How to get vasaline out of a childs hair.

Zulu

...so my 18 month old daughter, mimicking my morning routine of putting a small bit of gel in my hair, has plastered her hair with a tub of Vaseline. Which, while hair-larious, leaves an inevitable problem: how to remove it?

Any ideas folks? Please?

Pro Hoc Vice

http://m.wikihow.com/Remove-Petroleum-Jelly-from-Hair-Using-Olive-Oil-and-Detergent

Seems answer is olive oil.

fineso.mom

Comb out as much of it as you can first. Run the comb through her hair, wipe the vaseline off the comb, then run through the hair again,wipe off the Vaseline etc etc until you have the most of it off. Either wash her hair as normal, after getting a really good lather with shampoo. Or use a facecloth and shampoos and warm water . Basically using the sudsy cloth to wipe off the Vaseline.

fineso.mom

Oh, and thank your lucky stars it wasn't sudocream ! Good luck

Victor

Try using a clean dry fluffy towel between the comb and washing stages.

xzanti

Washing up liquid!!

Just use plenty of conditioner once the vaseline is gone as it's quite harsh.

Mink

and shampoo it (or washing up liquid) dry rather than wetting the hair first.