Soften Stiff Jeans

Step 5 Shampoo & Conditioner

Materials:

• Conditioner (or Shampoo, or a 2-in-1 Shampoo)
• Beaten jeans =]

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Rubbing shampoo on lacrosse mesh softens the mesh up, it may work with denim. - [www.instructables.com/member/Brennn10/ Brennn10]

Although Brennn10 suggested I use shampoo, I decided to go with conditioner, seeing as how while shampoo cleans your hair, conditioner is what makes it light and soft (which is our objective! =)

So just pour on a BUNCH of conditioner and rub it into your jeans. Make sure to get both sides of both legs!

Comments

[moN1Ker]

If you deal with dying/treatment of hair, you'll quickly realize that shampoo strips/destroys hair a lot more than conditioner, which usually has more ingredients aimed towards *conditioning* and revitalising hair.

Shampoo would seem to be your best bet here.

[Labot2001]

Conditioner softens your hair; this is the goal here. Or are you saying that shampoo would "break it down" and break in the fabric?

[moN1Ker]

Exactly. Shampoo is more destructive, conditioner is good for softening & revitalising, but hair is different than denim fiber. Not sure it'd work quite the same, but the ingredients in shampoo would still act the same. IE: cleaning, stripping, & breaking down the components of what it's being rubbed into. That hippy "green" shampoo crap isn't going to do as good of a job as your $1.79/bottle Suave/store-brand shampoos are, though.

[tchiseen]

Conditioner is better, it goes on last and makes dee hair silky and smoooth