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Home » Keep It or Toss It: What to Do With Every Hair Product You Own

The Verdict Card

Five things can happen to a bottle, and only one means letting it go. This is what each verdict means, where the bottle physically goes, and what to do with the ones that aren’t right for your hair but may still have another use.

Part 1 · The four outcomes, and one holding pattern

What each verdict means for your curls

The Label Key gives you the verdict. This tells you what to do about it, including where the bottle physically goes when you put it down. The fifth row isn't a fate. It's what happens when the label didn't give either of us enough to go on.

Part 2 · Nothing is wasted

Where every other bottle goes

You bought these with your own money, and you're allowed to be annoyed about it. Almost none of them need to go in the trash. Highlighted below are the notes that apply to what's actually on your shelf, including the ones you're keeping.

Your verdict card

Where this list comes from. Whatever you added in The Label Key, on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere, and nothing is stored on our side, which also means clearing your browser data clears this.

The one rule worth taping to the mirror. A bottle you keep using only because you paid for it can cost you twice. The money is already gone, so you don’t have to keep paying with results you don’t want.

Free, and it stays free

Know someone with a full cabinet?

She’ll read her first label in about a minute, on her phone, standing in the store. There’s nothing to sign up for, and it reads her hair the same way it reads yours.

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