Drowning in unused hair conditioner. What do I do with it?

[ChardonnaysBeastlyCat]

I started colouring my hair during Covid and every single box comes with a great big tube of conditioner. They are not sealed though and are clearly part of a package. I usually have one tube on the go, for after the colour application, and apart from that I use my usual conditioner. At the moment I have at least 8 tubes lurking in my bathroom cabinet. They take up lots of space I don’t have spare, but I feel it’s a waste to throw them away.

What can I do with the sodding things?

Conditioner is great to use when shaving your legs - makes the razor glide more easily 😊

Put them in a food bank.

Give them away (hospitals/refuges/food bank)
Use them as shaving soap to shave your legs.
Use them as a deep conditioning mask.

I'd download the Olio app and put it on there under the non-food section for anyone who wants it to come and collect.

I want to give them away, but I don’t want the food bank to have to deal with them if unsealed tubes are not accepted.

Conditioner is great for cleaning paint brushes, it leaves them really soft.

Offer them for free on Freecycle - again, someone will collect from your doorstep

If you have children, make unicorn dough with conditioner and cornflour! theimaginationtree.com/2-ingredient-unicorn-dough/

I don’t that many legs, but will try.

I have curly hair so I only use conditioner - I use it to both wash and condition. Could you switch to doing that till you’ve run your surplus down?

Have you got small kids? Conditioner and cornflour makes an amazing play dough.

Yes, but then I’ll end up with unused paint!

Grown up children. No grandchildre.

I’ve always wanted curly hair. Maybe I can get a perm, that will burn through the conditioner.

Just use them instead of your usual conditioner for a few months?

It's a great conditioner, just use it in place of your usual one? I don't get why you can't just use it up? Even use a whole tube as a hair mask once a week.

Second Olio app. All sorts of stuff gets snapped up on there. And they collect so no extra work for you.

It doesn’t work for my hair. I agree it’s a good conditioner, but not for me. I use a leave-in one.

Also, I have so much accumulated, I’d need to be a wooly mammoth to use it all up.

But most toiletries (shower gel, normal shampoo and conditioner) aren't sealed and they accept them, presumably.

I have the same problem but this thread has prompted me to just use them as a semi regular deep conditioning treatment. Another thing I've just thought of would be to use them as travel size instead of decanting or buying small ones specially.

Wait until your current conditioner is empty. Take the lid off. Squeeze all the conditioner into it. Use until finished.

Freecycle is great for getting rid of stuff like this.

This is what I'd do

I’ll take a look there.

I would just use them as my actual conditioner until they run out. But try a local Facebook marketplace. I once received a whole bunch of XXL tights in error, shop didn't want them back and a woman from a women's refuge picked them up and thanked me profusely.

Yes to this. It's usually a good quality conditioner, use as an intensive hair mask once a week.