R U Fooled  in haircare matters / products ?  Reflect

 
 

 Why not one swear by the hair confidently and keep it too, like Draupadi ?

 
     
 

Allopathy / Major Medical Therapies have no easy cure for Hairloss or Dandruff !  

 
     
 

Constructive care Tips for the Top:    Destructive Fictions  rufooled:   Haircare Site map 2   Spicy shots  sitemap 3

 

 

  Hair FAQ  

 

Please refer to Indian Supreme Court's ruling in rufooled links page. Despite that, please realise that you have to help yourself. I have dissected and bared some baseless claims / products in 'RUfooled' section.

 

Advertisement - Personal Care - Hindustan Unilever
    source: Chote Ustaad, Star Plus TV, Friday, 15-3-2008
     
    Some personal care products advertisements are misleading / cheap, unabashed shamelessness, exhibit dubious double standards or deliberately mislead the public. So watch out.

Hindustan Unilever's catchline for RIN Detergent advertisement is 'Sabuth hi kya' ? / Any proof.

The advertisement claims that it is the only product with Proof. The term 'only' is needless. Do they accept the advertisement message ?  If RIN is the only product with proof, they should, if sincere and ethical, stop the sales of their other washing powers like Surf and Toilet Soaps like Dove, Lux and Lifebuoy !

See the dubious lofty stand ! They present proof for RIN. Who prevented them from providing / collecting proof for Fair & Lovely, Clinic Plus, Sunsilk and other personal care products that get in close touch with hair roots, hair and skin

When you examine / think about the advertisement claims of different products of one company or the advertisements of a single product, say Tooth Paste, of different companies, you can gain as I did

American Tobacco Companies, for suppressing the relevant facts  between Cancer and Smoking and for misguiding the Public, have been fined to pay 140 Billion Dollars / about 560000 Crores - 3 years old news

     
    Other samples    advtspoof    antidandruff shampoos
    related pages:   Toilet soaps - Lowered quality     Dr. Batra's      pH Bluff
     
Nonsense Unlimited   Source: Laughter Challenge, Repeat Telecast, Star One, 20-3-2008
    'Daag Achey Hai'  / Stain is good  - Hindustan Lever's advertisement for Surf Detergent
     
   

If stain is good, why the hell remove it ?

31-10-2008: Unproven / Over Claim: Surf could not even remove the Tea Stains as tried by me thrice. Ariel and Tide were no better. I made an oil based soap to lessen the stain last fortnight

     
    Lever's Sunlight: Removing such stains was never a problem for me between 1954 to 1974 with Sunlight. It was an oil based soap and not a detergent based cleaner like surf, Ariel

 

Allopathy / other major Medical Therapies  
     
    Allopathy is perhaps the most advanced / advancing Medical Therapy in the World. Yet it does not have any easy cure for Hairloss, Dandruff, Greying, Hirsutism and  Male Pattern Alopecia. The proof is simple, open and easily verifiable. The spread of  baldness amongst Allopathic Doctors is no less or no more, than what it is amongst the common public.

Personal Care Companies, which sell products for reduction / control of hairloss, Dandruff and other ailments mentioned above, liberally use Allopathic Medical Terms loosely, inappropriately, out of context and or cheaply, for the promotion of their products.

The Medical Profession does not claim to have easy and simple solution. And the on looker into Allopathy loudmouths to have cure off the shelves for all the hair problems. This gaudy show is baseless and unsupported by results. Remember this and be careful of your haircare methods and products. Or waste, Time and Money like me for years and then invent a product that can surpass Swapna

     
    Medical limits   hairsense    hairbasics    hair basics b  have to be bought

 

Another option - Simple commonsense Base
     
    Refer hairsense. It was appreciated by many in 1995-96, when Tips for the Top was published as a booklet and distributed free. It is the basic of haircare, anyone can practice. The validity / soundness / utility of the approach was proved by an invention - Swapna Hair Enricher

 

Alert - why hairloss is becoming routine and wide spread ?
     
    Allopathy does not have easy cure for hairloss and Dandruff. Yet, Cosmetic Companies, without any basis or valid proof in most cases,  advertise heavily on TV and other mediums, that they have the cure to dupe the customers.  Such blatant, unchecked brainwashing misleads many. refer awake

 

Anti Greying
     
    No medical remedy. Excess Shampooing and Dry Hair style can lead to premature greying. [ I have one part / long term solution ]

 

Anti Wrinkle
     
    Trace of unsaturated oil like Till Oil / Olive oil or saturated oil like Coconut oil is enough. Skin and Oil chapter has to be bought

 

Aping America / the West and the White
     
    It is a needless, shameless and nauseating practice amongst many Indians to look up to the West - it is a slavish, closed mentality. I see with disgust its garish exhibition in haircare

Not one of the 10 plus recognised Western Medical Therapies have clear cut answers or cures for hairloss control or dandruff. That says a lot about the Western Cosmetic formulations for haircare

Indian Gooseberry / Amla is rich in Vitamin C. Indian Sages and hermits in the Himalaya's took a lot of Amla / Amla based preparations. Did any Indian think about it deeply for a minute ? We slept.

Linus Pauling perhaps did that. He got his Noble Prize for Medicine, advocating the value and utility of Vitamin C. Linus Pauling had got a Noble Prize earlier for Organic Chemistry [ SN1 and SN2 reactions, if I recollect from memory, my 1966 Chemistry studies ]

 

Ayurveda - Strength and the weakness
     
    Indian Civilisation is over 5000 Centuries old. And the people survived and maintained their health with Ayurveda. That is the indominatable, unchallengable, history backed proof for its safety and efficacy.

That does not get negated or diluted by its poor popularity or practice today. On the contrary it only emphasises the need to collate the old data properly and scientifically and weed out the trash that has got enmeshed into it by shaddy practitioners and products

 

Balanced Diet
     
    Diet is irrelevant in most normal cases for hairloss. Excuse for some to loot easy money

The body makes about 40000 proteins from the food that we take - one reading. Who knows today, which one is needed ? None. Protein rich diet and such other fashionable statements are hyperbolic nonsense.

Watch TV. Poor people in Bihar, Eastern Uttar Pradesh or Somalia have more hair. Poor diet ? ! Perhaps the Astronauts take balanced diet on their flights. Check with NASA

 

Baby Oil
     
    Till / Sesame oil / Olive oil is a good and proven baby oil. It contains Essential Fatty Acids also [ EFA ]. Olive oil is chemically similar to Till Oil

 

One Expose: cheap formulation and near baseless excuse by Johnson & Johnson
   
  Formula and other details are from case filed by FDA of Maharashtra in the court. I chanced to come across this on January 1, 2008. The details are self explanatory
   
  M/s. Johnson and Johnson Ltd has been issued licence in form –32 and 32A to manufacture Baby Oil with the following composition. Annexure- III.
   
  i)          Mineral Oil 99.785 %
  ii)         Tocopheryl acetete 0.1%  [ chemical name for Vitamin E is alpha tocopherol ]
  iii)         Vitamin A  &  D3 mixture 0.1%
  iv)         Perfume 0.015%
   
 

        The formula shows that, Johnson’s Baby Oil is almost totally Light Liquid Paraffin [LLP] to the extent of 99.785% (the company had not even mentioned L.L.P. on the label).

Note: From the order passed by Foods & Drugs Administration on 5th May 2005

'Johnson & Johnson's Baby products shall carry prominently safety warnings regarding the side effect that may be caused on account of these products due to the presence of Chemicals like light Paraffin Oil, Iso Propyl Myristate etc'

This was a watered down order for the 8 Baby products of J & J . After all J & J is a US company. Similar watered down order was passed on Himalaya Drug Company on their baby nourishing oil. To know the details, search in Google for J & J baby oil and Maharashtra Government.

The Indian Medical Hospitals / Institutes reports will support the use of Vegetable Oils on babies. The show goes on - We are ignored because we do not count as much as ..........

 

Baby Shampoo - Test it on yourself first. That precaution makes more sense than advertised brands
     
    J & J sell Baby Shampoo. The baby shown in the advertisement [ Chote Ustaad programme ] appears to be less than 18 months old. Has it been tested well ? I doubt.

Traditional Indian Cleaning powders like Bengal Gram powder and natural Shikakai powder are safe - they have been used for Centuries

 

Blow, blow the Winter's wind, thou art so unkind - William Wordswoth
     
    Touch of oil on the skin / oil massaging / oil bath is a good protection in winter. Oil on the head will help the skin from cracking - the white cracked skin is sometimes mistaken as Dandruff. Butter / Ghee on the lips keeps it soft and intact. On the heels, any domestic, vegetable oil would do.

The affluent, internet browsers should of course use perfumed petroleum jelly in attractive packages and brand names to keep up with the Jones

[ Petroleum Jelly is paraffin wax dispersed in High boiling solvent - the last waste before tar in petroleum distillation - normally called Lubricating Oils, if mixed with anti knock compounds by fuel sellers ]

 

Blackening the Hair
     
    There is no medical remedy for turning a grey hair or original black hair dyed into any other colour, to restore it to Black colour. The cosmetic traps of using, normally toxic dyes, is a shallow cover up. Dyes speed up Greying and itching.

For many routine Cosmetic / Appearance enhancing needs, there is no easy Cure - Medical limits [In computer, there RGB / Red, yellow and Blue colour scale. You cannot get perfect black with it]

In my opinion, free combing aid page / suggestion is a better option than Dyes. Being single handed, I could not research further into some other findings of mine, observed / noted over the years. So you have to test out this idea on your own.

 

Braiding - necessary
     
    Proof: Take about 200, 30 inches / 75 cms long thin cotton threads, tie them at one end closely like head hair and hang it from a clothes line. After 24 hours, you can note that not all can be separated. If you hang it out in the Sun, 30 to 40 strands may have got tangled and cannot be separated. Will not the same thing happen to the head hair ? Think and decide.

Lubricating the hair with Oil is necessary to avoid static electricity, combing ease and keeping the skin, itch resistant. Even the normally less educated village barber, lubricates the hair for ease in cutting. And the water dries up / evaporates after some time. So, for longer lasting lubrication, Oil is needed

 

Brushes - comb is better
     
    Just try to brush one old tooth brush with another. You will notice the friction and scope for clotting - case worsens in dry hair. Comb is better than Brush to part the hair

 

Colouring
     
    Artificial Colouring can normally be done with Dyes or Pigments. Medical Tablets and edible items should be coloured with safe, edible dyes. Very many different dyes are available.

The hair colouring dyes of L oreal or Godrej, as checked on 23-2-2008 in a saloon, are toxic and can have allergic reactions also for some

It is a dye that gives that bright, vivid green, artificial colour to Amla based Hair Oil of Dabur. Buy Amla anywhere in India. Amla / the juice, will be very pale yellowish green

 

Colour Fade / fading   -  recall of two old advertisements
     
    An advertisement battle raged between Hindustan Unilever and Proctor & Gamble, about 10 years back on TV to demonstrate the super cleaning power of their detergents, with emphasis on Reliance and Bombay Dyeing Clothes

The message used to be that the colour does not fade even with 40 or 60 washes. For clothes, they could not test or demonstrate the impact with 1000 Washes.

Even if shampoo is used once a week, hair would undergo minimum 40 X 52 = 2080 washes by a 20 years old person, given Indian Life expectancy of 65 years plus. Can the hair colour fade / get effected ? Think it out

 

Conditioners -Touching the nose in a round about way
     
    Conditioners restore Balance - how ? The seller does not know what is needed for the hair. If he knows, he can make the nutrient to grow hair. Shakespeare - He does not know and pretends to know - Hypocrite. Ignore him. Conditioners contain oil for effectiveness, in decorative packages with ballooned up slogans.

Oil: Vegetable Oil like Coconut oil is an emollient. It would make the skin, soft and smooth. New born babies are given oil massages in all middle class Indian homes. It is a proven product of Centuries in India

 

Consumer Forums !
     
    CERC [ consumer Education and Research Centre ]

referred to me twice after 2001 about some misleading / over claims of Dr. Batra, some hair oils / creams claiming superlative powers like cure for headache, stress release and what not. I gave my scathing reply with relevant scientific background facts. I do not think that CERC took the trouble to educate / spread the message to the public - one of the many failures I noticed with CERC

 

Dandruff - Dandruff and Oil application are not related
     
    Dry Hair style has become a thoughtless, imitative fad in Indian Cities in the last 10 years. Anti Dandruff Shampoo market has grown from 300 to 1500 Crores today. The sellers fool the public with baseless claims and misleading / partial details for their antidandruff shampoo sales

refer  antidandruff shampoos  self contradicting claims of Hindustan Lever would become clear

 

Epic - Thought for Haircare
     
    Draupadi swore by her hair and kept that promise after 13 long years. How many, after age 30, can do that today despite the plethora of products and atrocious, never ending claims on TV

A poet does not write in a vacuum. So it means that the ancient Indians knew much more about hair preservation than Indians of 20th or 21st Century. We only have the slavish, white knows best, imitative mentality to import the latest Shampoo or even shampoo bottle cap

But for the hair, Mahabharata may have taken a different course. Alexander Pope would not have written 'Rape of the Lock' - only epic written about a trifle ! A mock epic - so what ?

 

Fairness Creams - High Blown, unethical Open Swindle
     
    refer  fairness creams   fair n lovely    anti marks cream

 

Glycerin / Moisturising agent and Fatty Acid
     
    Vegetable Oils can be simplified as 'Glycerated Fatty Acids'.

If 5kgs of Coconut Oil is reacted with one kg of Caustic Potash, the reaction products are Potassium salt of Fatty Acid, normally called Toilet Soap and Glycerin / Moisturing Agent. In the reaction, 5 out of 6 kgs is  fatty matter / oil. Refer Toilet Soaps to check how Soap is weakened with cheap materials

 

Grey Hair / Black colouring
     
    There is no medical remedy. Once the hair has been coloured, gaining back the black colour, is just about impossible. External colouring is artificial and temporary -with undesirable short and long term side effects. Dyeing normally speeds up greying and excess itching as per my interactions with hairloss sufferers between 1993 to 1998.

Dry hair style leads to premature greying  Dry Hair StyleFree Combing aid

       

Hair Fall Numbers     refer   Hair faq2
 

For my views on hair queries / topics,   H to Z,  refer      Hair faq2

 

 
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