Devoted blog readers know that last night I invited participants to guess the name of the Bionic Hair Product that successfully kept Jonah’s hair in check for a full 12-hour stint, and I even held out the prospect of a priceless prize if anyone came up with the correct answer.
Fellow blog writers know that among the administrative tasks associated with maintaining a blog is that every so often you have to go in and delete all the spam comments that your blog has somehow attracted. It can be fun, in a random-walk interior-dialogue fashion, to try and discern which tag in what post has prompted what company to generate which (usually quite garbled) message.
I was doing just such a clean-up this morning, and came across this:
I personally like the shampoos and conditioners in the collections. It is not a secret that
formaldehyde is used as a preservative, as well as an antibacterial agent. These are some of the reasons why you should try to use natural treatments instead of chemical products as much as possible.
I hadn’t had my regulation quantity of coffee yet, and at first I thought it was a genuine good faith response to Bionic Hair Product that had gotten mis-filed into spam. Formaldehyde? Really? That’s even more innovative than shaving cream, as Chris suggested in her quiz submission.
Then I saw that the sender was the manufacturer of “natural” hair products, and thought, of course, this was attracted by the tag lines “hair” and “gel.”
But then I saw that the post that had actually attracted the spam-submission was… Your Safety is our Concern, but Your Responsibility.
Nonetheless, in the event that anyone else is inclined to try formaldehyde as a means of preserving a hairstyle on a particularly challenging head of hair, I will hereby declare:
Not formaldehyde.
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