After the initial shock, we all want to run straight to a hair salon to have the chewing gum cut out of our hair. But believe it or not, there really are other solutions!
It depends a bit on what you have at hand, but in most United States households, there is probably a jar of peanut butter in the cupboard. And if it’s peanut butter without nuts, then you’ve come a long way. What is the reason peanut butter works so well? The peanuts break down the chewing gum, and the fat in the peanut butter makes the hair smooth.
We recommend that you first place a rubber band at the top of the hair strand, which contains the chewing gum. What we also need for the ‘gum removal operation’ is an old toothbrush. After we put the rubber band in the hair above the chewing gum spot, we gently smear the peanut butter on the chewing gum with the toothbrush.
First rub with our hand
We massage the hair by hand first, and then we gently comb the strands with a wide-toothed comb. Then we remove the rest of the chewing gum with a paper towel. The peanut butter and comb will remove the coarser gum, but the paper towel will help remove the smaller bits as well. After this, the hair can simply be washed with shampoo. Hopefully, this solves the problem!
There are also other options
Other solutions for removing chewing gum from the hair are the following:
- Coconut
- Olive oil
- Cola
- Peanut Butter
The treatment is basically the same. Apply first with the toothbrush, then rub in with the fingers. Then remove the smaller remains with a paper towel.
Cola
There is a miracle cure for that annoying sticky candy called chewing gum. That magical panacea is called: cola. The application is also very simple. You throw a good amount of cola in a bowl and you let your hair soak in it for a long time. Then you pull out the piece of chewing gum very easily. Don’t feel like washing your hair with cola? Fortunately, there are other tips.
Peanut Butter
Another food that works wonders for your hair is peanut butter. All you have to do is rub peanut butter – preferably without pieces – in your hair with a toothbrush. You will see that the chewing gum is slowly releasing. To remove thicker pieces at the same time, it is advisable to use a fine comb.
An ice cube.
Then there is another remedy, and that is to freeze the chewing gum with an ice cube.
Because the chewing gum freezes, it becomes a hard piece of chewing gum. This allows the piece of chewing gum to be broken away from the hair, as it were. In any case, a large part of the chewing gum. If the chewing gum starts to thaw again, we need to refreeze it again. However, it is a somewhat painful method, because the hair has to be pulled hard. That is why this solution is mentioned last in this article.
