QuoteReplyTopic: Hair Smell Posted: July 04 2005 at 8:49am
Yes. Hair soaks up smoke like a sponge, even more so then clothes. although it comes out with a good washing and conditioning. untill your next cigarette. My job is in a very smoke filled enviroment, and although I cant smell it when Im there, when I come home I realize I reek.
I appreciate it when people ask before they start smoking around me since I have a lung problem. I think the most polite way to handle "odour" is to move away if you can. For that reason I try not to wear scented products to the theatre or religious services when it is not so easy to move away.
Smoke does seem to absorb into hair. I don't like when smokers tend to congregate around the entrances of public buildings. One must walk through the smoke to get into or out of the building. I think heated shelters for smoking might be useful.
Cooking odours also will take up into hair. Cooking curry, onions, garlic, fish - cover up with a hat or scarf.
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I think hair can definitely hold odor, especially processed or porous hair. I went out a few weeks ago with some friends, one of whom had really long light blonde HH extensions. After a night out, my hair and another girl's hair smelled fine, but the friend with extension hair had such a strong smoke/ash smell to hers it was almost making us sick!! Surprisingly, my hair (which is also colored) did not smell but I really condition it good, so maybe that helped "repel" the odor.
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I'm assuming you mean that the air in the restrooms is very smoky...
and even just a few minutes causes the cigarette smoke to stick?
Sounds like this place needs a smoking policy (no smoking in the
restrooms). Anyway, well-oiled hair will, to a certain extent,
repel the smoke. Work a few drops of jojoba (spread thinly on
your palms) into your hair before you use the restroom. This may
help.
Thanks for the advice,. I heard that because leave in conditioner kind
of neutralised the dmell or something...? I don't smoke, but the
toilets I have to use during the day are very smoky and it really
sticks to my hair and makes it stink. Does any1 have any tips on
getting it out quickly as it is really horrible and has nearly reduced
me to tears before now when my hair stunk of smoke.
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Ah yes, great topic. I used to work as a server during college years and they would stick me in the smoking section. My hair would pick up the cig smells and last and last. I figured out that if I slathered my hair with a good leave-in cream and wrapped my hair up in a bun, the smoke didn't settle in nearly as much as when I didn't use leave in. I guess the conditioner coats the hair and blocks out the yucky smells.
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Most definitely, being in a smoky place gets the funky stink in the clothes and hair. One of my friends says that she avoids the worst effects by waiting to wash her hair (when its oily and needs washing) until after going to smoky places -- this seems to work well for her.
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I don't smoke and never have done, neither does my bf, but if we spend the evening with friends who do you can really smell it on our clothes and hair after. No offence to any smokers out there, obviously, but yuk.
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I find that the smell of cigarettes usually just sticks to my clothing if I'm at a smoky bar. However, if I'm in close contact with someone smoking, then my hair picks it up; after one particular date with a chain smoker, it took days for me to get the smell out. I didn't call him back, but there were other factors at play, of course. I myself have never smoked; just don't see the point of it.
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My dad smokes a lot... but he only smoked outside the house or in the garage. I used to smell it in my car every morning I drove to work. I was that one "weird" person that drove with my windows down, freezing in the cold or getting wet from the rain. LoL.
I don't know if smokers' hair smells like cigarettes...maybe. My boyfriend smokes and I never noticed it in his not-long hair. It does smell strongly on his breath for a few minutes after he's had a cigarette though. However, if you're in a smoky place like a bar, as said above, oh yeah that hair can stink! When I used to go out at night I had to wash my hair as soon as I got home!
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Oh yes, it does. It sticks to hair like it sticks to fabric almost. I would imagine even more for people with long hair because there is so much to soak up the smell, so to speak.
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