Why is it six of one and less than half a dozen of another?

[dreamflower]

Okay, I was in Walmart. For several weeks, I've been wanting to try a new shampoo and conditioner--but every time I'd go to buy it, they would be out of the conditioner. Now I was out of shampoo, and really needed to buy it, but I didn't want to without the matching conditioner. One of the associates was stocking the shelves, and she found six bottles of the conditioner that had just come in. She told me that the conditioners always sell out faster than the shampoos, and that she always runs out of conditioner before she does the shampoo. Now me, I always run out of shampoo first. But since I always use about the same amount of both whenever I shower by all rights, I should run out of both at the same time!

So, here is a burning question of great significance.


[Poll #1253806]

Comments

[baranduin.livejournal.com]

It's hard to say. I use multiple shampoos (one a gentle one for every day and another for color-treated hair that I just use a couple times a week. And I use multiple conditioners, one a gentle and one for color-treated hair, mostly alternating one with the other. My gentle shampoo I buy in an enormous bottle with a pump. It tends to last about a year. The others are all in much smaller sizes and it's sort of variable when I run out of each individual one.

Hm. I never quite realized my hair shampoo/conditioner situation was so complicated :-)

[dreamflower]

I used to use two or three different ones, but I got tired of all the bathroom clutter. Now if I want to try a different product briefly, I just get the little trial sizes.

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

I have to shampoo twice, as I have lots of fine hair that gets built up with residue very easily, but is frizzy so I need to use product to tame it. Whereas I sometimes forego normal conditioner for the leave in variety.

[dreamflower]

Ah, now I don't "repeat"! But I still run out of shampoo first!

[aspenjules.livejournal.com]

Well, I wouldn' actually know the answer to this, because I share shampoo and conditioner with hubby and sometimes kids, so it would be difficult to determine normally.

However, a couple of months ago I got my hair cut at a nicer salon, and being the sucker that I am, I got talked into buying a 'good' bottle of shampoo and one of conditioner. You know, the kind the stylists don't turn their noses up at? LOL Anyway, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one using them, and the shampoo is only half gone, but the conditioner is about 3/4 gone. So, apparently I use more conditioner, although I thought I was using the same amounts.

[dreamflower]

My hubby doesn't share. He uses his own brand, a very strong medicated variety. So I know that what I use is what *I* use.

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

I have thin hair, so I use Burt's Bees shampoo for extra body. I've never found a conditioner I liked, so I stopped using them.

[dreamflower]

I have a Burt's Bees *pre* conditioner, that I use about once a month. You put in on the ends for about 10 or 15 minutes before you wash your hair. I really like it.

[fantasy-fan.livejournal.com]

We buy shampoo and conditioner in big bottles with pumps from Sam's Club. And we use the shampoo up twice as fast as the conditioner. I think this is because my daughter and I use conditioner and the rest of the family (the guys) don't.

[dreamflower]

I don't have anyone else to share mine. The DH uses his own particular brand, and there aren't any kids at home to use it either.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

My hair is longer now so I need conditioner or I will never comb it out, so I use about the same amount as I do shampoo. :)

[dreamflower]

I have long hair too, which is the main reason I use conditioner. Also, I sometimes use a spray-on detangling product, especially if I have been exposing my hair to pool chemicals or lots of sun.

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Conditioner runs out first, always.

[dreamflower]

That's so interesting! I wonder why the differences!

[obeliamedusa.livejournal.com]

I'm with you; shampoo always runs out first! In my case, it's probably because I shampoo my hair twice every time I wash it, and use the conditioner just once. Lately I've taken to buying a "family size" bottle of shampoo and a regular bottle of conditioner. Then they run out at the same time! :P

[dreamflower]

Well, now, I'm not a "repeat" person! I just don't understand why they don't run out at the same time!

[meneleth.livejournal.com]

I picked the last answer LOL. Our shampoo/conditioner cycles are mixed. Meg & I use shampoo & conditioner. Hubby only uses shampoo. I use regular conditioner unless I've just colored my hair, in which case I use that conditioner for a couple of weeks. Plus, we use 2 different shampoos, and the shampoos and conditioners are not in the same size bottles. So sometimes we need one shampoo or the other and sometimes we need conditioner. I can't remember ever starting the same size shampoo and conditioner at the same time.

[the-arc5.livejournal.com]

Me (and the other female members of my family) always run out of conditioner first. I have no idea why, because I use about the same amount of each product, and I'd even say more of shampoo, if we're splitting hairs. (Har, har. Bad pun.) My extra special based-on-real-live-science theory is that shampoo is denser than conditioner, and so there's actually more usable shampoo in the bottle than there is in conditioner bottles, conditioner bottles containing more air per square centimeter. Or similar.

(I am not a scientist, I'm an English major, so if I'm picking daisies in left field...let me be, you won't get anywhere with correcting me anyway.)

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

I don't use conditioner every time I shampoo. If I do, my hair ends up feeling odd after the fifth or sixth subsequent conditioning. So, I just use shampoo for the next two hair washings, and use conditioner after that.

I've only found two conditioners I can use at all. The rest leave my hair feeling odd, rather stiff and sometimes sticky, every time I use them.

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

I didn't use conditioner at all rally untill recently wheng my hair decided to be one big knot and I couldn't get it combed out properly unless I used the conditioner or hair cure with every wash. I used to have so slick hair that nothing would stick unless it was glue, but that's changed somehow. I guess I run out of shampoo first because I use a bigger amount or because the conditioner is thicker.