Does anyone know if you can make hairspray, if so how?

thanks in advance!

-- fred in wi (sixuvusmeyers@aol.com), September 22, 2001

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Response to Homade hairspray?

You can diutle lemon juice 50% with water and spray on your hair with a spritzer bottle-or rinse your hair with full strengh lemon juice and set immedently-it will hold your 'do!

-- Kelly (markelly@scrtc.com), September 22, 2001.

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I believe they also used to use a sugar-water mix, although I wouldn't recommend it in bee season!

-- Soni (thomkilroy@hotmail.com), September 22, 2001.

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I've heard of the sugar-water mixture for hairspray but also heard complaints when it was time to wash it out.

-- Charleen in WNY (harperhill@eznet.net), September 22, 2001.

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Nix on the lemon juice formula unless you want bleached and dry hair (even if you do dilute it). It WILL bleach it out (simular in time to peroxide) especially in the sun, and will dry it out Really quick! When I was a teenager we used that formula at the beach to bleach out our hair. But when you then swim in a pool, the clorine can turn it green over time.

-- Karen (db0421@yahoo.com), September 22, 2001.

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Starch! Yes plain old laundry starch. I buy the concentrated liquid and dulute with water about 50/50. You may have to adjust your ratio. I use a spray with a fine mist. Works great and hair is easily brushed through. And the smell is wonderfull. Just like freshly ironed shirts.

-- Carol B (ankc@seark.net), September 22, 2001.

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I am bald!!!

-- Mark in N.C. Fla. (deadgoatman@webtv.net), September 22, 2001.

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Can't help you on the hairspray as such but...I spin and have grown flax in the past. One thing I learned is that ladies in past generations used flax seed mixed with water as a setting gel by soaking the seeds in cool water. They would form a gel that could be used on the hair or on warp for weaving as it made the individual strands less subject to abrasion during weaving. If you do make the flax seed gel, you can store the unused portion in the refrigerator for several days. If you want more information, email me and I'll see what I can look up for you.

I did a living history talk including flax several years ago for an Extension group. One of the older ladies there said she could remember when she and her sisters set their hair with flax seed gel and that they also used it to remove particles from the eyes. She said her mother would slip a flax seed into the eye and when the gel formed, it would get stuck in the gel and be easier to remove. I can just see some opthalmologist cringing at that one. I've never tried it.

-- marilyn (rainbow@ktis.net), September 22, 2001.

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fred, if you just want to keep your hair in place use what the American Indians did -- bear grease.

-- Joe (CactusJoe001@AOL.com), September 22, 2001.

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Hay Mark im getting there too. Bob se,ks.

-- Bobco (bobco@kans.com), September 22, 2001.

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There are lots of sexy bald men ! Wish I could shave my head it would be so much easier .

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), September 23, 2001.

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well you can nowadays Patty. I sometimes see women with shaved heads in the city. ;)

-- Dave (something@somewhere.com), September 23, 2001.

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she did.

-- Dave (something@somewhere.com), September 23, 2001.

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Thanks Dave but I also don't like looking like a freak ! It would be much easier .

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), September 23, 2001.

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lol, well I just thought I'd give you a little encouragement in case you were considering it. ; )

-- Dave (something@somewhere.com), September 23, 2001.

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Oops! I'm sorry-Karen is absulutly right, lemon juice will bleach out your hair if you go out in the sun-I thought you wanted hairspray for like a one time occasion, I didn't think about a daily application. My appologies.

-- Kelly (markelly@scrtc.com), September 24, 2001.