Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.
Travel broadens the mind, especially in regard to what substances manufacturers have decided to put into shampoos.
I favor a shampoo whose main ingredient appears to be...shampoo. I know, however, that there's a healthy market for shampoos built around things we usually consider edible, floral, or medicinal.
Even so, I wouldn't have thought that pine tar would be high on the list of substances one should put in one's hair. Who would think of that?
Oh, Edgar Cayce.
J. L. BELL is a writer and reader of fantasy literature for children. His favorite authors include L. Frank Baum, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. He is an Assistant Regional Advisor in the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and was the editor of Oziana, creative magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club, from 2004 to 2010.
Living in Massachusetts, Bell also writes about the American Revolution at Boston 1775.
4 comments:
Believe it or not, I used to use pine tar shampoo. I think that it had some sort of health warning on the side and it smelled strongly.
when i was a kid i'd heard that nomads of the sahara used camel urine to strip oil from the hair as a sort of shampoo. i thought "gross" until this new shampoo came out called pert and one of the main ingredients was urea. I looked it up.
"...the main nitrogen-containing substance in the urine of mammals..."
of course now it's produced chemically, but still...
Personally, I prefer placenta shampoo. But only when I follow it up with bone marrow conditioner.
And those products make sense!
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