# Wigmakers...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wigmakers/260188>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [August 17, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wigmakers/260188 "2004-08-17T03:25:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leslie83](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@Leslie83](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leslie83)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wigmakers/260188/1 "2004-08-17T03:25:06Z")

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I just read [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1\_270a.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_270a.html) - in which Cecil explains that wigmakers rarely buy human hair from people who keep theirs clean because it’s too brittle. Last winter I donated my hair to Locks of Love. I’m a relatively clean person, as seemed the other people who were donating… What’s the deal, did my hair really go towards making a wig for someone or was it all a scam?

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wigmakers/260188/2 "2004-08-17T04:31:59Z")

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Locks of Love is probably not an outright scam, but in November 2003 they did not meet the Better Business Bureau’s standards for charity accountability, FWIW.

[http://www.give.org/reports/care2\_dyn.asp?733](http://www.give.org/reports/care2_dyn.asp?733)