Organic Shampoos

[jbown345]

I don't really understand these new "organic" shampoos. How does rubbing mashed up, liquefied coconut in your hair actually help your hair?

[Sekhem]

At 2/16/11 07:59 AM, jbown345 wrote: I don't really understand these new "organic" shampoos. How does rubbing mashed up, liquefied coconut in your hair actually help your hair?

it cleans your hair without having to worry about some of the more prevalent chemicals in normal shampoo?

seems pretty obvious

[jbown345]

At 2/16/11 08:03 AM, Sekhem wrote: it cleans your hair without having to worry about some of the more prevalent chemicals in normal shampoo?

seems pretty obvious

Are these chemicals harmful?

[Sekhem]

At 2/16/11 08:10 AM, jbown345 wrote:

At 2/16/11 08:03 AM, Sekhem wrote: it cleans your hair without having to worry about some of the more prevalent chemicals in normal shampoo?

seems pretty obvious

Are these chemicals harmful?

not particularly

but some people are allergic or believe them to be harmful so organic shampoo is an option for them

the market is simply meeting demand

[RubberTrucky]

Actually, this should expand to every kind of organic product.
I'm growing weary of all those new age people telling how processed foods and products are bad because they are not natural and hence a health hazard. Then they swear that their organic products are the big shit and solve all the inconveniences without the need for all them chemicals.

Personally, i find most of these claims are just imagination. I mean, I mostly end up with products that are far inferior to the processed things and you need to get into the 'organic' feel to actually prefer them.

Soùme examples: My GF was once persuaded to buy clay to add to water as a way to improve her digestion. Well, that was what it was: mud. It tasted like dirt and it didn't do anything. Also, she tried organic shampoo to be relieved of an itchy scalp, but it only became worse. Been to a diaper exposition, where the women swore disposavdisposable diapers were riddled with chemicals that made the baby skin irritated. The fact is that disposable diapers don't really cause all that much rash and it's worse with organic non-disposable diapers (+the organic diapers really take up a lot of space)
Having eaten some organic food, it can taste well, but you need to resort to lame excuses as 'processed food has destroyed your taste budds' to account for why I don't like organic food more than regular food.

[HungarianSupermarket]

At 2/16/11 08:17 AM, RubberTrucky wrote: Actually, this should expand to every kind of organic product.
I'm growing weary of all those new age people telling how processed foods and products are bad

Not all processed foods are bad. "Processed" is a very vague term and it can mean a lot of things. Mashing a banana is processing it. You cannot buy unprocessed milk anywhere because that is unsanitary and there are laws against that.

But you should really avoid stuff that is high in preservatives and other crap like that.

[RubberTrucky]

At 2/16/11 08:22 AM, HungarianSupermarket wrote:

At 2/16/11 08:17 AM, RubberTrucky wrote: Actually, this should expand to every kind of organic product.
I'm growing weary of all those new age people telling how processed foods and products are bad

Not all processed foods are bad. "Processed" is a very vague term and it can mean a lot of things. Mashing a banana is processing it. You cannot buy unprocessed milk anywhere because that is unsanitary and there are laws against that.

Well, yeah sorry about that. I couldn't think of a more appropriate expression to indicate the opposite of 'organic food', the food that has been prepared in labs or in factories or has been sprayed with stuff developped through chemistry and so on.

Of course, there is pretty crappy stuff produced in factories, barely containing any trace of the natural deal (sugared up juice with fake fruit), but you can still have decent food from major companies.

[Gimmick]

At 2/16/11 08:22 AM, HungarianSupermarket wrote: Not all processed foods are bad. "Processed" is a very vague term and it can mean a lot of things. Mashing a banana is processing it. You cannot buy unprocessed milk anywhere because that is unsanitary and there are laws against that.

But you should really avoid stuff that is high in preservatives and other crap like that.

^ this, exactly right. Processed foods are bad, but like he said, it is a very vague term and usually it is misleading to say processed things are bad, but rather that processed foods high in preservatives are bad. So, I'd cut a potato, bake it, put salt on it, call it chips and ---baking it is processing it, so it is processed, but doesn't have any preservatives, so technically it is good.
TL;DR not all processed foods are bad.

[HooglyBoogly]

To be honest, companies are just producing anything and everything they can label as "Organic" in order to capitalize on this eco-friendly phase many people seem to be into right now.

I go to the store now and see crap like organic t-shirts and organic cotton. Seriously? I'd rather my shirt be grown with as many pesticides as possible. This makes the price cheaper anyway...

[IncendiaryProduction]

I wash my hair with asbestos.

[RubberTrucky]

At 2/16/11 09:33 AM, sanjeev98 wrote:
^ this, exactly right. Processed foods are bad, but like he said, it is a very vague term and usually it is misleading to say processed things are bad, but rather that processed foods high in preservatives are bad. So, I'd cut a potato, bake it, put salt on it, call it chips and ---baking it is processing it, so it is processed, but doesn't have any preservatives, so technically it is good.
TL;DR not all processed foods are bad.

Well, yeah. But take for example Lay's. Big company, but decent potato chips that can taste really well and even better then what you can ever bake. Why? They've got the research and the money to acquire the best taste for their potato chips. Sure, you can slice your own, season them up a bit and enjoy some hard earned self made chips. They can be even very tasty. but don't go all smug and start saying that these chips are better then Lay's because they taste far better and are far healthier than that chemical shit.

And that's not even including those weird hippy stores where they sell packs of tasteless soy products that passes as chips and they charge like 5fold the price for what you buy in a supermarket.

[Floofs]

At 2/16/11 11:58 AM, IncendiaryProduction wrote: I wash my hair with asbestos.

I wash my hair with soap.