Remove chewing gum from hair: with these home remedies it works
You don't need to use scissors to remove chewing gum from your hair. With these home remedies, you can get rid of the sticky chewing fun quickly.
Oil removes chewing gum from your hair
All oily products remove the sticky mass from your hair. It can be easily removed.
- Take a tablespoon of oil on hand. Coconut oil works best, but olive or rapeseed oil also work.
- Spread the liquid around the glued area. Massage them well into the chewing gum and the affected hair.
- Let the oil soak in for about ten minutes.
- Carefully loosen the gum from your hair. The oil prevents it from sticking. You can repeat the process if necessary.
- Wash your hair thoroughly.
- If you don't have oil at home, the trick also works with fatty skin cream, butter or margarine.
This is how you can remove chewing gum with ice cubes
We show you how to use the ice cube method successfully in our instructions.
- Hold two ice cubes on either side of the chewing gum until it becomes rigid. Wear gloves or a cloth to avoid cold fingers.
- Now the chewing gum should become crumbly. You can remove them from your hair.
- Comb out the rest of the remains and wash your hair.
You should not use these methods
Hair spray, icing spray and nail polish remover are often recommended against chewing gum in the hair. However, these applications involve some risks.
- Icing spray can irritate the mucous membranes and scalp and cause allergic reactions.
- Hairspray sticks the hair even more. The result: it is no longer combable and the chewing gum is difficult to remove.
- Nail polish remover contains alcohol. This damages the hair and makes it brittle and brittle.
What you should know if you swallowed chewing gum can be read in our next post.