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epitome of incomprehensibility
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Last night when I was trying to sleep, I kept thinking of a topic introduced on blather, which led to me going downstairs to look up the ingredients of dish soap at 2 AM (and not finding them because I was looking at the smaller dispenser, not the bigger container it came from).
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I will explain! alceda wrote yesterday that men's fashion isn't colourful enough, and I agree. And then about issues with their hair care, and so I got to thinking about how my ex did too many things to his instead of too little. Too many things, both to my subjective dismay (straightening it when I liked his natural curls) and my objective-ish judgment (don't blow-dry so much when your scalp already tends towards dryness).
I don't know much about conditioner, since doesn't work well for my hair texture. It might do good things for other people, depending on theirs.
But plastic bottles are objects that do not necessarily need to exist in the quantity they do. So that's what made me think, when I got into bed, "Can I make my own shampoo?"
And then I wondered if that would be too complicated, which made me wonder if I could just use dish soap instead, which my father buys in bulk - that would be mooching, but also reducing plastic waste. Would the soap be too harsh? I could dilute it with water. Or is it too antibacterial, which might be bad for skin...? (I'm not a biochemist.) But I could try it for a week when my current shampoo stock is almost out and see if it makes any material difference.
...Maybe that was just a weird 2 AM idea. But why not try it out? Fuck, this is where I would WANT to try asking one of the AI summary tools about comparing ingredients of things, except that I just came from a discussion (AI_and_vague_metaphors) where silly queries like that would seem to run contrary to some value of mine, maybe.
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Meh, it's not important, but I want to be brave about small things like trying weird stuff on my hair. I did that recently, sort of, with the ancient shampoos in too_many_small_containers - they worked fine - but then my father didn't know I was still using things from that storage bin and threw the rest out. For shame, erstwhile eco-friendly example!
One of my first blathes here is called I_got_a_dadaist_haircut, though my hair has long since reverted to a roughly even state. It's boringly but efficiently ponytailed most days. But I wear bright colours!
I'll try to tell men to do the same, but lately I've been failing to convince men to do things. Tried to get a few choir types to join The_Yeomen_of_the_Guard with no luck (we could use about three more tenors). Anyway, the good thing about long and only somewhat wavy hair is that you can braid it when you're pretending to be someone in Gilbert and Sullivan times.
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