"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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from "michael adams" contains these words:


I stand to be corrected, but as I understand it, the main determinant
of hair condition - which presumably includes shiny hair, is diet
What's ingested rather than whats applied externally.

That's a bit like saying the main ingredient of a beautiful model's
complexion is diet. These days, it's down to the coating she applied to
her skin. Same with hair. You can eat lots of oily fish and nuts; or,
you can apply conditioners and polishers (during washing, or after it,
or after it dried) which build up a surface sheen/ shine. Hairdressers
use many different finishing-conditioners and "hair polishers". (If you
don't ask what they put on, you'll never be able to recreate the
fabulous new look you walk out with). Quite often one sees people who
overdid it with the glosser and their hair looks as if it was recently
dipped in a chip pan.

Janet


Yebbut, that can't account for black cats and labradors with
glossy coats, who are only ever fed on a traditional diet,
can it?

What's more with cats and dogs being lower down, their coats are
more subject to pollution from the likes of cars exhausts,
than is human hair. Which is at least 5 feet higher off
the ground

And yet strangely enough nobody ever suggests washing the
cat with Garnier Balsom or Fructis "because he's worth it"
do they ? No. All the cat ever gets, even if he doesn't
actually need it, is extra oil in his Friskies. And yet
he spends half his time sitting under cars in the road.

And yet nobody ever suggests humans should maintain
glossy hair by simply taking an inexpensive oil capsule
every day, do they? Actually it would be interesting
to find out if anyone, at least since the Victorians
who had a pill for everything, has ever promoted a
dietry supplement specifically for the hair.

More especialy when they can gouge rather more out of the
more credulous, by selling them detergent replete with
unecessarily expensive ingredients, just "because they're
worth it".


michael adams

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