What's your favourite shampoo and conditioner? I'm still trying to find one I like that does a good job of leaving the hair..... ahhhh.... clean and conditioned...

Pureology Anti-fade complex. You can get it at Target or Amazon.

It's EXTREMELY rare that I shampoo the unit itself.
The current one I've been wearing for almost three months and it's seen shampoo maybe once.
The ends get shampoo'd as I wash my own hair in the shower, but that's about it.
If you don't use much product, or none at all in your hair (unit's hair) there's really not much need to shampoo it frequently. Most everything will simply rinse out with water.




Fred

It's EXTREMELY rare that I shampoo the unit itself.

How do you clean the Desolvit (or what have you) off of the unit without shampoo or dishwashing liquid?

- Darius

Went to a Target here in oz and they never heard of pureology...

You can buy it online.

I am NOT winding you up. WATER, H20, plain old aqua.

After wearing, at clean-up time, I just use a mirror slide to get rid of tape and/or glue residue, then put a dime-sized amount of Pantene conditioner after spraying w/Nearly Natural. Leave it on for one minute and rinse out w/water.

IMO the wig hair needs no conditioner whatsoever. I use spiking gunk and sprays daily since I spike it up and plain old water washes it away just fine.

Darius wrote:
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How do you clean the Desolvit (or what have you) off of the unit without shampoo or dishwashing liquid?

- Darius
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I don't use Desolvit or anything that leaves a residue that requires cleaning.
I (currently) use the NRT (No Residue Tape) around the sides and in the back and Base Bond in the front.
I release with 99% alcohol and, if any Base Bond residue remains on the lace in the front (usually none or just a tiny spot here and there) I immediately mirror slide it off before the alcohol evaporates.
The lace is left spots by the alcohol. The NRT leaves no residue.

I don't use any product and just occasional condition with a spray, leave in conditioner.




Fred

I use base bond to but my cleanup is messy and time consuming. I release with alcohol but there is still a lot of glue stuck to the base. I can get it off with mirror slide but it only seems to work if I wash the unit with shampoo first then fan dry it, otherwise it don't work. Then I shampoo again to get off any glue that might have come off base but stuck to hair during mirror slide, then condition. I don't know how you guys do it so easily. It takes me about an hour and a half to clean it, then another 45 minutes to reattach after it's dried properly.

I am NOT winding you up.

No, but I'm sure you're going to zapp me with blipvert, aren't you?

Thanks for the tip, Maxx and Fred! I'll have to try that.

- Darius

pureology, anti fade, cvs carrie's it, condistioner,loreal, for color treaded hair (orange bottle) i wash and condistion every day and never had any problem after all the 20 plus year's of wearing, i also remove every day so this might be why i never had the problem's

'Blipverts' were outlawed in movie theatres in the U.S. in the 1950s or 1960s (as in 'buy popcorn' flashed quickly on the screens), but nowadays everyone seems to have forgotten all about that. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Max Headroom (from where the term blipvert was coined [for me at least]) was pulled from the air not because of bad ratings, but because the politicos/corporatists knew that it was exposing tricks by elites/corporatists that were too close to the truth IMO.

Regarding unnecessary tricks, try cleaning the wig hair w/just water and see how it works for you. I think that you might be pleasantly surprised. This was not my original idea, I read at sometime on this forum and it works for me.

Good old Creme of Nature is an excellent shampoo/conditioner/detangler. It's less than $5 at WalMart.

YEP AGREE WITH YOU ON THAT JOHN !!

Creme of Nature.........best stuff I have ever used !!

Got the Pureology shampoo & conditioner that a lot of people, like here......I was not impressed !!! Must be just me I'm sure !! Don't think I will ever use it again ! Think I used it once, maybe twice ??........went right back to
C of N.....Thats 60 bucks done the drain !! No pun intended

Anybody wanna buy it for......hmmmmm ??? 30 bucks plus shipping ?

johnny/albuquerque

No, because I just bought a bottle off Amazon for $20 plus shipping.

You're right Daniel, Target Stores in Oz don't stock Pureology products. Nor do any others here.

But you can get it online from Amazon - two bottle, one shampoo, the other conditoner:
http://www.amazon.com/Pureology-hydrating-Shampoo-Conditioner-35-00/dp/B0014JY88G/ref=pd_sbs_bt_title_1

Cost around AUD$89 including shipping and arrives within a week to 10 days.

Great stuff, lasts for ages (years if you don't over wash your hp).

Daniel wrote:
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I use base bond to but my cleanup is messy and time consuming. I release with alcohol but there is still a lot of glue stuck to the base. I can get it off with mirror slide but it only seems to work if I wash the unit with shampoo first then fan dry it, otherwise it don't work. Then I shampoo again to get off any glue that might have come off base but stuck to hair during mirror slide, then condition. I don't know how you guys do it so easily. It takes me about an hour and a half to clean it, then another 45 minutes to reattach after it's dried properly."

You're doing something horribly wrong if you have a lot of glue (Base Bond) stuck to your lace base after releasing with alcohol.

Most likely you're not waiting for the alcohol (you are using 99%, right ?) to do it's job.
Done correctly, released with alcohol, they'll be virtually nothing, glue wise, remaining on the lace.
- Apply the alcohol (I use a color mixer bottle with a long nozzle to get it right on the base where needed).
- Wait a couple of minutes, literally.
- Try and see if the lace is loose, as in will simply and easily lift up without sticking.
- If not, apply more alcohol and wait several more minutes.
The lace should simply lift right up, leaving all the basebond on the scalp.
The other thing is that you may also be using wayyyyy too much BaseBond and/or applying it too thickly.



Fred