Female condoms used as hair moisturizer

BULAWAYO hairdressers are using female condoms' oily lubricants as hair moisturizer saying it contains hair stimulating products that make hair grow fast.

The female condom sachet contains about 1,2 to 1,4 gram of lubricant.

"We use the oil in the condoms to moisturise the hair line which is usually prone to hair breakages and the hair grows for real," a hair dresser identified by Sunday News as Thobekile Ncube said.

"Some of our clients who have hair breakages issues come to us for advice and I am not shy to show them the FC2 (female condoms0 and what we it for and these clients are willing to use it as they want to maintain their beauty," she added.

According to the publication some people use the oil as shaving cream.

"What we do is rub the oil on the shaking stick and you can shave well, it gives a smooth finish and one will not even know that you shaved with condom cream oil, it is good,' Maxwell Msimanga said.

 According to thb paper, the head of Aids and TB department in the ministry of Health,  Owen Mugurungi said " The lubricant is just a natural oil without anything. It doesn't stimulate hair growth, it is a lie that these hairdressers are spreading.

"It has no anti-fungal properties so it cannot heal ring worms, the same applies to break fluid, there are no healing properties," he said.