Consumers Beware: Have You Noticed A Change To Your Shampoo Lately?......

In case you've notice that the shampoo you've been buying all these years seems different - here's why.

Shampoo makers have altered their formulations slightly to make them not suds up or foam like they used to. Why? Because the tendency on the part of the user is to just use more shampoo for more suds. And guess what? You run out of shampoo faster because you use more per shampooing.

It's the latest in the attempts by companies to make more money. Now you'll be buying more shampoo to get the same results - hopefully - you will not realize that this is what they did and you will continue to buy more of their shampoo versus switching to a competitor.

Also - do you buy bleach for clothes washing. Well the container you buy might still look like a gallon container - but - look at the contents - it's now 3 quarts. And guess what they raised the price beyond what the gallon used to sell for.

Just pointing these two out - there are thousands of other ways these companies are making you the consumer pay more for less.

If any of you have any other examples - post them here so others in DU can benefit by knowing.

a huge bottle. Why would they change it?

Still, as my wife tells me, I have perfect hair. Any shampoo does the job.

I haven't noticed a change. :hi:

I use a bar of soap for the whole shebang, hair included. No muss, no fuss. But then again, Im a dude.. ;)

I loves me some Dollar Tree!

They don't make 1-pound packages anymore - now you get a can or bag of 14 ounces, or 13, or 12.5, but certainly not a 1-pound can.

Good thing the prices went down along with the weight, huh? :sarcasm:

A can of tuna is now 5 oz. I bet that can looks about the same as it did before doesn't it? Best check it out.

Try using 5 oz can of tuna in your Momma's tuna casserole recipe and see how that turns out.

Says so on the package, and Folgers wouldn't like to me after all these years.

last week and none of the bags were a lb, they were fourteen oz.

staples like beans, rice, flour, etc in 5 lb and 10 lb and 20 lb sizes. That's what I do. I won't go along with retail downsizing.

I wouldn't be caught dead buying one of those micro-bags at the grocery store.

of course this might be good. It keeps my ass from getting fat.

Whoops. Hit the button twice.

Sorry bout that.

It's an old and well known trick.

Since the water is soft

(Pittsburgh water is traditionally VERY hard)

(like those sold in salons) contain much lower amounts of suds-producing detergent, any hairdresser would tell you to use a minimal amount, regardless of suds. That said, too bad no one is getting out the message for all consumers.

Because of changes in temperature in the bathroom, any air inside the shampoo bottle increases and decreases in volume.

This, in turn, pushes the shampoo out of the bottle through the pump, whether you want it to or not.

The emptier the bottle is, the more air there is in the bottle, the more shampoo gets pushed out of the bottle and down the drain.

If you get a bottle of shampoo that has the old style dispenser, not the pump, hold on to it and throw away the pump.

If you can't do that, unscrew the pump from the bottle, so that the air pressure can escape through the cap instead of forcing the shampoo out of the bottle.

by adding ONE WORD to their instructions:

Wet hair.

Apply shampoo.

Lather.

Rinse.

WHAT was the ONE WORD added after "rinse?" :evilgrin:

Edward Bernays is required reading for anyone seeking to see the "big picture." Curtis Adam's documentary "The Century of the Self" available on BBC is also an excellent antidote for the effects of the commercial cesspool in which we're drowning.

in fact, in a bid to counter their evil marketing genius I now wash my hair half as often as before. Used to be every day. Now it's every other or sometimes every three days. Rinsing hair in between days seems to work just fine for me and my hair style.

The more often you wash your hair the quicker it gets oily. One week is pretty much the limit though.

I used to wash my hair every day.

On hot days sometimes twice a day.

But as I've gotten older I find I can go a week on one shampoo. The most I shampoo is twice a week.

It's less oily now than it used to be...whether from age or because the oil glands aren't being stimulated by constant washing, who knows...

I just got bored with hair care. My hair was waist length and that maintenance was a chore. :) It is definitely true that the longer your hair the longer you can go without washing, when I cut it I had to retrain it again!

only wash my hair may-be 3X's a week....and it seems just fine.

wash your hair every day. Bad to your hair, especially when it's dry, and not oily. And if you're not getting into real dirt, your hair can stand to be left alone for longer periods of time.

If I washed mine every day, it would look like the tumbleweeds heading down any part of the desert.

I use a mixture of 2 cups warm water with about 1/8 cp of baking soda - dissolved well. i usually make them in the plastic water bottle - easier to handle. Pour that over my head and work in well. Follow this with another mix of 2 cups warm water and about 3 ozs of vinegar as a rinse.

Of course i do a final rinse. It doesn't smell and it really cleans the scalp and leaves the hair shiny and smooth. i have thick shoulder length hair. I also color it and it hasn't affected the color.

It would look like a frizzball haystack if I did not wash it daily and I would not get a comb in it. I go through so much conditioner its crazy.

So you could use twice as much.
And you had to get your hair "squeaky" clean.
Of course all that twice-washed hair went from squeaky to crackly pretty quickly.
Et voila, you need to add a conditioner to put back the oil you just stripped out of your hair.

Genau!!! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

("Intercourse" has too many syllables, you see...)

Computer programmer found out -that one word was "REPEAT"

Only thing in the guy's shower was his dead body and the empty shampoo bottle...

or the taste and size of chocolate bars...it is all worse. My wife and I have been buying lots more natural food products, but for consumer products it is more difficult to find replacements such as laundry detergents.

with the mismatched huevos?

from The Office, on Leno. (Who is Ryan the temp??)

http://www.theinsider.com/news/126314_The_Cadbury_Creme_Egg_Conspiracy

on The Office. :hi:

who is Ryan the temp? :shrug: :hi:

which was the only reason to buy one in the first place.

Thought I got some stale ones.

1) Wet your hair thoroughly

2) Pour a bit of shampoo in your palm, no bigger than a half dollar

3) Distribute the shampoo through your hair - if it lathers up, that means your hair wasn't that dirty to begin with and you do not need to rinse and repeat. If the shampoo did not lather up, you need a second wash but you'll also require less shampoo - likely no more in your palm than the size of a quarter.

As for your claim, I would love it if you provided a link. The truth is the old rinse-lather-repeat ploy is why people waste shampoo. As far as I know, shampoo still contains surfactants.


*EDIT ADD* Another Pro-tip: Unless your hair is super oily, always finish your shampoo ritual with conditioner. Shampoo is only strong enough to lift dirt. It's the conditioner (oil) that grabs the dead skin and the rinsing off of that conditioner that gets rid of the bigger "bits".

my eyes.

When I had to open 2 cans to make the same tuna salad I had made with 1, I crossed tuna off the shopping list.

Mehhh....

some of the competitors did not want their product displayed beside that brand(for obvious reasons).

... it is no longer a problem at the grocery stores I frequent since they ALL are downsized.

first the milk was through the roof and then the ice cream was crazy. But in the last few weeks, the grocery stores have had sales on both ice cream and milk, and not just the store brands. Of course, the cartons ARE smaller. Yeesh.

It's lather in first., and lets keep it that way. Okay? :grr:

Pet food bags have been shrinking a lot. Purina One downsized their 20 lb back of cat food to 16 lbs.

I complained, and got a few coupons, at least. But I think it sucks!

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Canned chicken has lots more water that it used to contain.
Bakery sized loaves of bread are a lot smaller.
Potato Tortilla chip bags have remained the same, but the volume has decreased and the top of the bag is covered with writing or a border so you cannot see how empty it is above the clear window on the front.
Canned vegetables have a lot more liquid.

And when there is about to be a 'change' to a smaller container or in price, there is often a 'sale price' to clear out the 'larger containers' before putting in all new 'smaller containers' OR once the sale price ends the 'regular everyday price goes way up.'

Yes, it's "fun" to pay more for less. Yes, indeed.

But it pretty much is the same story all the way around. Look at tuna fish cans--once upon a time, each can held 7 oz. Then it went down a full ounce, to 6; now, it's 5.5, and we will still buy it, regardless. What used to be about two sandwiches per can is now just stretching out to a sandwich and a half.

It's with ice cream, too, which used to be a half gallon, and now is about 3.5 quarts, and I'm sure it will go even lower over time.

I thought it might be worth it to get some sort of class action suit going, to make each company announce when they were lowering the sizes or content of a product. Personally, I'm sure a lot of this shit got done under repugs' watch, and well, just another fuck-up without resolution.

The list is endless.

Er ... the scoop that is. I've been using a scoop that came with a box from years ago and it looks tiny in comparison :-)

They pump them into soap like crazy. Apparently, people connect lather to the soap actually working. In reality, the amount of lather has very little to do with the effectiveness of soap. Nevertheless, soap producers keep dumping more and more into soap just to make us happy.

that prices haven't gone up.

Yes, they came after us strongly..... implying that we were greedy to want and need those COLAs.

I'd like to know where they shop!

And why their hearts have shriveled.

so it was impossible to remove it and get the last couple of uses out of it ... that was the first and last time I ever bought that brand! :argh:

take a knife to containers

I PAID for that shampoo dammit:grr:

Actually, I found that if I use just a wee bit of shampoo to "wet" my hair, then rinse, I can get a nice head of suds going with a second lather and not have to use a lot.

I used to love that smell!

Inflation is taking shape not so much in the price as in the reduction in quantity/quality of products. However, I have begun to notice that my $100 buys less groceries than it used to.

Hmmmmmm...

All of my life I have been able to wash my hair (and I have long hair) only once, but over the course of the last year or so, I've had to wash it two and sometimes three times for it to be "squeaky" clean. I thought it was a change in my chemistry as I got older, and here it's just a profit motive. :nuke:

Just kidding.

If you got the same story I did as a child, that Baker's gave 13 items when a dozen were bought because a crooked baker who shorted his customers had once angered the king, who severely punished him (death, dismemberment? - don't remember) for it so to avoid punishment no baker took the chance and added the extra item. Guess that kind of thinking went out the window about the time Reagan became President.

According to Wikipedia, the punishment was to get one's hand chopped off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%27s_dozen

I always thought it was something merchants did to ensure customer loyalty, but that came later.

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A friend developed a sterilization procedure for his medical research about five years ago and in the middle of his work, the bleach companies made the changeover and he couldn't find any bleach in the old one-gallon size. He did have an old gallon bottle, though, and could compare it to the newer bottle. The newer bottle listed the concentration of sodium hypochlorite and it was higher in proportion to the smaller size such that the smaller bottle contained the same amount of sodium hypochlorite as the newer one. It also recommended using a smaller amount of bleach from the smaller bottle.

So if you add a quart of water to the three quarts of bleach at the new concentration, you end up with a gallon of bleach a the old concentration. This benefits the company by reducing the shipping cost, the environment by reducing the energy expended for shipping, and even the consumer by reducing the amount of space that the equivalent product takes up. They've done the same thing by concentrating laundry soap.

(And the old one-gallon size seems to be still available -- I have a one gallon bottle of some off-brand of bleach in my laundry cabinet -- if you want to make the comparison yourself.)

I'm not saying consumer product companies aren't above cheating the consumer, just that the example of the change bleach bottle sizes has more behind it. I've been noticing how the amounts in packaged foods are getting smaller and smaller, but the price isn't.