Ok, that makes sense, and was what I kind of said in my first post about it - or tried to, anyway... I don't express myself well sometimes!

Pat:

 You can also use hair conditioner as fabric softener.

Pat, do you just squirt it in after the rinse cycle? Thanks, Lisa

LivingSimply:

Pat, do you just squirt it in after the rinse cycle?

Use it just like you would liquid softener. My machine has a place to put it, some don't. It should go in the last rinse.  

Leftover shampoo you don't like is good for quick clean ups in the bathroom. I am using up dollar store dish soap I don't like this way at the moment. In a pinch Avon bubble bath is great too. Make the room smell very good :)

Quote: Does anyone have a use for conditioner that doesn't work well?

 This may sound silly, but it really works. For foot care, after soaking my feet, I rub some hair conditioner into the tough skin. After a few minutes I rub it off and a lot of the dry skin rolls right off. If I have time I repeat it a time or two, always rinsing off afterwards.

Sharon

I go to an upscale hair salon (I know, I'll need to consider stopping that too) and my hairstylist suggested I only use shampoo on my hair every other day. When I was complaining that my hair was drying out this summer (swimming daily in my neighbor's pool doesn't help!) He suggested I only wash my hair with shampoo every other day and on the days I'm not washing it to rinse it really well and condition it. He said curly hair is dry and this will help. It does help, and I'm saving on shampoo!

Lauren

Gigi:

Using conditioner as a shaving lotion sounds like a good idea, but I use conditioner in place of shampoo. I have long curly hair, that given the right set of circumstances, has a will of its own. I read a book my daughter gave me, and that is how they recommend washing curly hair. Well, I tried it and I couldn't be happier. I have been using it exclusively for about a year. I also spray my hair with frizz reduction spray. I won't go back to shampoo. I use that to wash my hose.  

SapphireDrgn201:

If you like Suave, I'd just buy the real thing at Wal-Mart - it's just a tiny bit over a dollar there in cost
and alot of times the drugstores have it on sale for 88 or 99 cents.

I like VO5 shampoo.  I switched from Pantene ProV; (sometimes expensive);  until I found a bottle of the VO5 Strawberries and Creme at
Big Lots for $1.00 a bottle.  It lathers well and leaves my "weird hair" more manageable.  I have trouble with breakouts on my scalp with
the Pantene ProV, but still use the conditioner on the ends.

Priss' Granny:

I think it was my gynecologist that told me that. I have always been prone to yeast infections (actually allergic to candida) and never really wanted to risk it. I do, however, use bubble bath but not excessively.

Candida yeast has nothing to do with bubble bath.  It's a yeast that lives off of sugar.
I'd suggest maybe checking and keeping my blood sugar under control. 
 

My teen dd loved using Pantene shampoo/conditioner all in one on her long curly hair.  Now that she buys her own toiletries based upon a very small budget funded by us she has discoverd the $ store brand of this works just as good.   

When I was small, bubble baths always irritated me terribly.  I thought everyone (female, that is) experienced severe burning when they had that first pee after a bath.  I never told my mother because I just assumed it was normal.  Several years later, I began having repeat bladder infections.  At the doctor's office I told him about the burning after a bath and my mother was just horrified - she felt badly that she'd never noticed.  The urologist told my mother that tub baths were the cause of it and that I should only take showers.  According to the doctor, if a person is prone to difficulties this way, the chemicals in the bubble bath and the bacteria present in the water would aggravate the problem.  It would seem that some girls/ladies have a shorter urethra (the tube from the bladder to the outside) and are more likely than others to experience repeat bladder infections.  It isn't a cleanliness issue, but a physiological "how you are built" one.  Sure enough, I started taking showers (I was perhaps 10 years old and will be 40 in the spring) and my troubles in that area stopped by about 95%.  I have to be careful in hot tubs and such as well.  The more gentle a soap or shampoo though, I would think the better, in general.   I've never tried the "suave-ish" Dollar Store shampoos though...it goes on sale at the grocery store quite often and with a coupon ends up being free!!                                                Jill "better known as HERSELF" (guess who has a massive stockpile of Suave shampoo & conditioner aquired just this way? :o)