Sunday, August 29, 2010

Shampoo and something else....

When I grew up in Norway, we washed our hair with
SJAMPO as we called it in Norwegian.

BALSAM was , at least for me back then,
a skin ointment.

When I grew up and moved to my other country,
I discovered you could , in addition to the shampoo,
also use a conditioner.

Forty years later I am back in Norway, looking for
shampoo and conditioner.
I easily found the shampoo, but the conditioner
was more diffcult.

It took me quite a long time to discover that in modern
Norwegian conditioner is called balsam.
Now it seems silly, but when I first saw balsam bottles
next to the shampoo bottles, I thought Norwegians
used some special ointment on their hair........


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