Yesterday I took the plunge. Over the last several months I had grown attached to my long hair, although my original intention in growing it out was so it could be donated. So after weeks of hemming and hawing, I finally took the plunge and chopped off 12 inches of it for donation.
The hair will be going to Pantene's Beautiful Lengths program, which makes wigs for women battling through cancer treatments. I decided to donate to Pantene's program for a couple of different reasons. One being that they are slightly less stringent and second being that they seem to use more of the hair that is sent to them. Several months ago I read an article in the New York Times that reported on hair donation and that Locks of Love only uses a very small percentage of hair that is donated to them. Locks of Love doesn't have the resources necessary to utilize it all, thus I am hoping that Pantene will actually put my hair to use!
In the process of looking on line for a place to get my hair cut I also ran across this interesting article from the Portland Tribune that discusses a program based out of San Francisco that turns the cuttings from hair into mats that suck up oil spills. These mats can be reused, the oil can be collected and be reused as well, and the mats can be broken down organically. In the recent oil spill outside of SF Bay many of these mats were used in the process. The program is called Matter of Trust and collects hair from over 300,000 salons and barbershops.
Who knew hair could be such a sustainable product?!
2 comments:
That's really neat! I have thought about doing that before too, and am glad to know that there is another place to donate. Especially if all the hair isn't going to be used at Locks of Love!
How special that your hair will now be available to bless others! It's a renewable resource --- and I'm sure you look cute in the shorter cut.
Thanks for your post about your recipe collection. Mine used to be like yours --- but in later years it got ahead of me and I now file my 'scraps of paper' recipes and recipes from magazines in sheet protectors and place them in notebooks. I keep the notebooks by theme (I actually have a large notebook just full of TOFU recipes! LOL!). Recipes are so interesting and tell their own story (about family history, health trends, the advent of prepared foods, etc.).
:) LaTeaDah
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