Commentary
Buyers Guide, Corporate Profiles, No
More Tangles and disappearing cats…
When I was very small, in the 1970s, I had very long hair. I would beg, beg my
mother for Johnson’s No More Tangles detangling spray. She refused. I would
cry and shriek on shampoo nights as my mother tried to get a brush through
my long, wet, snarled hair, thumping me with the hairbrush if I screamed too loudly. My
stoic mother, who grew up during the Great Depression, always had short hair. There
wasn’t any No More Tangles or creme rinse (what we called conditioner in the 70s, also
on my wish list) during the Depression so we weren’t about to get any now. New-fangled
products were considered a waste of money.
Given this childhood trauma, I had to wince when I first saw the baby on the cover
of our August issue. Sure she’s cute, but something about her made me very uneasy. I
finally realized it was her hair. Not only does she have fuzzy crib-head from lying on her
back for too long, but some cruel adult has taken what little hair she has and given her
a painful looking top-knot. When I found myself trying to zoom in on the photo to
see whether the elastic band was uncoated or coated (coated hair elastics being another
waste of money, according to my mom), I knew I had to stop projecting and relax.
It’s just a picture, I tell myself. Surely that kid’s parents will buy her some of the new,
improved No More Tangles found in our Sprays for Kids feature (p. 14), which highlights
some of the best spray products on the market to make children’s grooming as easy and
painless as possible. Take a deep breath...
Annual Buyers Guide
This issue also includes SPRAY’s 2019-2020 Buyers Guide. We have compiled everything
you need for packaging a new spray product into this useful resource guide, which
lists a variety of special services, components and raw materials. We are also featuring
its companion piece, the 14th edition of Corporate Profiles, which provides the latest
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Cartoon caption winner…
Thanks to all who submitted captions for our July
Cartoon Caption Contest. The winners are:
“A complete and utter ‘CatastroSpray’”!
Paul Meyers, Zep Inc., Atlanta, GA
“Puss & Pooof”
Jerry Ulrich, Four Star Chemical, Los Angeles, CA
Editor’s note: We assume this is a potential product
name.
Honorable mention:
“Why spay when you can spray?”
“Fido’s best prank ever”
“This is taking pet-odor removal a step too far…”