How to Remove Gum From Hair

Series Summary

For many years, women have sought the perfect hairstyle. That elusive blend of volume, smoothness and style has created frustration in many women who seek to express their personalities and creativity through their locks. In fact, hairstyles often represent cultural, social and ethnic identity for many individuals and can also represent social status. While hair density, texture and length are all factors in a person's hairstyle, fashion trends tend to play the largest role in women's hairstyles. In this free video series on hair care, a professional hairstylist demonstrates general hairstyling tips. Learn to get straight hair curly using zulu knots, hair product and curling irons. Find out how to grow out hair naturally with lowlights, and find out how to get hair to grow healthier with B vitamins and a healthy diet. Maintain great hairstyles with a healthy head of hair and scalp.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Amelia and I'm going to talk to you about how to remove gum from hair. At some point in everyone's life we've all had some gum in our hair. Fallen asleep with it, it ends up in our hair. And of course it always ends up in that one spot right in the front where you know if you cut it you're going to have bangs and inch long, and walk around looking like a fool. So one of the best ways to get gum out of your hair is actually peanut butter. Anything that is oil based will get it out. So mayonnaise may work even straight up oil will work but peanut butter works great. So you would just take a little bit of the peanut butter. I'm just going to use my finger here. And actually just rub it into the hair. Where the gum is. And what that's going to do is that's going to loosen up the sticky factor if you will. And you just work that through. Get that, that gum will slide right out. And then you can shampoo the hair. And that's how you get gum out of the hair."