Who is the inventor of shampoo?

Answer 1

On the lighter side...

In the misty dawn of time before there was recorded history there was a tribe of inventive hunters. They were known throughout the area as inventors whose innovations were improvements to the quality of life in those parts.

The local tribes were always amazed and delighted with Ogg and Gronks marvelous inventions like the things called shoes, cooked y'eggs and the fermented fruit drinks and even the practical cooking rock the y'ron. Even the ladies of the tribe, especially the two friends Rhonda and Sheila, occasionally came up with practical ideas.

Since life in the tribe could get quite hectic, and it is well known that women need some "me" time, Sheila had planned a quiet get away at the hot springs with a couple of her best friends. After the adventure of the T-Rex, they had learned never to travel alone, unlike the intrepid Rhonda. She had planned a restful day at the hot springs so had packed a small meal to have while enjoying her day. A pouch of raw y'eggs , some dried BBQ dinosaur, and a skin of fermented fruit drink were on the "menu".

When Sheila and her companions arrived at the springs, she took a few of the raw y'eggs and placed them in the hot pool of water to "cook" where the T-rex had met his demise, and thinking the BBQ'ed dinosaur would attract animals she decided to hang the rest of the food in the branch of a flowering tree close to the bathing pool.

The ladies adjourned to the comfort of the warm springs and started relaxing with their rituals of cleanliness. They had discovered that the goo at the bottom of the pool was particularly soothing to chaffed dry facial skin, so mud packs were the order of the day. After several hours of lazing around in the pool, the occasional nip at the "juice" skin, and a good scrubbing down with the fine sand around the pool, Sheila happened to look over at where she had left the food hanging.

To her utter disgust. several tree climbing rodents called shams were busily hanging upside down from the leather pouch holding the raw y'eggs, meat and the other juice skin. Now shams were not well liked by the tribe, partly because they were rodents and were not good to eat because of their fat content, but mainly because of their habit of defecating everywhere and ruining everything they came in contact with...Filthy little beasts. These creatures had already chewed a small hole in the "juice skin" causing a small slow shower of bubbly, frothy liquid to fall to the ground and were busily working on making a hole in the food pouch.

Sheila immediately ran toward the small thieves stopping only to pick up a sturdy branch with which to bash their larcenous little skulls. Sheila, somewhat dizzy from the "juice" and none to steady on her feet, tripped on the way to the tree and fell into an old fire pit from previous expeditions. Covered in a fine white ash, she arrived at the tree and took a roundhouse swing at the closest sham, who easily dodged the blow, but which landed square on the pouch with the Y'eggs and greasy meat. The bag, soiled with the sham's peculiar feces which ate through most substances, opened even more and drenched her whole previously clean body.

Enraged and not in the least worried about the damage done to the "picnic" Rhonda continued her assault on the agile animals, flailing away with nary a killing blow landed. Much damage was done, however, to the pouch of food and the tree branch. Each blow to the branch brought a fine shower of Juice, Y'eggs , grease and tree sap down upon the enraged Cave woman who was so mired that she was unrecognizable. Eventually tiring of the action, the rodents skittered away and Rhonda ceased her punitive actions.

Wandering back to the water, she and her girlfriends started rubbing at the mess on her skin and in her hair. They found the feeling of the gooey substance was much better than the sand scrubbing. When she lay down in the warm water, it also caused a slight foaming and released a pleasant fragrance since the tree sap that was mixed in happened to be Hibiscus in full bloom.

After a final rinse with warm clean water Rhonda could feel how light and wonderful her hair was and got a great idea. Thanks to the Shams, the other women of her tribe would love this product and it was so easily made. Upon arrival back at camp when Gronk greeted her with "Gee, your hair smells terrific", she knew she had a winner. When asked the story of this new invention, she told the tale and pronounced that the sham had poohed on her new pouch. The name stuck as the legend of sham-poo.