Natural Products paper shampoo
$4.90 at drugstore.com
Shampoo made out of paper? Do your best to ignore it. It comes in a red plastic case with 30 white sheets. You take a couple of sheets and massage them into your wet hair. It’s “ideal when travelling and hiking and can even be used with sea water!” the packaging says. And no need to worry about smuggling liquid shampoo through airport security. Instead of dissolving to suds, the sheets congeal into pasty clumps. After massaging gently (and then insistently), my hair was constellated with white blobs that looked, felt and smelled like papier-mache goop. I picked the lumps from my hair and rolled them into a ball the size of a marble. [ DAN ZAK, THE WASHINGTON POST ]
Dep M Groom hair pomade
$4.99 at mass retailers
Still rocking that just-out-of-bed hairdo? Then commit these six words to memory: Dep M Groom Texturizing Shine Grit. The name is a mouthful, but DMGTSG is actually a cheap hairstyling product that’s going to work wonders for your tousled coif. Take a tiny dab and apply it to your towel-dried locks. Never mind that it looks (and feels) like the contents of an Elmer’s glue stick — this scentless pomade will surprise you with its non-sticky hold and volumizing superpowers. DMGTSG is marketed toward men with edgier hairstyles, but it isn’t strong enough to pomp a pompadour. Anything more than a dab will turn your head into a sludgy mess. [ CHRIS RICHARDS, THE WASHINGTON POST ]
