Just in case you’re not getting the shine and bounce you want when you wash your pooch, several big-name hair care companies are now offering salon-quality shampoos for Marley and you.

As dog is our witness, Kiehl’s, Paul Mitchell and TIGI all have a specific line of products for longhairs, shorthairs, wirehairs, silkies and any other breed you might occasionally stick in the tub.

According to the American Pet Products Association, pet industry expenditures in the United States will top $45 billion in 2009, including an estimated $10 billion on supplies/OTC medicine and $3.2 billion for grooming and boarding. It’s not quite as much as we spend on human grooming, but we don’t shampoo our animals every other day, either.

And with an estimated 77.5 million canine companions in the U.S., who can blame Kiehl’s, Paul Mitchell or TIGI for trying to mark this territory?

Kiehl’s offers three products, including Cuddly-Coat Shampoo and Conditioner as well as Spray-n-Play Cleansing Spritz (8 oz., $12). It was hard to tell at first whether this was for Fido or the furniture, but apparently, it’s for when your Lhasa Apso-lutely rolls in something you do NOT want tracked into the house.

Paul Mitchell’s line is sold under the name of John Paul Pet and includes shampoos, conditioners and wipes. Among the shampoos are Tearless for Puppies (Johnson & Johnson take note) and a waterless foam.

TIGI, famous for its funky Bed Head line, takes it a paw further with Pet Head, which not only has the best-named grooming supplies (Life’s An Itch, Dirty Talk, Furball …), but offers accessories, apparel and toys “only for cool dogs.”

John Paul and Pet Head are sold in most major pet-supply stores and all of the products are available online at varying prices.  And of course, just because it’s a salon-product doesn’t mean it will clean Rex any better than one of the less-expensive brands.

LookinGood’s Chief Vanity Officer, Gina, still reminds her Uncle Bill about the week he visited and went home raving about the hair product that was in the guest bathroom. When her Aunt called to find out what it was, Gina sheepdoggishly admitted it was the dog’s shampoo.

If Uncle Bill’s coat hadn’t been the shiniest it’s ever been, Gina would have been in the doghouse.

Here at LookinGood, we like to multitask. For example, washing our hair while mentally composing one of this week’s posts. Or having a mani/pedi and debating O.P.I. vs. Essie with the esthetician while mentally composing one of next week’s posts. Or actually typing one of those posts whilst wearing a soothing mask of seaweed extract.

Doing so many things simultaneously can wear you out. Not to mention that the calories we’re consuming while we do all that thinking and typing are not burning off as quickly as we’d like. That line about child-bearing hips only works if you are of child-bearing age. It’s almost distracting enough to make us forget our lips are looking a little thin.

A couple of products we recently found however, really have our curiosity piqued. Huge Lips, Skinny Hips Lip Gloss as well as Burner Balm’s Energy-X Lip Balm, claim to be the answer we’re looking for. The companies are completely unrelated, come from opposite coasts and have different target audiences. Huge Lips, Skinny Hips (hard to say, isn’t it?)  is a beauty product that says it will plump your lips and make you less hungry. Energy-X wants to be your no-calorie Red Bull or PowerBar alternative.

Wow, using them together could enhance our looks, moisten and plump our lips, suppress our appetites and give us the energy to make it through all 576 pages of the September issue of Vogue. Whew.

According to Dr. Allan Kurtz, Board Certified Internal Medicine and developing doctor behind Burner Balm, “Energy-X is applied directly on the lips and is therefore absorbed faster into the bloodstream and starts working immediately. A drink has to be swallowed, get into the stomach, and then absorbed, plus stomach acids and food at times may delay absorption.”

And really, who has time for delayed absorption these days? The lip balm, one of five offerings from Burner Balm, contains massive doses of caffeine, green tea extract and the appetite suppressant hoodia, a root extract from Africa, of its other products. The website says it can be applied under lipstick.

Better yet, follow it with one of the six shades of Huge Lips, Skinny Hips, which also contains hoodia, as well as lemon peel oil to provide that lip-plumping irritant.

Of course, the argument has been made that the amount of the hoodia you’ll absorb through your lips from the lip gloss is not significant enough to truly suppress your appetite. But hey, it probably won’t make you hungrier.  And if you combine it with the lip balm, you’ve more than doubled your intake. Plus all that extra energy will have you doing things that burn more calories right off those hips.

Like WALKING to the day spa for the anti-aging facial and mentally composing next week’s posts.

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