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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Jeffrey_Friedl on 2026-07-24 09:38:50+00:00.

When my son was maybe four or five years old, he was particularly fussy in the bath one day, saying that the shampoo hurt his eyes. Baby shampoo is completely neutral for the eyes, so I knew he was just being fussy, but he insisted. Finally out of frustration, I said "Look" and proceeded to pour some directly into my eyes.

OH FUCKING HELL, IT BUUUUURNED. What I imagine a cocktail of lemon juice, napalm, and pepper spray might feel like. I don't know whether we got a bad bottle or it was just a shitty brand, but damn, it hurt.

(In my response to the situation, after flushing my eyes, I concentrated on his emotions: how it must have felt for him to have it hurt so much after daddy said it wouldn't hurt, and how it must have felt when daddy didn't believe him when he said it hurt.)

TL;DR: young son complained that shampoo hurt his eyes. To show that the shampoo didn't hurt, I poured some into my own eyes and found that that contrary to the "no tears" label, it burned like hell.