilute it, I'd have to use palmfuls of shampoo too.

[tigress86]

Wow! I am going on a 2 week trip and I am worried if travel size shampoo and conditioner will be enough I don't use palmfuls of shampoo, the amount of shampoo I use is about the size of a 2 euro coin, but I always shampoo twice.

[Rosetta]

I normally use up a travel size (about 50 ml?) shampoo in two washes at most, and I have fine hair too Not to mention conditioner usage, I mean a standard 200 ml bottle lasts only about 2-3 washes for me...! Not very economical, or ecological... But I'm using shampoo bars mostly for now (also to reduce plastic usage), and even a sample size lasts ages!

(As an aside, I never understood why shampoo bottles are always a larger size than conditioners, it should totally be the other way round! )

[hanne jensen]

I can understand how a travel size bottle lasts so long. I too have fine hair and a lot of them. I dilute everything and squirt it directly on my scalp. I make a part down the middle from forehead to nape, squirt diluted poo, swish around and them make a part around ear level to the nape, squirt and swish. I have a small head. Tilt my head under the shower for a moment to help distribute the poo. leave the poo on my head while I wash face and decollage. It's possible. Shampoo lasts eternity for me.

[YvetteVarie]

I can also understand having shampoo last for ages. I have a bottle of shampoo I haven't used up in a year+ (500ml bottle). However, I tear through conditioner. The same size bottle conditioner lasts me 2 or 3 washes

[lapushka]

Not to mention conditioner usage, I mean a standard 200 ml bottle lasts only about 2-3 washes for me...! Not very economical, or ecological...

I use a 200ml bottle of conditioner in 2/3 washes as well. Their fault. They should make bigger bottles of conditioner.