Where to donate hair? (1 Viewer)

[Ruffrodys05]

I have about 12-14 inches of hair I want to donate to a worthwhile charity. If anyone has any info or suggestions to help me choose which organization to donate to I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance for any input.

Rody

 

[bigbottom]

Do you have a preference as to what it is used for?

 

[Chaos Commish]

Gave mine to Locks of Love, or I should say the lady who cut my hair donated it to the program. Your hair becomes a wig and then goes to a chemo patient who cannot afford one. I think it should be easy to find a salon who does this for you. It was for me.

 

[bigbottom]

Gave mine to Locks of Love, or I should say the lady who cut my hair donated it to the program. Your hair becomes a wig and then goes to a chemo patient who cannot afford one. I think it should be easy to find a salon who does this for you. It was for me.

Nice gesture, and you should feel good about your donation. But most hair donated to Locks of Love does not go to chemo patients.

 

[Chaos Commish]

Gave mine to Locks of Love, or I should say the lady who cut my hair donated it to the program. Your hair becomes a wig and then goes to a chemo patient who cannot afford one. I think it should be easy to find a salon who does this for you. It was for me.

Nice gesture, and you should feel good about your donation. But most hair donated to Locks of Love does not go to chemo patients.

You may know more about this than me, but my hair had some grey in it and was disqualified from the kids program that most associate with LoL. I was told mine would go to an adult with similar financial issues and almost all of them were chemo patients.

eta: my sis owns the salon, fwiw...

 

[bigbottom]

Gave mine to Locks of Love, or I should say the lady who cut my hair donated it to the program. Your hair becomes a wig and then goes to a chemo patient who cannot afford one. I think it should be easy to find a salon who does this for you. It was for me.

Nice gesture, and you should feel good about your donation. But most hair donated to Locks of Love does not go to chemo patients.

You may know more about this than me, but my hair had some grey in it and was disqualified from the kids program that most associate with LoL. I was told mine would go to an adult with similar financial issues and almost all of them were chemo patients.

eta: my sis owns the salon, fwiw...

Per Locks of Love's own FAQ page, most of their recipients suffer from alopecia areata. They don't provide hairpieces made from real hair to those with temporary hair loss, which represents the majority of chemo patients. Also, Locks of Love only makes hairpieces for children. Donations with gray hair are sold off to other companies that purchase hair rather than used to make hairpieces for Locks of Love recipients. I imagine your donation helped raise money for Locks of Love, which is awesome because they do good work. It's just that most of the work they do with respect to hair donation involves alopecia patients rather than cancer patients. Again, you should feel really good about your donation.

 

[Chaos Commish]

Gave mine to Locks of Love, or I should say the lady who cut my hair donated it to the program. Your hair becomes a wig and then goes to a chemo patient who cannot afford one. I think it should be easy to find a salon who does this for you. It was for me.

Nice gesture, and you should feel good about your donation. But most hair donated to Locks of Love does not go to chemo patients.

You may know more about this than me, but my hair had some grey in it and was disqualified from the kids program that most associate with LoL. I was told mine would go to an adult with similar financial issues and almost all of them were chemo patients.

eta: my sis owns the salon, fwiw...

Per Locks of Love's own FAQ page, most of their recipients suffer from alopecia areata. They don't provide hairpieces made from real hair to those with temporary hair loss, which represents the majority of chemo patients. Also, Locks of Love only makes hairpieces for children. Donations with gray hair are sold off to other companies that purchase hair rather than used to make hairpieces for Locks of Love recipients. I imagine your donation helped raise money for Locks of Love, which is awesome because they do good work. It's just that most of the work they do with respect to hair donation involves alopecia patients rather than cancer patients. Again, you should feel really good about your donation.

Thanks. I don't know much about it just that I was under some pressure to cut it and donate it.

I trust the salon put it to good use. I know they ship about a dozen bagged pony tails weekly.

So to Ruffrody, I still suggest using a salon as a simple way to get it done.

eta also 8 inches was the magic number, btw. My tail was 11.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Any local St. Baldrick's event is a goodway to do this.

 

[Ruffrodys05]

Yep, 8 inches was minimum. Had it cut last night, most of it was 12 inches, all grey/white. A friend (who works in a salon) cut it. She asked my preference between Pantene or Locks and knew of no others. She told me Locks charges for wigs while Pantene does not. I have plenty of time to choose as the salon doesn't send the hair they collect until they have a good amount to send off.

I don't have a preference for how it's used other than that it gets used for a good cause. Anyway, was just looking for input from anyone who had experience with this. Thanks folks for the comments already.

BTW, no clue what a Saint Baldricks event is...

 

[Bucky86]

Can you donate pubes?

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Say what now?

 

[offdee]

Keep your sweet tail!

 

[James Daulton]

Bunch a hippies up in here.

 

[Ruffrodys05]

Bunch a hippies up in here.

Hey, I resemble that remark...

My hair turned grey early (around 25) and has just turned more white as the years have gone by. Let it grow out the last 6 years and finally got tired of it being long. I look somewhat respectable now that it's cut. I'm still a hippie though.....

 

[DocHolliday]

When I cut off my hair about 10 years ago, it was donated to Locks of Love. It was tough cutting it off but thinking that some little girl could use it helped the decision. Somewhere hopefully, some little girl is a little happier running around with my blonde locks.

 

[Snoopy]

BTW, no clue what a Saint Baldricks event is...

Think of the "Bald" in that name.

It is a charity where people donate money to have your head shaved bald for childhood cancer.

 

[Ruffrodys05]

BTW, no clue what a Saint Baldricks event is...

Think of the "Bald" in that name.

It is a charity where people donate money to have your head shaved bald for childhood cancer.

Ahhh....thanks for the info. Still got plenty of hair left, and I think I've got a nice dome, so may go that route with the next cut.