How to stop my DD using so much shampoo and body wash?

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I bought a litre of shampoo + 500 ml of shampoo 2 weeks ago and 6 bottles of 500ml bodywash. I'm down 3 bottles of bodywash and the shampoo is nearly gone. I wash my hair every 3 days. DD is nearly 10 ,what is she doing with the shampoo and bodywash? I've asked her repeatedly to just use a bit but she never does so. 1.5 litres of shampoo gone in nearly 2 weeks!! Do I ration it out everytime she has a shower? It's really pissing me off the shampoo was £14!!!

Do any other mothers of preteens have any advice ???

Get bottles with pumps - you use less

Swap to bar soap instead of the shower gel?
Better for skin, the planet, your wallet...

Have you got any of the small travel bottles you could put some in for her?

Agree - definitely use bar soap instead of shower gel, and maybe bar shampoo too. Cheaper, impossible to use too much, better for the environment.

I was going to suggest what @Greentree1 is about travel bottles. Also if she doesn’t require any specialist products for skin/hair you could fill old bottles of the shampoo and body wash with cheap stuff instead

Just buy cheap own brand shampoo and body wash for her. £14 for shampoo is ridiculous. We buy Lidl shower gel for the kids then they can use as much as they like

Massive bottles make it too easy to use too much.

Buy cheap stuff or decant into smaller bottles and tell her it needs to last a week. If she runs out, have only bars of soap and shampoo bars available.

Pump dispenser and cheaper brands until she can be trusted not to waste it.

I be surprised if a 10yr could manage a 1 litre bottle of shampoo 1 handed - it's probably going everywhere!

It's a pump dispenser so I have no idea what she's doing. I might refill it with the £1 ones.

You need to give her a clue on correct measurements. For example, for hair washing, you pour out the shampoo to the size of a 50p piece. Same goes for shower gel for each body area (e.g. 1 x 50p for arms & upper bod, then same again for lower bod, then same for legs). This was a revelation to one of my kids who'd been using bloody gallons of the stuff.

Buy her her own cheapo shampoo and tell her it needs to last her X amount of time. And get her her own shower puff so that the shower gel really lathers up and she'll find she needs to use far less. Personally I hate the squeaky clean feeling of bar soap

Ask her. Ask her how much she is using.

Still, could be worse - you could have a dc who's a soap dodger.

Is this a new thing or has she always used this much?

Is she having her own private foam party in there?

1.5 litres in 2 weeks of shampoo and body wash is nearly 100 ml of each during each shower, assuming she's showering once each day. That's a small cupful of each. No way is she using that much just to get clean. Did she spill some and not tell you? Is there some TikTok nonsense going around involving bubbles of some description?

Definitely get her to use less. Whatever the cost, it's so wasteful (chemicals, bottles, massive factories to produce the stuff). Obviously the idea that all 'young people' are trying to save the environment that they blame their parents for wrecking is a myth.

We've got pump shampoo conditioner and shower gel, before that it literally got poured down the drain. How is managing to use so much?!

Give DD a bar of soap and a bottle of baby shampoo to last till the end of April.

Keep your supplies under lock and key.

That's a lot to go through in such a short period of time! Is she eating it?😂

50ps worth of shampoo would barely even register in my hair and it’s not particularly long or thick.

Have a gentle conversation to check in that she isn't having compulsive behaviours/ thoughts around cleanliness, which could be OCD related. My daughter (severe OCD) got through bottles of shampoo... frankly it was the least of our worries...

It's already pumped so I don't know 🤣🤣 think she must be trolling me and pumping it down the plug hole.

She has shoulder length hair 1.5 lites of shampoo would previously last me 3 months not ,2 weeks. I have hair down to my lower back.

My dd was like this. In the end I had to buy her separate conditioner which I wrote the month on and it had to last her a month. It gave her some awareness of how much she was using.

Definitely bar soap and solid shampoo. My DS left the solid shampoo in the bathtub the other night and it didn't disintegrate, either, I was quite impressed (as DD leaves the soap in the bath all the time and we have to be quick to retrieve it).

Save an old bottle, distill it and water it down.

Maybe try those pump dispensers in the shower - one pump that per use.