Hotel shampoo

[vakkotaur]

Product labeling can be amusing. I recall seeing some items in a grocery store, such as "Devil's Fire" (or similar name) brand salsa... Extra Mild. And lettuce or spinach in a bag that proclaimed "Triple washed" with instructions to rinse before using. The hotel's little bottle (bottle-ette?) of shampoo tells me it is not merely shampoo, but cleansing shampoo. Uh, isn't that the point of shampoo? I can only imagine what looks I might get at the front desk if I were to insist that I needed some non-cleansing shampoo.

Comments

It's not impossible...

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

"I want shampoo that makes me smell like a sewer!"

"We're all out of patchouli, sir."

Re: It's not impossible...

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Egad, it is possible. I have seen (and smelled, and utterly rejected) patchouli soap.

As Patton Oswalt says:

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

"Try on some patchouli oil! You'll smell like dirt that's been fucked by a hobo..."

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

I can only imagine what looks I might get at the front desk if I were to insist that I needed some non-cleansing shampoo.

... which includes grit, bits of food, and dead bugs in the container!

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

That's ad-speak for "claims to get residues off your hair that other shampoos leave behind." As opposed to "moisturizing shampoos," which allegedly restore the moisture other shampoos suck out of your hair, "conditioning shampoos" (much the same), etc., etc.

[thecanuckguy.livejournal.com]

And in Canada you'd get shampoo that was labelled "shampoo" on one side, and "shampooing" on the other side (due to bilingual packaging laws). So, just in case you get the shampoo and look at it and wonder "well now what the heck would I use this for?" you turn it over "ah! Shampooing!"

(Apologies to Canadian comic Derek Edwards)