SHAMPOO

Shampoo

Shampoo is a hair care product used for the removal of oils, dirt, skin particles, dandruff, environmental pollutants and other contaminant particles that gradually build up in hair. The goal is to remove the unwanted build-up without stripping out so much sebum as to make hair unmanageable.

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shampoo

Noun

  1. A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
  2. A commercial liquid soap product for washing hair or other fibres/fibers, such as carpets.
  3. An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
    I’m going to give the carpet a shampoo.
  4. Champagne .

Verb

  1. To wash one's own hair with shampoo.
    My neat-freak of a friend has been compulsively shampooing for every bath he has taken.
  2. To wash (i.e. the hair, carpet, etc.) with shampoo.
  3. To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.


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