# Hair for charity

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-for-charity/222727>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 5, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-for-charity/222727 "2004-01-05T00:53:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-for-charity/222727/1 "2004-01-05T00:53:01Z")

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I’ve read that one can’t sell their hair “Gift of the Magi”-style because most people wash their hair too often and therefore strip the natural oils, making their hair too dry for wig-making. But my mom recently donated her ass-length hair to a Locks of Love (or something) charity that makes wigs for chemo patients. How does this work? Is it a mushy feel-good scam perpetrated by the makeover staff on the Maury Povich show or is the hair actually usable?

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-for-charity/222727/2 "2004-01-05T00:56:57Z")

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[http://www.wigsforkids.org/html/hair\_donation.htm](http://www.wigsforkids.org/html/hair_donation.htm)

[http://www.locksoflove.org/](http://www.locksoflove.org/)

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**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-for-charity/222727/3 "2004-01-05T01:56:33Z")

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On the other hand…

[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1\_270a.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_270a.html)

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-for-charity/222727/4 "2004-01-05T02:06:37Z")

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That column is ony 25 years old.