{"id":10870,"date":"2012-04-27T16:29:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T00:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=10870"},"modified":"2012-07-17T14:05:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T22:05:48","slug":"orchid-shampoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/27\/orchid-shampoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Shampoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I spotted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000NNQ4ZO\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=abouorch-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000NNQ4ZO\" target=\"_blank\">Herbal Essences Hello Hydration Shampoo<\/a> at the drugstore. After buying it, I saw that it contains &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orchis_mascula\" target=\"_blank\">Orchis mascula<\/a> flower extract.&#8221; This Orchis is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/11\/terrestrial-orchids\/\">terrestrial<\/a> species, probably a distant second to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/vanilla-valentine\/\">vanilla<\/a> as the most important commercial orchid. Native to an enormous range of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Northern Asia, its underground tubers have been used in traditional foods, medicines, and <a href=\"http:\/\/myorchidsjournal.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/turkish-wild-orchids-ice-cream.html\" target=\"_blank\">even ice cream<\/a> for millenia. Since it&#8217;s not a fragrant orchid, I&#8217;m not sure what purpose the flower extract serves for hair care, but the shampoo does leave my hair soft and moisturized like the label says. I certainly recommend you try it, and enjoy the flowers in your hair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000NNQ4ZO\/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=abouorch-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000NNQ4ZO\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.assoc-amazon.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;Format=_SL110_&amp;ASIN=B000NNQ4ZO&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=abouorch-20&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=abouorch-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000NNQ4ZO\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I spotted Herbal Essences Hello Hydration Shampoo at the drugstore. After buying it, I saw that it contains &#8220;Orchis mascula flower extract.&#8221; This Orchis is a terrestrial species, probably a distant second to vanilla as the most important commercial orchid. Native to an enormous range of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10870"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11851,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870\/revisions\/11851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}