Where Can I Buy John Edwards' Special Shampoo? Help!

"The Breck girl" -- that was Rush Limbaugh's nickname for John Edwards when he still had a political future.

Turns out that Rush was wrong. He should have nicknamed Edwards the "HairTec Thick & Strong Shampoo for Fine, Fragile Hair" girl.

Not as snappy, but more accurate.

Edwards' "butt boy," Andrew Young, the aide who covered up for Edwards, protected his beloved boss by claiming paternity of the baby Edwards fathered with his wacky mistress Rielle Hunter. Young describes, in his new book, The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down, the scores of chores he did for Edwards, cutting the "made in USA label out of his suit and sewing it in Edwards' "made in Italy suit," changing the light bulbs in the Edwards' house -- and making certain that Edwards always had a supply of the only shampoo he would use -- HairTec Thick & Strong Shampoo for Fine, Fragile Hair.

Edwards cared a lot about his looks -- the perfect white t-shirt, the perfect jeans, the perfect weathered shirt, sleeves precisely rolled up -- but about his hair he was a loony perfectionist -- as archived in the famous YouTube primping video. We know about the $400 haircuts for the man who lectured us about poverty and the "two Americas."

When I saw the news from Young's book about HairTec Thick & Strong Shampoo for Fine, Fragile Hair, I rushed to drugstore.com. My intent was not to buy the stuff for myself -- although Edwards' hair always has a nice shine and it never looks dry or frizzy -- but to find out how much it cost.

Drugstore.com didn't have it. Neither did Ultra or Sephora. When I Googled the brand name I found that it was available, but only in Malaysia, and I couldn't be sure of the price.

Anybody who knows where to find this stuff, please tell me. Is there a reader in North Carolina who knows of a local salon that carries it? Andrew Young, will you reveal your supplier?

If I were the manufacturer of the shampoo I'd be out with a national advertising campaign pronto. There's not much that John Edwards could sell to anyone these days. But he indisputably has a nice head of hair.

Oh, one last question, when he went to Haiti to help in the relief effort, did he pack his special shampoo?

 

 

 

Comments

[seawolf77]

05:02 PM on 02/02/2010

As cadbury as it might sound, cheating on a terminally ill patient is not at all uncommon. It is a way to cheat death, and who doesn;t want that. I remember when he was running thinking boy I hope the brave husband shoulderin­g on in the face of adversity does not come crashing down becasue what do you have left. Not much of anything. It's like Tiger Woods. Sure he is a great golfer, but will people care anymore since he is revealed as human as the rest of us. I don;t think so. But we;ll see.

[johnnygoodwud]

09:55 AM on 02/02/2010

here's a shampoo trick. i, at 62 have a full head of hair. i've been told it looks much like richard gere's. i actually use three shampoos and switch off from day to day. that eliminates the build-up from using just one on your hair. best shampoo i've ever used, kiehls,,,,­,,,,,not cheap, but worth every penny. when i was much younger, my older brother used to constantly make fun of my hair,,,,,,­,,,see what's happened to me now? not quite the john edwards scenario

[BocaMom]

05:57 PM on 02/01/2010

I can't believe we almost had Edwards as our Vice President! Wow! What a disaster that would have been. I wonder what Gore is thinking about this?

[Carol Felsenthal]

06:36 PM on 02/01/2010

The politician who must be wondering about this is John Kerry who came very close (60,000 votes in Ohio) to having Edwards as his VP in 2004

[JohnDewey]

05:45 PM on 02/02/2010

Yes, Gore can't be blamed for Edwards, but he would have had to live with the guilt of foisting Joe Lieberman - Profession­al D-Bag - on the rest of us.

Between Joementum & the Breck Girl, I'm not sure which would have been worse; they're both egomaniaca­l creeps. Put those two together with Palin, McCain & the GOP and it speaks volumes about the candidates who chose them & the political party that put its stamp of approval on the selections­.

[wizened]

05:09 PM on 02/01/2010

If we were only talking about infidelity­, I might agree with you. But the man is a total phoney- sewing made in USA labels in Italian suits and asking his aid to acknowlege paternity of Edwards' baby- is this the kind of character you want in a President? Who was he trying to fool? His wife or the electorate­? He makes Nixon look like a choir boy! Good riddance!

[Rooster Coburn]

02:40 PM on 02/01/2010

The South has long been the most "moral" region of America. And morality cannot exist in a vacuum. It must be balanced by immorality­. Take, for example, the expression "In the battle between good and evil . . .". Would it make much sense to say "In the battle between good and good . . "? Just think how many men can now say to our wives, "See Honey, I'm not like that cheatin' John Edwards, I'd never be unfaithful to you that way. O.K., maybe I do spend to much on my motorcycle and my guns, but I'll always be faithful to you, darling."

[Patti Hagan]

01:56 PM on 02/01/2010

How about quondam presidenti­al candidate Edwards supporting the U.S. economy -- buying American-m­ade shampoo? How about leaving the "Made In U.S.A." label in his bespoke biz suits? Go-fer Young's expose calls to mind Holden Caulfield: John Edwards = PHONY.

[Carol Felsenthal]

12:15 PM on 02/02/2010

Just reading the Washington Post's Dana Milbank's very funny column on director of the Office of Management and Budget Peter Orszag and, being on the subject of shampoo, wondering if he has to shampoo his toupee and how often.

http://www­.washingto­npost.com/­wp-dyn/con­tent/artic­le/2010/02­/01/AR2010­020103426.­html?wpisr­c=nl_polit­ics&sid=ST­2010020100­056

[goedel]

12:29 PM on 02/01/2010

How awful, that sexual pecadillos can be ballyhooed to the point of destroying a politician­s' careers, while their accepting bribes (campaign funds, etc. from corporate interests) is an accepted part of US political life; it's called buying "access". What nonsense!

We should expect our better looking, highly affluent pols to seek pleasure in more than one female companion. After all, confirmati­on of their bloated egos is the essence of a pol's being, with only few exceptions­. If the pol is an experience­d senator, motivated to try helping the less fortunate (as best one can tell), we really should take a more adult view of their private lives and public service. If the latter is good, let them screw up their marriages as much as they please! It's their business not mine.

[wizened]

07:44 PM on 02/01/2010

my post above was in reply to yours, goedel. I'm not real good at this.

[iMissMollyIvins]

12:26 AM on 02/02/2010

If you want to respond to a post, go to the bottom of the post and click "reply". Your reply will be posted beneath the comment you are replying to. Welcome to HuffPo.

[trainunderwater]

12:37 AM on 02/02/2010

Goedel, maybe our country shouldn't be as shocked by the frequent cases of sexual infidelity among politician­s. However, this notion seems a little ridiculous when politician­s aren't only cheating on their significan­t others, but also pretending to be focused on "the family". It might be better if our country could instead come to terms with the hypocrisy inherent in the political system. This is the true way politician­s lie to Americans.