sorry !!!
my hair is about an inch long, my friend takes lemon juice for her daughters hair, apparently you put it in your hair and the sun makes it go blonde, have tried it on my kids at home and it did lighten their hair..could be worth a try... a JIF LEMON will do the trick

sharon

Lemon Juice in hair..............AGHHHHH it absolutely ruins your hair and certainly wouldn't be recommended by a hairdresser that's for sure. It strips your hair hence why the sun bleachs it

Thanks cyberspacekadette Im liking this thread more and more
its getting really interesting any other ideas and tips?
just getting in a panic over what sorts of stuff to take with me end up taking too much and leaving it behind lol
thanks sian..x

It strips your hair hence why the sun bleachs it

And peroxide doesn't? :-) The only way you lighten any hair is to strip out the natural pigment in it. And whether you use lemon juice or synthetic chemicals you're still damaging the hair and it's going to need lots of good conditioning afterwards. Even going darker means that unless you only use a wash-out surface colourant then you are still putting bleach or something similar onto you hair as the hair needs to be chemically treated in order to make it absorbent so that it will take up the dye. I'm not blonde (currently a fading brunette aiming for Helen Mirren-like silver!) but I think that I'd prefer to go down the lemon juice route because I wouldn't need to do a skin test to check whether I was allergic to the chemicals in it or not!

SM

I know what you are saying about chemicals SMA but lemonjuice? the flies will love it.

I know what you are saying about chemicals SMA but lemonjuice? the flies will love it.

Wasps, hornets,midges,

Sanjiiiiiiiiiiii

Lush do really nice shower jellies which are fantastic to rub over your skin when they've been put in the fridge.

I buy small travel-size shower gels, shampoo's etc or decant my normal stuff into travel bottles and keep it in my hand luggage. That way, when we get to our destination (usually India) we can freshen up without having to unpack everything and then go off to buy what we need for the holiday. We leave any leftovers out there and don't bring it back with us.

We buy clothes throughout the year as we go in December and usually leave them behind too. We take combat-style trousers and 3/4's, t-shirts and vest and only spend a few quid on each. We wear them to death and leave them behind.

The one thing we don't travel without is a couple of jars of Alta Rica coffee and the travel kettle. I love sitting on the balcony in the morning, watching the world come to life with my favourite coffee!

That sounds good about lush! I did see some small travel bottles but they cost 99p!

Travel bottles are a good investment and they can be used over and over again, saving pounds on wasted toiletries, and they also weigh very little when full

I don't know about your houses Jackie and Sanji but I don't have a big problem with flies, wasps and hornets in mine :-)

You don't need the sun, it's the heat which makes it work. Putting the lemon juice on and walking round with your head wrapped in clingfilm or a disposable shower cap will do it - doing this will make Henna work more effectively too - hence why it's a good idea to do it inside and in private! Or alternatively, you can use a hairdryer. I even know someone who puts lemon juice on strands of hair and then runs her hair straightners over it - it gives her a really nice highlights effect. I wouldn't want to take the chance on ruining the straighteners but it might be a worth a go with a cheap set.

As for me personally, well I'm letting nature take its course but I wish it would hurry up! The top growth is already a very nice silver but the hair at the nape of the neck is still very dark and my hairdresser has refused to do anything about it because she says my natural colour is still so dark that she wouldn't want to run the risk of it turning orange if she tried chemically bleaching it :-) Not the effect that I'm wanting at all :-)

SM

I don't know about your houses Jackie and Sanji but I don't have a big problem with flies, wasps and hornets in mine

I don't think me and Jackie were referring to using lemon juice in the house.
You do need the sun to make it work, it's not the heat, it is the chemical reaction of UV rays plus oxygen plus lemon that activates the natural bleaching properties of lemon juice and lemons being acidic are a natural astringent anyway.
The sun alone will lighten your hair, but at the same time strip it of natural oils, adding lemon juice will just speed up the process and you should never use neat lemon juice, it is a member of the citrus family and therefore photo- toxic and you could finish up with a burnt scalp.
All you will end up with by applying it in the house, is a load of split ends....but don't take my word for it You would be better off using Chamomile to lighten your hair, rinse, catching the water and rinsing a few times , although if using a few drops of essential oil in the warm water rather than Chamomile tea, just be careful that you are not in the early stages of pregnancy.

and back on topic.....
I usually buy my stuff from a catalogue, especially in the mid season sales, I can't stand shopping and faffing about in changing rooms.
Unless it was something very special like a wedding, then I also can't see the point of spending a load of money on clothes, just to have someone's brand name on it.
If I'm on holiday and fall down in the sand when I shouldn't be on the beach, then I couldn't care less, the clothes will wash or go in the bin.

Sanjiiiiiiiiiiiii

If I'm on holiday and fall down in the sand when I shouldn't be on the beach

*Pictures Sanji legless!*

Lol
That is so true
this thread is getting more and more interesting
any more tips and ideas
thanks sian x x

If I'm on holiday and fall down in the sand when I shouldn't be on the beach, then I couldn't care less, the clothes will wash or go in the bin.

Nowt wrong with that on holiday.... And that's the exact reason why I buy most of my holiday stuff from Primark - £3 t-shirts are pretty much 'disposable' if they get covered in suncream or 'cheeky vimto' stains...

We have a Matalan very close to us, they are brill & cheap for most things. Deb.

but don't take my word for it....click here

I'd rather not! It's a commercial site with a vested interest in selling you commercial hair products! They're never going to advise cheap DIY treatments! You don't need sunlight or UV to activate the bleaching properties of lemon juice - its acidic properties will do that all on its own. Next time you've got really grubby or stained fingernails from gardening without your gloves on or stained fingertips from peeling beetroot, cut a lemon in half and dig your nails and your fingertips into the flesh. Works on ingrained dirt too. I rescued a friend's mother's hands in time for her wedding by first getting her to work her nails into the flesh of the lemon half and then squeezing the juice into her hands and getting her to work it into them with a bit of granulated suger. Very stucky and messy but it worked. Pristine white skin and clean finger nails in record time. Worked far better than the hours of scrubbing she'd already subjected her hands too. Yes, they did need a good conditioning with a decent handcream afterwards but they needed that anyway in order to counteract the increasingly harsher soaps and detergents she'd already unsuccessfully resorted to.

I'm certainly NOT recommending its use on your hair but urine is a good bleacher too. Around my way, before the availablity of cheap chlorine based bleaches, the linen mills used to collect it for use in bleaching linen cloth!

SM

Yeah and my grandmother used to wash white tablecloths in lemon juice, but she had to hang them out on the line for the sun to activate the lemon juice and remove the stain, but what has this or your nail remedy got to do with the topic.?

Next time you've got really grubby or stained fingernails from gardening without your gloves on or stained fingertips from peeling beetroot, cut a lemon in half and dig your nails and your fingertips into the flesh. Works on ingrained dirt too

Yes because the acid is working at reducing another chemical compound that is different to the chemical compound of hair, and does not need UV rays, since when did beetroot have the same molecular structure of hair.?

You don't need sunlight or UV to activate the bleaching properties of lemon juice

You do on the structural protein of hair called keratin, and the part which provides the colour called the cortex..
You want to argue, then argue with a scientist or just google it.

Another topic railroaded " off topic" well done !
Sanjiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

why am i imagining someone with beetroot on their head?

Seems that this has indeed drifted way off topic.

I feel a bit of an atmosphere brewing as well, so it might be best if we just lock this topic.

MarkJ HT Mod