Tip #1: When my son was a baby, I kept a nursery jar of vaseline on
the window next to his bed (yes, I know, bad location!) One day just
after Christmas I went in to get him up from his nap to find vaseline on
the wall, the bed, the sheets, the curtains... and in his hair. I was
able to get it off everything else, but it wouldn't come out of his hair.
I tried everything-- from baby shampoo to dish washing detergent.
Finally, I tried the bar of glycerine soap my husband had put in my
Christmas stocking, and presto! One baby with very clean hair!...Suzi
Tip #2: My friend has a little girl who recently coated her hair with
Vaseline and after repeated washings, it still looked greasy. I
suggested using an egg. She beat an egg in a bowl, lathered it into her
hair, rinsed it out, and shampooed as usual. Worked great!...Laura
Tip #3: My ten-year old came home from camp today with her head
COVERED in Vaseline. We tried shampoo, Dawn dishwashing liquid, Go-Jo hand
cleaner, corn starch - all to no avail. Remembering that peanut butter
removed gum from her hair when she was small, I thought I would give it
a try. It worked like a charm!...Carmen
Tip #4: I got my tip from Vaseline themselves....use a hair dryer to
liquidify the vaseline, blot with paper towel, then wash hair with
shampoo that does NOT have a conditioner in it and repeat if necessary...Rebecca
Tip #5: I recently got Vaseline in my hair after putting it on a burn
and had a hard time getting it out. What got it out for me was simply
a bar of soap. Don't use shampoo. Just scrub your hair with a bar or
ordinary soap and rinse. I repeated about twice and it was all gone. This
was a day after I got it in my hair...Josh
Tip #6: I was listening to Esther Williams a while ago, mentioning
that her '50s and '40s hairstyles were kept together underwater with a
mixture of vaseline and baby oil. Then I made the mistake of getting the stuff in my hair. Head &
Shoulders shampoo is good stuff, and normally very effective - but it had no
effect on the vaseline. Five days running, and it was still in there
after repeated washings. Did keep the hair flat in a wind, though. I got it out with RC Cola. More than once. Just pour a little of it in
your hair and rinse. Repeat if you need to. It's quick, painless, and
uses stuff most of us have in the fridge. I haven't found any normal
soap (lye might work?) that could take out vaseline like Coke does. Simple
and effective. The police, I'm told, use RC, Pepsi, or Coke to clean away bloodstains
at the scene of messy traffic accidents.
Tip #7: After trying 6 different shampoos, pepsi, and corn starch, I
tried an almost forgotten sample of Burt's Bee's Mint Shampoo Bar as a
last resort. It worked!!!...Tobi
Tip #8: I had recently gotten head lice from some children I was babysitting. Luckily, I found it before my children also got it, or we'd have been in a real mess. I knew that the OTC treatments do not have a reputation of working, so the children's grandmother suggested the vaseline method. She said a couple rinses with dawn and it would come out, no problem. 1 bottle of dawn, 1 bottle of olive oil, a jar of peanut butter, 3 boxes of corn starch, and 3 days later, I could still pull off the Albert Einstein look. I was actually considering cutting my very, very thick, mid-back length hair, that I've been working on growing out for a while now, off. In my desperation, I went to WalMart to the auto section and grabbed a bottle of the orange scented pumis you use to get grease off your hands. I started in the back, parting a row at a time and used my thumb and finger to kind of work it through the hair. I actually used the nail brush it came with to help run it through, but I'm sure a fine tooth comb would do the same, if not better, then took a paper towel and ran it down the hair to kind of pick up any excess. When I was finished, I used a comb and just did a quick comb all over. Then simply shampoo and conditioned in a warm shower, towel dried, picked out the tangles, then let air dry. Gone! I thought the scrub would damage my hair, but it actually left my hair feeling very soft and healthy, and was probably the easiest on it of all the methods I tried. Not to mention, it smelled great!...Candice
Tip #9: I put a relaxer on my hair and I'm Caucasian. I thought since my hair is very curly that maybe a relaxer would make it easier on me so I wouldn't have to straighten my hair every..single..DAY. Well, my hair definitely came out straight but one HUGE thing... it killed and fried my hair. My ends were coming off when I brushed through it and it was just a horrible mess. I cried for about an hour then I cut off the dead/fried terrible ends. It worked a little bit, but my hair was still poofy and dead, just not so smooth. So I decided that maybe vaseline would moisturize the texture of my hair. BIG BIG no no. I showered and washed my hair about 10 times in one night. Nothing. I looked on here and read other people's comments about using baby oil, baby powder, eggs, cornstarch, etc. I saw a comment with those two little words: peanut butter. I thought Hey! This is convenient. So I go in my cabinets lookin' for the peanut butter- BINGO! Found it! So I just rubbed the peanut butter ALL over my head. Washed it out in the shower, yes again, and GONE! Peanut butter really seemed to soak up the vaseline...Bree
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