Comments on: Removing Vaseline/Vaporub from hair

By: veronica

veronica — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:52:01 +0000

Well this morning me and my husband woke up to see jordan (my two year old son) and jonathan (my 10 month baby) playing. We thought it was okay to let them ply and rest for a lil while more. My husband woke up because the two boys were making a lot of noise……… That is when he saw jordan happily playing with vicks babyrub on jonathan’s hair. Jordan already had some on his hair which made it even a bigger problem. We have showered both once already but no luck. Jordan hs a history of putting greasy things (like vasoline,lotion, sticky gel) on his hair… We thought that since he is a lil older that habit would go away but I guess it is not…… I guess Jordan has decided to recruit his brother to the put things on your hair club…….

Thanks for this tip…. I wish I would have decided to online to search for this tip a 2 years ago… So that I would have not being walking in the streets with a alfalfa boy with me every time he wanted to do a greasy hairstyle. Lmao.

By: IainsMommy

IainsMommy — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:26:52 +0000

I am so glad I found your blog!!!… we are in the process of cleaning my son’s hair right now… my husband washed about 10 times with baby shampoo and soap… rinsed in vinegar (bathroom REALLY stinks!)… and so I am getting ready to go clean with cornstarch… I will be right back…..

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Well, I rubbed cornstarch in for about 5 minutes.. .and you could almost immediately see a difference in the texture of his hair…after I rinsed the cornstarch I followed with Dawn (very carefully)… after I dried it it was SO much better, but still a little greasy, so I am keeping the cornstarch in his hair this time for about 20 minutes to see if it makes a difference…But it DEFINITELY works! Thanks so much for the tip!!!

By: Busybabygirl

Busybabygirl — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:59:20 +0000

My daughter found the vapo rub that I had put on my son the night before. She decided that it would be a great idea to put a whole lot of it in her hair. I have washed her hair three times now and really nothing has changed. I cant even stand to touch it. I am going to try this right away… THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:11:13 +0000

Well we used the Vaseline trick which actually did smother the lice and my son has not had it since. So I guess it works for some. Anyways I incorporated two methods into one. The only thing I could find to get the Vaseline out was Ivory and Aussie Mega Shampoo. Seemed to work though. I will say we had the shinest hair on the block. LOL.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:24:39 +0000

We had a problem with head lice (a 3 month long problem) and someone suggested putting Vasoline in our hair overnight. Well, we tried the bright idea and now myself (below shoulder curly hair), my oldest daughter (to the butt straight hair) and my baby girl (to the butt CURLY RINGLET DO NOT COMB TOO MUCH hair)have hair that looks like we could make oil based sculpters out of it. I have tried everything on myself (I’m the guiney pig)… Dawn dishwashing liquid, Gojo, Borax, Tide, Vinegar (which really really BURNED)! So my next try will be the corn starch. Thanks for the tip and if you have any more suggestions pertaining to our lovely eventful lives at this moment fighting Head Lice (they are winning) PLEASE email me!!!

THanks
Adrienne

By: Cara

Cara — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:05:22 +0000

Hmmm…I wonder if this would have worked on the Desitin that my 2 year old niece smeared all over her head a few months ago. I’ll have to remember this one for my own kids, too!

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:06:09 +0000

Wow! Vapoprub in the hair just happened to the girls a few days ago. Since they are still sick I haven’t really worried about it too much. But now, thanks to you, I know what to do!

Have a great Thursday!

By: Merci

Merci — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:46:24 +0000

Great idea!! Never would have thought of that. DAWN dishwashing liquid works pretty well too – takes grease out of your way

By: Connie

Connie — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:29:39 +0000

LOL I wish I would have known that 15 years ago when my son had an obsession with putting vaseline in his hair. Seriously he climbed the linen closet shelves to get to it. Not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES!!! Dawn dish detergent did a pretty good job too. And yeah, I never will let him live that down.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:47:05 +0000

What a great idea! That you hopefully won’t ever have to try.