Weirdest stuff/ product you put in your hair?

[Orange Queen]

To some people putting edible products (i.e. honey, avocado, cinnamon, etc.) in their hair seems weird. To me and from what I've seen on this board to many other people it's the norm.

Anyone ever try any products that are way out there? What were the results?

I just started using a pet shampoo. Yup. Not my proudest moment, but my hair seems to love it.
I was looking at pet shampoos, and made a comment to the sales clerk that the ingredients are better than anything I've seen in a human shampoo.
She told me that she uses a conditioner for pets.

I was going to try the shampoo anyways just going by the ingredients , but her telling me about the conditioner sold it to me :D

It's a 2-in-1, soap free, I can pronounce all the ingredients, claims that it's 70% organic, and smells nice.

Only thing I'm not sure of is that protein is listed as one of the ingredients (second last on the list though), but I figure I do protein treatments once in a while anyways.

Used it twice so far, and my hair is shiny, soft, manageable, and seems moisturized.

I'm not sure what prolonged use will do, but so far I'm liking the results.

Other weird stuff I put in my hair in the past-

- Crushed vitamin C tablets mixed with Dawn dish washing liquid (years ago to strip a bad dye job). Stripped the colour, but also stripped everything else possible out of my hair

-Diluted ink to take brassiness out (grade 7, no idea what we were thinking, but a whole bunch of us did it. Results... Not so good lol)

- Nail polish remover (also grade 7, see above)

So what was the weirdest thing you put in /done to your hair?

P.S.
(woof)

[MINAKO]

first off i find egg by faaar the weirdest, honey or cooking oils not so much.

Hmmm, i think the weirdest thing i personally used was ghee. And OMFG the smell lingered in my hair for days. My hair was really soft and shiny, but not worth it at all, really nauseating. I wanted to expiriment with deep conditioning and figured if its possible to something as smelly as garlic, ghee would be fine, but uhmm N.O.P.E (insert puke smiley here) Lol!!

[-Fern]

*raises hand* About three years ago I used the placenta hair masks (just twice, I think...)

[MINAKO]

*raises hand* About three years ago I used the placenta hair masks (just twice, I think...)

I use placenta serum on my face, lol. I think i already dropped a bomb telling people on here that purified snail mucus really help to undo giant tangles. BTw, both dont smell nasty at all. However , i guess these are still considered disgusting in most western countries. I for my part will never understand how cheese became a thing, lol.

[Ferryl]

I used egg, then when rising the water felt cool but apparently was not cold enough. ...so cooked egg in my hair. Bleeeh!

[ExpectoPatronum]

I used a mask made out of mayo and egg once. :/

ETA: I also used laundry detergent to help strip some dye out of my hair. It dried my hair out, but it wasn't anything a conditioner couldn't fix. My hair smelled like laundry though...I kind of liked it :run:

[PennyQuin]

The weirdest thing I have ever used in my hair is a kind of fruit called Noni.... smells like vomit, taste like vomit and it makes you want to vomit. I never going to use that thing again in my life. shudder:

[MINAKO]

The weirdest thing I have ever used in my hair is a kind of fruit called Noni.... smells like vomit, taste like vomit and it makes you want to vomit. I never going to use that thing again in my life. shudder:

We should mix the noni fruit with ghee to make a new trndy recipe for a mask, then record a video and put it all over youtube and pinterest. XD My hair had a whiff of puke for around a week. Probably nobody else could smell it, but still.

[divinedobbie]

Vaseline. I highly recommend never ever doing this!!

[Orange Queen]

MINAKO
omfg indeed. I can imagine. I put butter all over my skin once (I really must have had some sort of image issues around grade 7), and I swear I could smell it on me for a week at least. Around day three it started to smell like vomit/rotten milk. I spent most of that week showering.
Ghee is like butter x 12. I feel your pain.

Also, where does one get purified snail mucus? Is that a common thing? :)

Fern
I used a placenta treatment in my hair before. Only thing that bugged me was the amount of baby powder floral scent the formula had.
I just saw a package of Lamb Placenta Essential Facial Oil at Wal-Mart the other day, must be pretty common (still a little bit gross if you think about it)

Ferryl
I think if you only use the yolk then it doesn't curdle that fast.
I had rye crumbs and egg in my hair once. Supposedly it makes your hair stronger. That was also fun to wash out.

ExpectoPatronum, I would totally get a shampoo that smells like my favorite laundry detergent :)

[Orange Queen]

Oh my God, noni fruit!
Apparently it's like the best thing for you.
Someone at work gave me noni tea once. I threw the whole box out after I brewed the first cup.
The coworker also wanted to give me noni juice (it even sounds gross), but I somehow got out of that.

[MINAKO]

Hahaha, yeah the first day it kinda still smelled like ghee which was bad enough, but then it really stank the next morning and rewashing my hair didnt do anything. I tried to cover the smell with Aussie and peppermint EO, not really successful tho.

The snail mucus is pretty commonly used in asian skincare, or more specifically i think it started out in south korea. Theres tons of products with that stuff just like you find aloe vera here in everything. My serum is from a brand called Mizon, i order online. I think Urban Outfitters has a few of their products on the website too.

[Yarrow]

I used ink on my hair as well... In an attempt to color it. I don't think results were that good. Just a huge mess.
Onion and garlic were also quite stinky. And the bad part is the smell came back every time the hair was wet. For months later.

Lol at the butter on skin, rest assured you are not the only teenager that tried it. I attempted it as well and couldn't eat butter for years afterwards because the butter smell made me vomit.

Oh, now you guys got me wanting to try out snail mucus. I knew it was added to a lot of cremes but not that you can buy it pure. So you mix it with something or just take it and apply it?

[RainbowBowser]

I find it weird that some LHCers use monistat on their hair.
Its one thing to use food and shampoos not meant for human hair... but things intended for downstairs? thats strange.
meh, weirdest thing on my hair was an egg mask.

[Orange Queen]

I've heard about the onion thing before. Apparently hair looks amazing after, and grows in stronger.
Judging by my home made beauty experiments so far, I would probably smell like an onion for a year. Every review I've ever read about it, everyone mentioned that they were scared to go outside when it rained.
How did your hair turn out? Were you so traumatized by onions that it didn't matter? :D

Monistat? Never hear of it being used on hair before. I've heard of Preparation H on under eye bags, but this is new.

I'm curious about the snail mucus as well. This is a sentence I never thought I would say in my life.

Oh, just remembered, I've used gelatin on my hair as well as on my face. The whole time I kept thinking - hooves, hooves, you have dead cow on your face.-
I also don't eat meat, for about 13 years now, so that makes it weirder.

[MINAKO]

the snail serum i have is a 90% one i think, but it also comes in 100% without other active ingredients to use on the entire body. 3W Clinic sells big 300g pots as far as i know. Its much like aloe, but a bot stronger and when wet way more slippery, so in case i get a really nasty snarl i put a few drops directly on it and massage it in with my fingers, then gently take it apart. It seems to instantly soften, so most of the time when i do this i dont end up with single broken hairs. Cones give nice slip, but once the knot is super tight they dont seem to loosen it as opposed to the gel texture.

[Nadine <3]

I guess I'm pretty tame tame compared to ya'll. I've done eggs (I washed with nothing but egg yolk for 4 months with amazing results but my scalp couldn't handle it.) and gelatin and all the other usual LHC things like coconut oil and vinegar, but nothing really weird I don't think... I used to color the ends of my hair with markers in 5th grade...looks cool and probably pretty safe for the health of your hair, but it doesn't stay on. I had red and blue marker all over everything because it all rubbed off everywhere...

I tried flax seed gel and that seemed weird to me...it's seed boogers.

[Yarrow]

I think it turned out all right and I actually had a bunch on new baby hairs. But if that can be attributed to garlic and onion?
Yea the smell really is not pleasant and bad thing is you just have to wait it out and washing your hair won't help it.
But if you want shiny hair without the smell and try something unusual, try molasses. It makes your hair really shine.
Hm, gelatine. Many people here seem to get wonderful results here with it. I'm really thinking about it. I suppose vegatable gelatine such as agar agar won't get the same results?

[Nadine <3]

I think it turned out all right and I actually had a bunch on new baby hairs. But if that can be attributed to garlic and onion?
Yea the smell really is not pleasant and bad thing is you just have to wait it out and washing your hair won't help it.
But if you want shiny hair without the smell and try something unusual, try molasses. It makes your hair really shine.
Hm, gelatine. Many people here seem to get wonderful results here with it. I'm really thinking about it. I suppose vegatable gelatine such as agar agar won't get the same results?

It's used as a protein treatment, so I don't think that would work. I use the Knox unflavored brand, with great results.

[Orange Queen]

Knox gelatin for me too.
I have some photos in my profile in an album from a while back.
My hair is a lot more damaged there, but you can see how shiny it got.

[Orange Queen]

Molasses, hmm sounds good :)
I don't think I've ever used them in anything before, but seen jars in my supermarket, so it's easily accessible.

[Yarrow]

Oh bummer. Thanks for the tip, I usually don't use gelatine at all.

That snail mucus sure sounds like a miraculous detangler and deep conditioner in one.

[Swan Maiden]

I suppose some find Ostrich oil strange. When I was maybe 13, I colored my hair with easter egg dye. I tried putting tiger balm on my scalp once when I was a teen, luckily it was only in a small spot.

[tigress86]

Like Nadine, I used to color my hair with markers too when I was a kid. I also painted my nails with markers.

[prettigurl]

I made a deep treatment with banana, avocado and a few other edible items. It was hard work getting those banana chunks out of my hair. I won't be doing that again.

[MINAKO]

Like Nadine, I used to color my hair with markers too when I was a kid. I also painted my nails with markers.

Haha, i paited my nails with black marker and applied clear polish all the time, because my hand wasnt staedy enough to deal with actual black polish. :taz:

[FuzzyBlackWaves]

I'm pretty tame - egg is probably the oddest thing I put in my hair regularly. My hair is very partial to protein.

[Jorja]

I tried to dye my hair at school with beetroot juice, thinking I'd get a nice purpley red (purpley red face mabye :rolleyes: )

Also had head smothered in mayonaise all day with a tesco carrier bag on my head. I smelt looovely, and the oil separated and ran down my face all day :disgust:

[truepeacenik]

I'm so anti mayo for almost anything. If I need some for a recipie, I get out the whisk and an egg. Maybe twice a year will I bother. So I'm immune from trying either egg or mayo. Sounds like I'm lucky.

Worst result of a non store ingredient was honey...in the desert. Honey and other humectants move moist to dry. The air was drier. Then my hair was straw, for a week.

Oddest thing I've tried, well, after being here for years, nothing is that strange in and of itself, but I held the idea that if I didn't eat a product, why would I use it for vanity?
And the corollary was the minimal animal product I ate was for survival, technically, so again, vanity use was wasteful.
I now save the whey that separates from my yogurt to use in my hair.

[spidermom]

Vaseline for a halloween look; I was a skeleton.
Then I had to use original Dawn dishwashing liquid to get it out after multiple washes with shampoo. A black friend told me that Dawn would get any weird thing I used out of my hair, and she was right.

[Orange Queen]

I also found that out about honey, so use it when humidity is above 60%
Glycerin does that too, if anyone is using that on their face.

I'm loving these, and at least not all of the stories are disasters.
:D

[Anje]

I'm pretty tame. Weirdest thing I've done was probably Koolaid in my hair in a (completely failed) attempt to color it purple.

However, putting blue Koolaid in my little brother's (normally warm level 6ish) hair gave us surprisingly gray results, which amused me to no end. :D He had asked for it but was quite annoyed.

[ladonna]

I use bag balm on my hair every day. I apply it to my skin after showering and then whatever is left on my hands I run on the ends of my hair. Bag balm is just an antibiotic mixed into to lanolin and petroleum jelly. It kind of smells so don't use any more than a slight film covering your hands.
I don't get that rancid oil smell like I do with natural oils and hair super shiny and not greasy at all, but I don't think this would work for thinner hair people. If you try be very careful.

[Auni]

KY jelly. And it seriously tames monsterous frizz with some gel in humid summer days!

[AspenSong]

Vaseline. I highly recommend never ever doing this!!

Ditto this! I did this once, maaaany years ago!! When I was about 14. Don't ask me why, but I thought anything that could "moisturize", would totally work on my hair. I made up a concoction with Vaseline, Mayo and Conditioner to "soak" my hair in. It was bad. Really bad. lol.

But I have something that to me, is even weirder. Around that same age, I got this idea in my head that maybe I needed to scrub my scalp. Maybe it would just be good for that skin to be exfoliated really well. So squirted like half a bottle of St Ives Apricot scrub, onto my scalp. Yeah.....that stuff doesn't wash out easily. lol.

[luvlonghair75]

I use bag balm on my hair every day. I apply it to my skin after showering and then whatever is left on my hands I run on the ends of my hair. Bag balm is just an antibiotic mixed into to lanolin and petroleum jelly. It kind of smells so don't use any more than a slight film covering your hands.
I don't get that rancid oil smell like I do with natural oils and hair super shiny and not greasy at all, but I don't think this would work for thinner hair people. If you try be very careful.

I used to have bag balm as well! I used it mostly on chapped hands and in my hair once or twice. I don't recall there being too much of an issue with having fine and thin hair.

The weirdest thing I have put in my hair is this new dry shampoo by pantene. It really doesn't do anything except to mask my scalp oils. Hair still looks greasy and feels greasy. It was my first time so maybe I didn't do it right? Did exactly what the can said to.

[gwenalyn]

I used to have bag balm as well! I used it mostly on chapped hands and in my hair once or twice. I don't recall there being too much of an issue with having fine and thin hair.

The weirdest thing I have put in my hair is this new dry shampoo by pantene. It really doesn't do anything except to mask my scalp oils. Hair still looks greasy and feels greasy. It was my first time so maybe I didn't do it right? Did exactly what the can said to.

I've found that the difference in how dry shampoo works varies quite a lot by brand. I've never tried the Pantene, but I tried TreSemme and Batiste and something else I don't remember, and Batiste worked 3xs better.

[missblueeyes]

Wow, I'm really tame compared to you, guys. The 'weirdest' thing I've ever used was honey and aloe juice straight from the plant. :,D No eggs for me, thank you very much. (the white part grosses me out so much)

[Wusel]

Mane 'n Tail horse shampoo and conditioner.
There's one for dry hair too. The deep moisturizing one.

[Orange Queen]

Ditto this! I did this once, maaaany years ago!! When I was about 14. Don't ask me why, but I thought anything that could "moisturize", would totally work on my hair. I made up a concoction with Vaseline, Mayo and Conditioner to "soak" my hair in. It was bad. Really bad. lol.



Holy crap. How long were you washing this out of your hair? :D

I once used Burdock oil in my extremely fine and at that time long hair . Not particularly weird, but I didn't get the dosage right. Instead of using a tea or table spoon I used like quarter of a bottle. If that wasn't bad enough, I added a little bit of Organics Hair Mayonnaise with bits of herbs in it.
I washed my hair probably around 20+ times. Had to go to college in the morning (exam), and was in the bathtub pretty much the whole night.
I got most of it out, but was picking herbs out of my hair for what seemed weeks.
I'll never forget my mother walking into the bathroom every 15 minutes or so with every possible thing we had in the house that could possibly remove the oil.

It was really hard to track down a bottle of 100% Burdock oil, and I remember how glad I was that I finally got it lol

[JellyBene]

A few years ago I dug up a small yucca plant and used it's root to make shampoo. It actually worked amazingly well, but it was way harder than i imagined digging one of those things out of the ground, granted it was only about a foot tall, but those roots go deep.

[JellyBene]

Oh and there was the time when I was about 14 and I had decided my (at the time) 1b hair with an ever so slight wave was unnactptable and had read somewhere that soaking it in milk for 30 min before shampooing would help straighten it. It didn't work, but I din't think much of it until gym class the next day when after I began to work up a sweat, a rancid milk smell appeared. So gross!

[meteor]

My experiments have been pretty tame: honey, gelatin, coconut water, yogurt... Come to think of it: it's all the foodstuffs that I don't like eating anyway. :hmm: I don't think I'd waste the foods that I actually like (e.g. eggs, tea and coffee) on hair. :lol:

[Arctic]

Is it weird that after so many years here all the things people put in their hair seems so very normal :D

[Orange Queen]

Some people find it weird if someone puts oil in their hair.
Hah, if they only knew :D

[Fairina]

I once used quinoa in my hair to exfoliate. It didn't work at all and I had tons of little seeds in my hair that were so hard to wash out. But it did make me think of how fun it would be if they started to grow and I ended up with a hair plant.. which then inspired this picture:
http://i.imgur.com/oRm87IIl.jpg

[Rapunzel_to_be]

Putting eggs and oils and even coconut milk is not weird to me, although I'm not so fond of the eggs part... only do it when my mom almost forces me to :p Anyway the weirdest thing I've put in my hair must be a spice called Sumac, or actually Sumac water, my mom told me it is to strengthen the roots and add shine. I know she also adds it to her henna .

[jackie_brown]

The weirdest thing i did to my hair was an egg-shampoo.
ONLY whole egg, straight, followed by an ACV rinse.
My hair was shiny and felt thicker after the treatment, but i did that before going out for a date :D.
My partner was almost to puke when we were walking outside and i was upwind :cool:

[*ReiKa*]

I think that MOST of the stuff that we put on our hair is seen as outrageous and crazy by "others" (people that are not into natural hair care, you know what I mean). Probably anything edible is seen as weird...
Definitely the craziest in the list must be eggs... cos they notoriously are smelly and too disgusting to put on the hair.... and I am the first one that used to look at eggs hair pack as unbelievably disgusting... even when I got into natural hair care, it took me a long while before I wished to try it...
Oils, they are just seen as a greasy messy way to condition your hair... which it actually is, if you don't wash it off properly or if you apply too much for your leave-in...
Coconut milk, I absolutely swear by it! It makes my hair unbelievably soft...
Oh, banana is pretty crazy as well, I think... I'm not gonna do that anymore, even though I blended it for ages and looked smooth and safe I still ended up with bits of banana stuck everywhere in my hair... not even 2 shampoos managed to get rid of them :rolleyes:

[Orange Queen]

Definitely crossing banana off my list of stuff to try on my hair.
Wanted to try a yogurt/banana thing, but now staying away from dairy in my hair as well.
Although there is this one sour cream treatment... :D

[cle90]

I don't think it's too "weird", but coconut milk!!!!

[HintOfMint]

For me, vinegar has to be the weirdest thing, mainly because it's so out of character for me. I care a lot about how my hair smells and to deliberately rinse my hair with something I associate with pickles, I must really care about hair.

[MINAKO]

I remembered another one. When i was little i used my grandmas Melissengeist on my scalp, some alcohol based herbal remedy. It burned like hell, but i didnt want to tell her i opened the bottle, so i kept quiet until she went out for her shopping and then i quickly tried to wash my hair. Needless to say i was still sopping wet when she came back.

[Echileruwen]

When I was in high school, we were all rinsing our hair with beer because it was supposed to make it strong and shiny. There was even a shampoo out at the time that had beer as one of the ingredients. The police weren't too happy about this, because when they'd stop a car full of teenagers they'd smell a slight odor of beer in our hair and were never quite sure if it was really coming from our hair, LOL.

The only other somewhat strange thing I ever tried was coconut oil because it was supposed to make hair shiny, but all it did was make mine limp and greasy and the smell got to me after a while. I'll stick to cooking with that stuff, it's not going in my hair again.

[Hairkay]

I'll use banana (yes I know the risk of banana bits stuck in hair, that's only happened once with me). I use coconut milk preferable some I've freshly made and I'll use yogurt. I have coconut oil, olive oil and almond oil. I've even done a yogurt and fenugreek mix. I won't do the egg thing and there's no way I'm putting shop made mayonnaise in my hair. My friend keeps insisting that it has to be easier than getting banana pureed just right. It's because I don't want use eggs and shop bought mayonnaise has other things added like xanthan gum, an artificially created producted, stabilisers and preservatives. With my super sensitive skin I have to consider each ingredient one at a time and that is impossible to do with a shop bought concoction. With banana there's just banana to consider and yogurt, just yogurt to consider. Even if I manage to eat something without having a reaction the same stuff put directly on my skin may cause a problem.

I've used vaseline as a child. We'd put a little on hair to seal in the water to the hair. You should only put a tiny amount. I can't see myself trying snail slime or even gelatin.

I may try honey once I've heated it because I like my hair dark as it is.

[Elizabeth E]

Well, I've had my fair share of weird experiments. I regularly wash my hair only with rice water and sometimes use ground cinnamon to lightly exfoliate my scalp. But I have done an egg mask a few times...and that smell! I am very sensitive to the smell of raw egg, so I would hold my breath while shampooing and it would take at least two washes for the smell to get out completely. Not ever again!
Oh, and I once put grated carrot in my hair, thinking that it wouldn't be much different from the carrot juice recommended in some youtube videos. Getting the pieces of carrot out was a pain, to say the least. The same applies to mixing ground black pepper in my hair mask once; there were black bits all over my hair and neck!

[chiapommama]

I've put quite a few odd things in my hair experimenting. Baby food, rice water, Monistat, gelatin, etc. Strangest thing here recently was
K y jelly. Supposed to help with frizz. There are actually a few reviews on YouTube on it. Haven't used it long enough to see if it works.

[Rehab350]

I used egg, then when rising the water felt cool but apparently was not cold enough. ...so cooked egg in my hair. Bleeeh!
That happened to me too. OMG I hardly could wash it of my hair.
I tried Vix Vaporub. I smelled like Vix for days. I couldn't wash it of in one wash. It was horrible.

[AutobotsAttack]

Toilet bowl cleaning detergent. I needed something to neutralize my hair after I applied a relaxer, and I realized I ran out of neutralizing shampoo. Worked extremely well since the Ph of it was just at 3. I diluted it to a decent amount. It left my hair extremely filmy and slippery. Won’t be doing that again.

Dirt. I was trying to mimic this practice that the native people of Kenya do to keep moisture in their hair. (They compact spices and certain powders/dirt with water to form a paste, and coat their hair and braid it up as added moisture. I tried to do it with the top soil I had in my backyard and it was a hot mess. This isn’t really weird since I was trying out something that’s rather normal for a culture of different people. But it was new to me.


Toothpaste to soothe a bad case of dandruff I once had


Mind you, this was all before I started growing my hair out. And I was just trying stuff for sake of doing it.

[Glitch]

Toilet bowl cleaning detergent. I needed something to neutralize my hair after I applied a relaxer, and I realized I ran out of neutralizing shampoo. Worked extremely well since the Ph of it was just at 3. I diluted it to a decent amount. It left my hair extremely filmy and slippery. Won’t be doing that again.

Dirt. I was trying to mimic this practice that the native people of Kenya do to keep moisture in their hair. (They compact spices and certain powders/dirt with water to form a paste, and coat their hair and braid it up as added moisture. I tried to do it with the top soil I had in my backyard and it was a hot mess. This isn’t really weird since I was trying out something that’s rather normal for a culture of different people. But it was new to me.


Toothpaste to soothe a bad case of dandruff I once had


Mind you, this was all before I started growing my hair out. And I was just trying stuff for sake of doing it.

Wow!! Super interesting :O I like that you've been fearless to go ahead and do what you thought might help. I, on the other hand, definitely need to try more things 'out of the ordinary' to see what other great benefits are out there :)

[egcmi]

OMG this thread is gold! :lol:
When I was 15, I used hydrogen peroxyde in an attempt to make my hair colour lighter. The problem is I used the antibacterial kind you'd use on wounds, not the cream developer mixed with bleaching powder. I had forgotten it, but reading the title of this thread and a few posts revived some old memories. :lol:

[Dark40]

The weirdest stuff or product I have ever put on my hair was, "Manic Panic." I was applying it to tone down the yellow in my blonde hair. I was trying to make it white or platinum but I've come to realize that I didn't like the product. Because, it was drying to the hair. So, I've stopped using it.

[AutobotsAttack]

Wow!! Super interesting :O I like that you've been fearless to go ahead and do what you thought might help. I, on the other hand, definitely need to try more things 'out of the ordinary' to see what other great benefits are out there :)

Well at least it can be viewed in a positive way. Since then I’ve been a bit more proactive and respondsible with my products (not overusing them lol). I still have the urge to try different methods of hair care across the globe. But I think I’ll have to put that on hold for a while.

[nycelle]

I'm a chicken.
Have tried the basics (mayo, eggs, oil) but that's it.

[Glitch]

Well at least it can be viewed in a positive way. Since then I’ve been a bit more proactive and respondsible with my products (not overusing them lol). I still have the urge to try different methods of hair care across the globe. But I think I’ll have to put that on hold for a while.

Ooh, I feel you. Recently I went a little crazy with over-experimenting with oils until my ends became crispy and crunchy. Now I have to take a good break from them!

[redeyedtreefr0g]

I did egg once. Seemed like a good idea.... so many other people had done it, so why not? I totally stealthed an egg into the bathroom and felt like a criminal or something. Even though I'd read the warnings on temperature our cold water cured the eggwhites anyway and I had to brush it out so much after drying. The egg did nothing I could tell for my hair- maybe dried it out? I remember but scalp being SO ITCHY though. So itchy. No eggs anywhere but cooked and in my mouth, kkthnxbye.

Water only might be the weirdest thing, come to think of it.

[trolleypup]

Discounting the oldoldold thread of similar title (pictures of weird things as hairtoys was the result), I got a bunch of pine pitch in my hair on a backpacking trip, so after I got home (pitch completely solidified by then), I used Goo-Gone (or similar industrial solvent) to get the pitch out, then camellia oil to get the Goo-Gone out, then water (WO) to get the camellia oil out. When it dried, that patch of hair looked just like the rest...I was lucky. I considered using the only solvent I had while in the wilderness (diesel for the saws), but I didn't have anything to get the diesel out.

[AutobotsAttack]

Discounting the oldoldold thread of similar title (pictures of weird things as hairtoys was the result), I got a bunch of pine pitch in my hair on a backpacking trip, so after I got home (pitch completely solidified by then), I used Goo-Gone (or similar industrial solvent) to get the pitch out, then camellia oil to get the Goo-Gone out, then water (WO) to get the camellia oil out. When it dried, that patch of hair looked just like the rest...I was lucky. I considered using the only solvent I had while in the wilderness (diesel for the saws), but I didn't have anything to get the diesel out.

Can I ask how the mechanics of the diesel solvent would work to get it out? I’m curious as to how the mechanics of that would go. Can I ask what pine pitch is?

[AutobotsAttack]

Ooh, I feel you. Recently I went a little crazy with over-experimenting with oils until my ends became crispy and crunchy. Now I have to take a good break from them!

Oh yeah definitely lol. I don’t know what it is about when I get product hauls or buy a bunch of products to renew my stash but I get product happy and use at least a bit aloof everything I buy back to back, almost everyday to try everything out.

[Glitch]

Oh yeah definitely lol. I don’t know what it is about when I get product hauls or buy a bunch of products to renew my stash but I get product happy and use at least a bit aloof everything I buy back to back, almost everyday to try everything out.

"Product happy" haha, an excellent description, that is basically what I become as well :laugh:
I also use everything at once and so I can't tell what is exactly working and what's not, gosh. I wish patience wasn't so difficult :mad:

[trolleypup]

Can I ask how the mechanics of the diesel solvent would work to get it out? I’m curious as to how the mechanics of that would go. Can I ask what pine pitch is?
Pitch is the sticky sap that many trees exude when they are damaged (insects, etc.) to create a protective barrier. It dries slowly into an extremely sticky semisolid that binds/sticks really well to almost everything, then hardens slowly to a almost solid that can be returned to stickiness by friction, heat, etc.

It is more easily softened and dissolved by oil based solvents than water, soap, alcohol. Diesel is a pretty decent oil based solvent...so soak the pitchy hair in diesel (rags) and keep soaking and wiping to removed the pitch as it dissolves. Of course, that leaves you with diesel soaked hair, which I suppose could be cleaned with very soapy water or alcohol (neither of which I had in quantity). Same process as with the Goo-Gone, just not as nasty.

[Beckstar]

I added hand lotion because I thought it would be extremely moisturizing.

[egcmi]

I added hand lotion because I thought it would be extremely moisturizing.

oh my god i did that too! :lol: but it was body lotion. and i did it because some curly hair youtuber said she regularly uses some specific brand of body lotion to style her curls and the result was pretty nice. of course i didn't have the exact brand but i thought the ingredients in my body lotion looked ok, so what could possibly go wrong, right? WRONG. my curls were well defined, but so stiff and greasy to the touch, also flat and weighed down. you could clearly see a line of demarcation where i had applied the product and where i hadn't, you would see my locks instantly going from 100% volume to 0. would not recommend! maybe i would have gotten better results with her body lotion but uhhhh who knows... i'm not seeing myself trying this method again anytime soon.

[MoonRabbit]

When I was younger I rubbed a dryer sheet on my hair to smooth the frizz. My hair felt so disgusting.


Not really weird just a bad idea: Poorly mashed banana, nothing is worse than waiting to wash something out and expecting perfectly soft and beautiful hair and then reality happens and you spend the next hour and a half watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, sobbing and picking chunks of dry banana out of your hair..

[Joules]

I had a "use-food-on-your-hair" phase, I used eggs to wash my hair and did egg and honey masks a few times. I tried butter on my hair, the kind that's made of cow milk, and I actually loved it.

But the weirdest thing by far was mustard. For hair growth. Homemade mustrad, to be exact.

I would take 2 tablespoons of mustard powder, add to it 2 edd yolks, 2-3 tablespoons of any oil, and 1-2 teaspoons of sugar (the more sugar, the more heat you'll get). Mix and apply on scalp. The heat was...intense. I did it once a week for about 2-3 months, I stopped because one time I must have miscalculated the amount of mustard powder and sugar and it burnt my scalp. Nothing too severe and dramatic, but it was quite uncomfortable for a few hours.

I did see growth though. Too bad I had to cut it all off because my hair was drier than ever.

[nycelle]

When I was younger I rubbed a dryer sheet on my hair to smooth the frizz. My hair felt so disgusting.


Not really weird just a bad idea: Poorly mashed banana, nothing is worse than waiting to wash something out and expecting perfectly soft and beautiful hair and then reality happens and you spend the next hour and a half watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, sobbing and picking chunks of dry banana out of your hair..

I think lots of kids tried this..lol

[lapushka]

I've put quite a few odd things in my hair experimenting. Baby food, rice water, Monistat, gelatin, etc. Strangest thing here recently was
K y jelly. Supposed to help with frizz. There are actually a few reviews on YouTube on it. Haven't used it long enough to see if it works.

Do make sure the jelly is water based if you use a lubricant. That's the key to it working well.

[chiapommama]

Lapushka

It is. Just checked and made sure.

[enting]

Not sure I've used anything really weird.
I've tried mashed up banana, hand lotion, body lotion, pawpaw balm, desitin and other zinc based creams (on my scalp), aloe gel, marshmallow tea, vinegar, and various plant oils.

[DryadicSeaNymph]

Buffalo ghee.

[Larki]

Just an egg, various oils and herbs. Nothing that LHC considers weird. Had great success with everything so far.

[cjk]

Hardware from Home Depot! Nails, spikes, and so forth.

You didn't specify chemicals.

[ETJ CURLS]

I've never been one to get too crazy - as far as food grade products go, I've tried raw coconut oil, raw olive oil, and raw honey once each. The honey was for a lightening attempt, and it was the only one I actually liked. I stick to having it in formulated products though.

I will throw some glitter in my hair every so often. It can be highly abrasive, so I save it for special events, but it does look cool. :D

[sarana]

I think I put vodka on my hair when I was having a meltdown trying to get rid of henna

[Rainbouu]

Years ago I did honey, mayo, Avocados, bananas and everything i heard might have benefits heehee! Now the only "weird" thing I've tried is onion juice. Yup I tried it recently! Some of my friends consider my herbal tea rinses weird too, but the onions definitely take the cake.

[WavyWannabe]

Some years ago, I think it was right before joining LHC, I decided to smash an avocado and put it in my hair.
After all, The Internet (TM) said it was good for hair, and I was trying to procrastinate more important things, so it sounded like a great idea.
I know it works for some people, but it definitely didn't work on my hair!
It was an absolute pain to rinse out. Even after multiple shampoos I still had greasy, weirdly flaky hair the next day. :p
Lesson learned, now I stick to manufactured products or DIY stuff with lighter, somewhat "refined" ingredients like oils, vinegar, glycerin, etc.
(And also I really love avocado as food, so it was a real bummer)

[foreveryours]

Beer. What a waste.

[WavyWannabe]

Beer. What a waste.

Blasphemy. :eek:

[foreveryours]

Blasphemy. :eek:

I never wasted it again :beerchug:

[shayna]

Soap as a styling aid.
My middle sister and I, when we were in our early teens, read a big article in the newspaper about 'Auckland's Punk Rockers' and their lifestyle. Which I guess we wanted to copy. One of the girls had a hair style with giant spikes sticking out all over, and she explained that she used lathered up soap to shape it, then dried it with a hair dryer. So off we went ... it did work as advertised, but, and it was a big BUT, the soap we used smelt really unpleasant when it dried in our hair. Sort of like citrusy tallow. I guess in a way this belongs in the 80s hair thread, but I only just remembered it when I saw this one. :o

I was also very afraid when I saw foreveryours name here, and I almost didn't want to find out what the weirdest thing was he ever put in his hair. Beer, phew! :p

[foreveryours]

Beer contains protein. But I use it now for my head, not my hair :p

[my2cats1]

I will throw some glitter in my hair every so often. It can be highly abrasive, so I save it for special events, but it does look cool. :D

Oh, that sounds fun. Now I'm trying to think of special occasions that I can use as an excuse to wear glitter.... :hmm:

[shayna]

I just remembered using soy sauce in my hair for a protein treatment years ago. I think it was a bit of a craze for a short time. I can't remember if it did anything. :p :sushi:

[Ylva]

It would probably be the bear grease. I think foreveryours remembers it, at least! :D

[foreveryours]

It would probably be the bear grease. I think foreveryours remembers it, at least! :D

Yes I do, one of those interesting memories buried in the threads here at LHC I'll carry with me forever :p

[Hairy-Fairy]

Just the standard weird things, I think. I tried ghee overnight but it left my hair gunky feeling and a bit rotten smelling. I washed it out and never tried it again. Homemade food masks with stuff like eggs, gone bad avocados and gone bad bananas. I never had any problems with these. I just rinsed the egg out with cool water and made sure to strain the banana or Avocado ones through a tight cheesecloth or something. I wash my hair with mud. My husband thinks that's weird. I did fermented rice water for awhile. It made a decent shampoo replacement for me and I didn't have any stinky rice water issues as long as I put citrus peels in it.

[angel-baby]

Back in the 2000s I tried the baking soda and apple cider vinegar rinses that were popular on Livejournal. Not a fan of the baking soda at all, but the ACV gave some nice shine. I still use a clayifying shampoo with ACV as one of the ingredients.

[Bat]

Surprisingly enough considering my history with doing stupid stuff to my hair I've not used anything considered unusual

[Bat]

Years ago I did honey, mayo, Avocados, bananas and everything i heard might have benefits heehee! Now the only "weird" thing I've tried is onion juice. Yup I tried it recently! Some of my friends consider my herbal tea rinses weird too, but the onions definitely take the cake.

I hear onion juice is used to speed up hair growth but I'm not sure if that is true

[angel-baby]

I hear onion juice is used to speed up hair growth but I'm not sure if that is true

I've heard the same things but it seems like way too much, even in my weirdest DIY haircare phase. The onion smell alone makes it a hard no.

[Rainbouu]

I hear onion juice is used to speed up hair growth but I'm not sure if that is true


I've heard the same things but it seems like way too much, even in my weirdest DIY haircare phase. The onion smell alone makes it a hard no.

Yeah, it's certainly interesting. I figured, there is only one way to find out if it's true for me. But I won't keep it up forever unless the results are as amazing as they say which...is a pretty tall order. But not much weirder than Monistat or caffeine rinses? Curiosity got the better of me and I had to try it, I guess 😛

It does make my scalp and hair feel great like a caffeine rinse--invigorated, thick, and super clean without irritation--but without the headaches I swear caffine rinses give me. As for the smell, I smell like onions according to 70% of people but the smell diminishes sharply over the course of three days until it's gone completely. Back when I did henndigo, I thought that smell was way worse because it smelled like gasoline to me!

[lapushka]

Let's see... this was waaay back on this board where I was new and willing to try absolutely anything and everything. An egg. Milk (which: NO! just no!). Honey. Beer. Yep, that's about it but it's enough :lol: You know?

My goodness, the lengths we go to. These days I have embraced it all, any product goes. Only the styling I pay attention to, really. Mousse + gel and I'm set. I can oomph my barely there waves into full 3a hair right now. I just tried one of the Yari mousses and I can say? Yep! I will re-order that stuff as soon as it near-runs out. Just one use and it's visibly the best it's ever been. I have yet to try the avocado one. I have mousses here stacked up to high heaven. got2b, andrélon, l'oréal, syoss, you name it, if it's got curly mousse, I got it. :lol: Oh, and Kruidvat (the drugstore) own brand had a curly mousse, but they no longer do it. It is/was fantabulous!

[shayna]

I have remembered another odd thing I put in my hair ... I was always very interested in historical beauty and hair care recipes and once I made some Victorian Hair Pomade. It consisted of lard and some citronella oil for scent. Despite the essential oil it still smelt piggy. The sad thing was that it actually worked really well. At the time I had a fairly short platinum bob, and I liked to wear it like a silent movie actress.
The Citronella Pomade worked well as hair grease for styling, I have photos of it, and I was sure it helped with the condition of the hair, which as you'd imagine was a bit compromised. But, no, the porky smell was always going to be its downfall. A shame, really. :o

[foreveryours]

While on the subject on animal greases (bears and pigs at least), I once tried sheep grease (lanolin). I meant ONCE. Like beer, it was supposed to be good for hair. Sheep use it. They're pretty woolly. But it's really sticky. ANd does have an "off" smell

[Hairy-Fairy]

I've airways wanted to try lard or tallow in my hair. I'm a sucker for anything all natural and/or historic. But I really don't NEED to. I mean, it doesn't do anything different then shea butter, right?

[Fethenwen]

Haha, I had to think hard because I have tried so many things out of curiosity.

Eggs in hair is pretty weird, it worked actually really well as a pre-shampoo protein treatment.
What else... did chickpea flour once for washing, works - sort of.
Fermented rice water was a no-no for my hair for some reason.

[shayna]

While on the subject on animal greases (bears and pigs at least), I once tried sheep grease (lanolin). I meant ONCE. Like beer, it was supposed to be good for hair. Sheep use it. They're pretty woolly. But it's really sticky. ANd does have an "off" smell


I've airways wanted to try lard or tallow in my hair. I'm a sucker for anything all natural and/or historic. But I really don't NEED to. I mean, it doesn't do anything different then shea butter, right?
I'm wondering if we perhaps used less of the lard/lanolin/bear parts, and put some into an emulsified water and oil type lotion or cream, we could get the shiny conditioning animal goodness without the smell?
Perhaps even just rub a dab of pure lanolin with a dab of leave-conditioner and apply it?
Probably the purpose of this thread wasn't to encourage us in the use of overly creative ingredients, but animal fat sounds like it would have useful hair friendly properties. :confused:

[Hairy-Fairy]

I'm wondering if we perhaps used less of the lard/lanolin/bear parts, and put some into an emulsified water and oil type lotion or cream, we could get the shiny conditioning animal goodness without the smell?
Perhaps even just rub a dab of pure lanolin with a dab of leave-conditioner and apply it?
Probably the purpose of this thread wasn't to encourage us in the use of overly creative ingredients, but animal fat sounds like it would have useful hair friendly properties. :confused:

Some people do make emulsified creams for their body with things like tallow. I don't see why you couldn't put it on your hair.
As I recall, tallow and other animal fats are high in saturated fats that can penetrate the hair shaft similar to coconut oil. So that's one benefit.

[shayna]

Some people do make emulsified creams for their body with things like tallow. I don't see why you couldn't put it on your hair.
As I recall, tallow and other animal fats are high in saturated fats that can penetrate the hair shaft similar to coconut oil. So that's one benefit.

I have just been looking up about products made with tallow or lard for hair and skin, and I was rather surprised how many there are. Queen Helene Cholesterol Hair Conditioning Cream has both cholesterol and lanolin in the ingredients list. Mmmmm, very interesting! :o

[SandyBottom]

Nothing weird by LHC standards since pretty much anything goes, but here are some off the top of my head (pun intended). Banana, egg, avocado, fermented rice water, ginger, soy sauce, cayenne, sour cream, honey, molasses, numerous oils, aloe... These days I put most of the food items in my mouth so they can nourish the body as well as the hair. It's been fun experimenting!

[TatsuOni]

Shine/detangling spray for horses. To try and get wax out of my hair I tried dog scampoo and hand dish detergent. Nothing worked by the way :lol:

Food? Yeah that's a standard and not weird for me :p With the exception of avocado. I only tried it once and plucked pieces out of my hair for days :couch: