| Silly String
Posted: 7/13/2008 4:55:02 PM | Does anyone know how to get Silly String out of hair?
We went to an outdoor party last night, and a 'nice' aunty brought 6 cans of the stuff for the kids to play with. My poor little boy has so much stuck in his hair. Normally, I'd be on board with cutting it all off, but he's growing it out to make a wig for a cancer patient next year (http://www.hairmassacure.com/ for those who are interested)... and it's down to his shoulders now so he doesn't want to lose the length.
I spent 45 mins this morning picking it out... but there's still more in there!
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| Silly String
Posted: 7/13/2008 4:57:48 PM | Like gum
Try peanut butter or ice.
You could also go the mayo route.
Good luck | |
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| Silly String
Posted: 7/13/2008 5:01:56 PM | | Sorry bout the silly string, have no clue. That is awesome what your son is doing though. My daughter just donated 13" to locks of love. Same type of program. It is awesome when you see young kids doing something so great! | |
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| Silly String
Posted: 7/13/2008 5:20:08 PM | | I would try olive oil. Put it on, wrap his head in a bit of saran wrap for a half hour or so, so the oil can soak in and the heat will loosen it up. Then wash it out. Might take a couple times, but olive oil washes out easily. | |
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| Silly String
Posted: 7/13/2008 6:18:54 PM | Here's a couple ways I found online.
first dampen ur hair, then take a glob of creamy peanut butter and slowly ease it out. then thoroughly wash ur hair maybe 2 times.
Depending on how much you have in your hair try taking ice cubes and freezing a section once it gets hard it should come out fairly easy. Ice cubes are also great for gum.
Okay, here's what you do.....
1. take peanut butter, rub it all over your hair.
2. Wait about minutes.
3. Take a shower, and the peanut butter and silly string should come out.
you need to put peanut butter in your hair. or you can you mayonase. they both work
This seems to be the general consensus with the posters before me, and what I've read online.
ps. My seven year old daughter is doing the same with her hair. She's more then halfway there and is very excited to beable to participate in helping someone create a wig with her hair. Compassion is a wonderful thing to teach your children. | |
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| Silly String
Posted: 7/14/2008 8:10:15 AM | | OLIVE OIL!!!!!!!! or Baby OIL or any kind of suntan coconut and banana based oil, but just put it on thick and also great for the hair, it will give it a great conditioning and my little girl donated 18 inches last year...she is now looking great again and her hair grew back in so much healthier!!! yay!!! hugz | |
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| Silly String
Posted: 7/14/2008 7:32:51 PM | Thanks for all the suggestions!!
The silly string did all come out of his hair with some persistence.... But now he's heartbroken about his favorite shit. It was the only souvenir he bought when we were at Disneyland a few months back, and it's got fluorescent green all over the back! | |
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| Silly String
Posted: 7/14/2008 10:58:00 PM | | One way to get the silly string to fall out on its own is to have the boy refrain from being silly. The string will get bored and leave. But good luck keeping him from being silly. | |
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| Silly String
Posted: 7/15/2008 4:45:14 AM | | Color me stupid but don't the oils then create a problem? I seem to remember perhaps when I was a kid someone winding up with some type of oil in their hair and then that took a long time to remove. | |
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| Silly String
Posted: 7/15/2008 6:00:43 AM | | javaqueen...did you happen to mean favorite shirt?...if it is his favorite sh!t that is florescent green...you might want to change his diet... | |
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Posted: 7/15/2008 8:06:37 AM | LMAO!!! i thought i was the ONLY one that noticed that. hehe
He maybe ate alot of that green icing at that party, huh???
AND no oils will NOT do anything but BENEFIT the hair and skin! ...OLIVE OIL is one of the best hot oil treatments for hair and for skin ever documented. ALSO.....of COURSE it will take a bit to get the oil out, but just use some HOT water and do a deep conditioning rinse rinse rinse and VOILA!! shiniest head of hair he has had in ages! and will the donation place love it! :)
im not supposed to post links, so just google OLIVE OIL for hair treatments. over 200 came up! I have researched OLIVE OIL for many many things for YEARS!!! I have a website dedicated to home made remedies. LOL | |
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| Silly String
Posted: 7/15/2008 9:16:09 AM | Totally off the subject of how to get it out. Next time tell her to bring shaving cream instead.
I've done the silly string ONCE and only once, shaving cream fights are so much easier to clean up just hose them down! | |
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| Silly String
Posted: 7/15/2008 1:31:01 PM | SCISSORS WORK VERY WELL! | |
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| Silly String
Posted: 7/15/2008 1:37:50 PM | ^^^^
the child is growing his hair out for locks of love.
(meaning when his hair is cut it will be made into a wig for another child with cancer)
Hence the reason she is avoiding scissors. | |
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| Silly String
Posted: 7/15/2008 5:01:09 PM |
javaqueen...did you happen to mean favorite shirt?
OMG!!! That's too funny! I guess POF isn't censoring our language anymore, eh?
Ya, I did mean shirt!
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| Silly String
Posted: 7/16/2008 6:15:05 AM | OK, then, now SCISSORS....how about pruning shears?
(locks of love is a pretty noble thing......)
Peanut butter works to get out chewing gum.....don't ask me how I know..... | |
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