beauty multi-tasking: hair conditioner as shaving cream

Ever since I discovered, from just about every hair expert I've ever spoken to, that you really only need to condition hair from midway down to the ends, I've developed quite the stash of hair conditioner bottles cluttering up my shower. (Before, I used to absolutely douse my whole head of hair with conditioner, but, since my hair is super fine, I only managed to weigh down any dreamed-of, Valley of the Dolls volume I might have had). The result: I'm out of shampoo well before that bottle of conditioner, and, rather than try to use it all up, I still manage to leave the drugstore with not just that new brand of shampoo but, of course, its matching conditioner. Hence, that leaves me flush with unused bottles of hair conditioner. But what to do with all of it? Turns out, conditioner makes a brilliant shaving cream. Since I've never been quite satisfied with soap as my pre-shave lather, I recently layered on my good ol' Pantene Pro-V conditioner, and lo and behold, after shaving, my legs felt as soft and silky as any high-end shaving cream. Call it my eco-warrior-meets-MacGyver beauty moment.