Wow, I coulda had a VO5
Are we putting more vegetables on our heads than we are on our plates?
Sometimes, when I read the contents of organic personal care products like shampoo and lotion, I find myself wondering if we shouldn’t be getting these fruits and vegetables to starving people instead of dumping them on our hair.
I suspect the actual quantity of edible vegetable matter in your average 15-ounce (waitaminnit, weren’t these 16 ounces last year?) bottle of shampoo, even the good stuff — as distinguished from the 99-cents-per-bottle stuff I buy — is probably pretty insignificant.
On the other hand, in the process of looking up potential sources of snark, I did manage to get an answer for a question I remember posing when I was a bratty schoolboy: “Is it V-letter O-5, or V-zero-5?”
It’s an O, which apparently stands for “oil”:
Under the harsh, hair-frying lights of Hollywood motion picture studios, word was spreading about a product named after the chemist who invented it: Alberto VO5 Conditioning Hairdressing. With a unique water-free, five-oil formula, VO5 had been developed at the request of studios and had proven successful at rescuing hair from dryness and damage.
Well, thank you, Alberto, wherever you are.
sya »
24 August 2010 · 11:45 am
I can definitely tell a difference with my hair after I’ve washed it with the good stuff vs. the 99 cents stuff. But I’m kind of tempted to put samples of both through the gas chromatograph the next time we change the column just to see if there is a chemical difference and not just my imagination.
Julie »
24 August 2010 · 10:58 pm
White Rain shampoo always left my scalp a mess.
It’s my fault, really. Any hair care product named “white rain” is a disaster waiting to happen.