Monday, August 09, 2004

Word from the Horse's Mouth

My parents tried to sell me to the idea of using a horse's shampoo and conditioner. There is such a thing. And this phenomenon is catching on to the middle to old age demographic (ie. your parents, aunts, uncles etc) It's their apparent miracle hair growth, the hope for the declining tresses. I just wondered who was the first person who experimented an animal shampoo on himself and thought this is good enough for our race, it's like an alternate world where a marketed product is tested on humans.

So, to the closet Pinoy who roamed the aisle of the pet care supply of the local Longs or Walgreens looking for a set of Kabayos or Mane n' Tail...you don't have to pretend that you are breeding a horse in the middle of the suburbs. For the sales clerks have understood our demands and hoarded ways to put a horse mane shampoo where it belongs, health and beauty care products lane. We surely deprived a breed of horses their beautiful mane, shame shame shame. Perhaps we deserved the blue ribbon more, after all once we send the precious bottles back home in the Philippines we repackaged the stuff in smaller cases and sell it for thrice of what it's worth. Enterprising...hmm...

(a big bottle of Mane n' Tail shampoo and conditioner sells for $7 each. A repackaged container sells for almost $20, it's like four smaller bottles)

The current feedback that I'm getting is that this product really works (less dandruff, thicker and softer hair) The long term effect though has yet to be concluded. Although no horses have died from using the product.

(PS Somebody thought, too, that Mane N' Tail was *made* from a horse, hence the product name, and never even considered reading the ingredients)


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