Pickles by Brian Crane for April 22, 2021

No, neanderthals didn’t have soap or bathed either.

I used to do both shampoo and conditioner (even the PERT combination bottle), but now I just do shampoo.

I suppose Neanderthals may have had soap. It’s a pretty simple recipe.

About 40 years ago, my barber  told me to stop using shampoo* and start using the same soap I use on my body. I’ve been reasonably happy with the results: It’s less drying than detergent shampoo, it’s a lot less expensive too, even though I use moderately expensive (scentless) soap. There’s one less thing to keep track of, and one less thing to store in the shower. And my hair isn’t any drier than it used to be, probably less than it would have been w/ shampoo.

Trying to cut down on plastics, they are making bars of soap for hair and body in one.

Shampoo removes the natural oils in your scalp and conditioner puts the oils (well, different ones) back.

He’s not like a Neanderthal, he more likely is a Neanderthal!

Don’t soap or shampoo on my hair only on my body,just rinse hair what I have of it. with water.

What the fuss about the two threads of hair on Earl’s scalp !

My grandpa washed his with soap in the shower. Granted he didn’t have much hair and didn’t see the need for shampoo!

Soap vs. body wash, my brother and I have this conversation!

Using body wash, I get 2/3rds of my morning routine done at the same time… shower and shave. Won’t bore you with the 3rd 3rd, which coincidentally rhymes with “3rd”.

Never understood body was either. Just Irish Spring for me!

Earl’s getting to the point where “hair” may end up being in the singular…

I use Dr. Bronner’s Peppermint Castile soap. You can wash your face, body, hands and hair with it. You can also use it for shaving, brushing your teeth, rinsing fruit, aromatherapy, washing dishes by hand, doing laundry, mopping floors, all-purpose cleaning, washing windows, scrubbing toilets, washing dogs, controlling dust mites, ants and aphids. The label makes for good reading too.

Not to get too political, but Biden says a lot of us are Neanderthals.

And the rivers and streams

once so clear in our dreams

have turned slowly into murk

where used bath waters lurk.

Future anyone?

I remember this comic. Surprised to see it’s from 2007. Coulda sworn it was just a couple years ago…

I know people that will use shampoo all over. I think there are some products out there that are shampoo/conditioner/body wash.

Me in the store: Hello, where is the shampoo? Clerk: Sir, you are in the haircare aisle. Me: You don’t understand. I don’t want conditioner. I don’t want shampoo plus conditioner. I don’t want shampoo with fruit or flowers in it. I don’t want shampoo that costs five times as much because it has a fake French or Italian name on the bottle. I don’t want shampoo that will enhance my highlights because these days, my hair is all highlights. I don’t want shampoo that will build body because I don’t have enough hair left to built anything out of. At my age, no shampoo will ever make me look young, attractive, or appealing. So I just want shampoo. Plain and simple shampoo. Clerk: Oh, sir, they haven’t made THAT in decades!

Oy!

Suppose Little Missie uses a wash cloth too.

My dad did that.

Michael Savage would agree with Earl.

I was just glad to get my husband to use something other than Prell on his hair—he was addicted to that stuff for years and it is more suitable for degreasing engines than being used on any part of a human body.

There was a family friend in my home town who used Tide detergent. Then again, both he and my dad owned appliance stores, and got tons of free Tide.

Plus , there is no Roscoe today . So who cares what he uses to wash his hair . The whole day is a wash .

Well, considering that the top of his head is rather barren…..

No, he just doesn’t buy into all the cosmetic crap being hyped

No. He’s a man. We don’t subscribe to the soap for this, scrub for that, shampoo AND conditioner.

Given it’s mostly skin up there anyway.. a soap bar works just fine.

A good tub of Turtle Wax and a buff rag and I’m good to go. 8>}

Andy Rooney, in one of his commentaries on 60 Minutes said he did that. I mentioned that to my mother. She said she didn’t like Andy Rooney’s hair.

My sister said hair will look better if you change shampoos periodically. It’s as if your scalp adjusts or “gets used to” shampoo you’ve been using for a while.

He’s no Neanderthal! An Australopithecus, maybe…

Less dry, I find, if it’s cut to 3 millimeters.

For Earl, a drop of shampoo oughtta do it.

The first documented use of soap is described on a cuneiform tablet found in Girsu. According to chemical archaeologist Martin Levy, the tablet was written 4,500 years ago and concerns the washing and dyeing of wool. To properly dye wool, a weaver must remove the lanolin fats from the textiles, which is accomplished far more easily with soap. Even today, weavers wash freshly sheared wool in soapy water to remove the lanolin.

https://time.com/5831828/soap-origins/

The History of Soap – Soap Inventors and OriginsThe first concrete evidence we have of soap-like substance is dated around 2800 BC., the first soap makers were Babylonians, Mesopotamians, Egyptians, as well as the ancient Greeks and Romans. All of them made soap by mixing fat, oils and salts. Soap wasn’t made and use for bathing and personal hygiene but was rather produced for cleaning cooking utensils or goods or was used for medicine purposes.

http://www.soaphistory.net/soap-history/

My mother gave me the same reaction when I told her that I showered and washed my hair with L-A-V-A soap. I was in high school at the time!

My Doctor said to not use any product, including soap, on my body — just water from the shower. He said it washes essential oils from the body and I should only use soap/body wash on face, armpits and crotch. I use combination hair and body wash on these areas.

Wait. There is something other than soap to clean yourself with? What’ll they think of next?

she looks 20ish, he looks 70 something..hmmm

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it !!!

Nope, just an old man with very little hair and no care.

I tried using Ivory soap on my hair and found it left a dull sheen on it.

My dad only used “pink” Dove! RIP Daddy!

Long ago, I went the other way — washing the rest of me with the same shampoo I use to wash my hair. In essence, I invented body wash.

Hey, some of my best friends are Neanderthals!

Was Grandpa a Marine?

Brenda Starr used soap. I remember as a kid… it was a big deal, so the soap company wanted to use her as a spokesperson because her hair was beautiful.

Current political jousting aside, Our civilization is due, in large part, to interbreeding with the Neanderthal. They had large brains and were quite intelligent.

I wash my hair with the same soap as the rest of my body, it’s liquid soap, but I don’t care to have a separate soap for hair.