Dandruff. Whatever happend to it?

Stained Class

When I was a young lad in the '70s/80s, there was all sorts of ads about shampoos that focused on this.

People gettin' their heads washed on one side with a 'useless' shampoo & 'thother side with shed 'n smolders or something like it.

What happened to the whole Dandruff craze & peoples obsession with it?

darkdubh

I remember those ads"Head and shoulders?""I diden't know you had dandruff". "I don't".Would have been mid 80's.

Sids Not

Stained Class wrote: »

What happened to the whole Dandruff craze & peoples obsession with it?

Its been taken over by the new obsession...........99.9% germfree hands...............:rolleyes:

darkdubh

There was a big scare about headlice briefly in the mid 80's.There was a leaflet sent around to the schools which I clearly remember.There was a picture of a girl in red dungarees on the cover ,crying and with little black things crawling down her forehead from her hair which i presume were supposed to be headlice.

Stained Class

darkdubh wrote: »

There was a big scare about headlice briefly in the mid 80's.There was a leaflet sent around to the schools which I clearly remember.There was a picture of a girl in red dungarees on the cover ,crying and with little black things crawling down her forehead from her hair which i presume were supposed to be headlice.

Funnily enough, people who get lice are the ones who have the cleanest hair.

Lice seem to like clean heads.

L1011

Better shampoos killed it off basically.

The light flaky stuff was scalp damage from crap chemical shampoos, the fungal stuff is much nastier and can't be fixed with consumer shampoo anyway, needs ketoconazole.

WindSock

I think the widespread epidermic dandruff scare was fuelled entirely by the vigorous marketing campaign by Head & Shoulders.

mikemac1

darkdubh wrote: »

There was a big scare about headlice briefly in the mid 80's.There was a leaflet sent around to the schools which I clearly remember.There was a picture of a girl in red dungarees on the cover ,crying and with little black things crawling down her forehead from her hair which i presume were supposed to be headlice.

Yep, the public health nurse came to the school, lined us up and checked us all for "nits"

Nurse clearly found something as I got a slip to take home and the Mammy was mortified, do the parish think she had filthy children

Had to use special shampoo, smell nearly knocked me out. Smelled similar to sheep dip. In fact it probably was similar


This wouldn't happen nowadays. People would complain if the public health nurse singled out some little darlings

WindSock

Even worse than your experience mikemac, I remember when we were about 5/6, and the nurse came into our school and told us to look in each other's hair for nits :eek:
I remember some had 'found' something (like we knew what we were looking for), most likely some dust or something.

Talk about an instant way to stigmatise a kid.

darkdubh

At the same time as the leaflet being sent out all the parents were issued with headlice combs,which had very narrow spaces between the teeth.My mother decided to try it out on me and nearly tore the head off me.I can still remember it to this day(shudders).