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Random thought for the day

Gwolf said:
It has been so long since I smelled, I don't know if I mind or not.

Guess I will just stick to unscented Ivory, even if I do have to order it off the web.
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Funny timing of this... I'm in the process of trying find a shampoo that doesn't have 35 ingredients, including 3 acids, etc. Just yesterday, I looked at Ivory original formula.
Great minds, etc.
 
Product development - where do the idiots get the idea that somebody's head should smell like the fruit flavor ice cream menu at DQ?!

There was about 40 feet of shampoo products, floor to 8 feet high, down one side of the aisle at the grocery store, and they almost all were fruit flavored. People who live in the Southern regions of the Okefenokee Swamp don't want their head to smell like something good to eat. The second you step outside of a screened-in area, 97 out of 100 things that are flying want to bite you &/or suck your blood. The other 3 flying things out of 100 are the Life Flight helicopters evacuating tourists with bloody stumps who were trying to feed the 'gators on the canoe trails; or the one who decided to catch a pet cottonmouth to take back home for show and tell after summer vacation. The first 97 are mosquitoes, sand gnats, yellow flies, horse flies, and other flying insects looking for a meal. I damn sure don't want my head to smell like something good to eat in that blood sucking swarm.

I finally found one that said it was Aloe Vera flavored. That should not attract them too bad, but you could still eat it. Why does your hair need to smell good to eat? Ignorant shampoo makers should be making them with zero smell or with a smell like lemon grass, or something else the blood suckers don't like. The soap is just about as bad, but there is at least some soap for people with allergies, without any fruit flavoring added!
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This reminds of a trip many years ago. Myself, along with friends, went to do a rafting trip down the New River, I believe in West Virginia. One gal, not from our group, had strong fragrance about her. All the flying bugs were attracted to her and she just swatted at them all day. She did not have a clue why the bugs liked her so much. Not a bug bothered anyone in our raft. Our rafting group was so grateful she wore her perfume that day, because it kept ALL the bugs away from us because they were attracted to her.
 
BamaJohn said:
Funny timing of this... I'm in the process of trying find a shampoo that doesn't have 35 ingredients, including 3 acids, etc. Just yesterday, I looked at Ivory original formula.
Great minds, etc.
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Check the ingredient list on the web and you will find that the Ivory soap unscented is basically the exact same formula as the original Ivory soap, except that the unscented does not contain the fragrance that is added to the original. It has to specify in the ad where you order it from, that it is Ivory Soap Fragrance Free.

The Ivory Soap Fragrance Free does have a slight scent to it, but it is not an overwhelming scent like a truckload of rotten watermelons. It does not seem to attract the biting insects. I been using it for 30 or 40 years. I worked night shift a lot when I was working for the phosphate mine and the bugs swarmed around the lights at night. If you used any of the strong scented soap or shampoo, they would also swarm on you. The advertisements are wrong. It ain't the women that are attracted to you, it is the bugs.

The correct term has changed. Instead of searching for unscented, try searching for fragrance free.

"To determine if a soap is truly unscented, check the product label for "fragrance-free" instead of "unscented". "Unscented" often means a masking fragrance is used to hide the smells of other ingredients, while "fragrance-free" means no added fragrances or perfumes are included. Also, perform a smell test, as fragrance-free soaps may have a slight natural scent from ingredients, but shouldn't have added fragrance."


While I don't use the soap with no fragrance because of sensitive skin, the soaps with as little smell as possible also do not attract insects.
 
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Bfromla said:
LEARN? Like remember long enough to pass a test, sharing with random strangers to look superior (learn) **modern education **
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Nah, that's edif...edyo...edify... educ... Schooling! 😖

'Learning' is when you actually take on something useful from an experience! (y)

I suspect that like many others, I didn't really start 'learning' until I quit being sent to schools where they force fed me this 'schooling' stuff - and I like to think that I've been learning ever since! 😉
 
Good to know... don't think I could fit in one of those tiny little school desks anyway.

I was learning the entire time I was in school, because I usually had some science fiction paperback inside the book I was supposed to be studying. Not sure how many of the library's paperbacks got confiscated from me. Not a problem, because I would tell the teacher that was confiscating it the book was from the library, they returned them to the library, and I just went back and checked them out again in a couple of days, to finish reading them.

All the E.E. Doc Smith's 'Galactic Patrol' series were thin and easy to hide inside a science book. Didn't need to read anything from the Science Book. Born and raised on a farm. I knew more about plants and animals than the teacher did. It was hard to hide Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. That book was thicker than the school books.

It could have all been a trick to keep me reading books, but I don't really give the teachers that much credit. Other than that, I spent most of my time during high school inside the welding shop or the wood working shop. They knew I wasn't reading the book I was supposed to be reading, but they didn't usually bother me as long as I was not disturbing the rest of the class.
 
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