Hair and Vitamins

It's a Friday night, so naturally you'll find me going to CVS after work to buy some vitamins. Pretty stoked out high-voltage vitamins, vitamin D, calcium... I had a real freaking vitamin party at CVS pharmacy.

I also purchased some baby shampoo (for myself) and milky conditioner. During my junior and senior years at school in St. Louis, I went to this pretentious, gay-friendly (redundant?) salon. They examined my hair and said it had a bunch of wax on it. But how'd it get there? Supposedly it got there from chronic use of cheap shampoos and conditioners, which contain waxy secrets that eventually build up and cause your hair to be all dead and waxy-like. He illustrated his case by literally scraping a white substance off my hair. Then he put me in a cap and sat me under those hair-heat-lamp things that women salon-goers use. I was embarrassed but I got through it, and after I dare say my hair looked great.

I broached this conversation topic with a "brother" in SAE at the time. A totally dickhead, this guy said, "Are you talking about your hair? Are you fucking gay?" Or something like that. A real winner, that guy.

The reason I bring up this story is because whenever I buy hair products now, I am conscious -- I worry -- that they might contain waxy stuff. My gay "stylist" (not barber) said that all mass-produced products (i.e. those not bought at a salon) have wax. Although I don't usually bother making it a point to purchase my hair products at the salon (have I overused this word yet?) I still think about it and hope that the thought will propel me toward a wax-free future for my hair and all my loved ones. That is why I got the baby shampoo -- They wouldn't put waxy shit in BABY shampoo, would they??? -- and the more-expensive-than-I'd-normally-be-comfortable-with milk conditioner stuff.

Any comments regarding my well-being or shared knowledge about shampoo wax, please share.