Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle unwanted hairspray?

By: Shorty

Shorty — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:51:00 +0000

Donate it to the lead singer of Tokio Hotel, I heard he uses at least five cans before every show. http://www.cartoondollemporium.com/forum/pics/cdeblog/Tokio_Hotel_4.jpg
Heheh, just kidding, my friend adores them, I have no idea why. Weirdos…. Anyway, if you’ve got some dried flowers or bread sculptures that you want to preserve without making shiny, hairspray is the way to go.

By: Clare

Clare — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:16:31 +0000

My father uses it in his cellar to keep the labels from falling off his wine bottles.

By: carolyn

carolyn — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:10:04 +0000

List it on your local Freecycle group. Someone will come get it.

By: Cat

Cat — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:18:22 +0000

Sounds odd, but when I was a kid we’d use it to set things like sand or salt maps on prodjects.

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:30:18 +0000

I use it to kill houseflies that stray into my home. So I guess it works as bug spray!

By: EwuT

EwuT — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:52:15 +0000

If you wear make up, spray it over your eyes after you’ve put it on.

Obviously, close your eyes first, this keeps the makeup intact

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:22:48 +0000

i use old hairspray all the time to avoid buying fixative, i saw that somebody posted that before. but just to elaborate- its great with pencil drawings or maybe old newspapers you want to preserve

By: Scotty MC

Scotty MC — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:54:56 +0000

I’ve used hair spray on the bottom of my sneakers when playing basketball. Our coach would keep a bottle. That would help your feet from slipping on some floors.

By: Elsie

Elsie — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:17:49 +0000

If you have any horsey friends who compete – you could give it to them – they use it to hold in plaits in horse manes and tails.

By: Cleeker

Cleeker — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:13:02 +0000

Use it to fix the rubber handlebar grips to you bike/quad etc. Brilliant especially in wet weather.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:11:53 +0000

when I’m drying roses or other flowers, I will spray them with hair spray before I hang them upside down.. it keeps the petals from falling off..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 31 May 2008 08:18:55 +0000

I think you can use it (lightly) on clothes such as dresses to stop them “flying away” if they are a little floaty.

Also for bikini bottoms to stop them riding up

By: Morgs

Morgs — Sat, 31 May 2008 04:03:39 +0000

We use hairspray as a fixative when we go camping – we spray it onto the (cooled) fragile mantles that sit inside our gas lamp to make it glow. The mantles always used to break on the next leg of the car journey, but now they survive the trip completely intact!

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:47:18 +0000

Hair spray kills spiders!

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:58:32 +0000

It can also be used as a fixative for just about anything else you would use art fixative for — I used some on printable CDs that had come through an ink-jet printer that left the ink a little smeary.

By: Bobbie

Bobbie — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:26:40 +0000

Use it to remove ball point pen stains. Works!

By: Mirthful

Mirthful — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:51:30 +0000

Yup. Works well as a fixative. It may contain substances that will speed up the ageing of the paper, so I wouldn’t use it on anything you want to keep for years and years, but other than that it’s great for pencil sketches and chalk.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:20:02 +0000

at school i seem to remember it was used as a fixing spray for chalk art work, so it didn’t smudge