Clean hair stockpiled to help with oil spill – June 2010

MIDDLETOWN — Debby Mastrianni, owner of The Hair Affair inside Main Street Market, opens up a cardboard box packed with about 250 different types of shorn hair. Normally, this large cluster of locks would just be swept up and thrown away. But for now, Mastrianni...

Valley animal fibers helping Gulf relief effort – June 2010

Idaho may be land locked, but Valley residents are pulling together to help the Gulf clean-up effort by using fibers from ranch animals. Tetonia alpaca breeder Tom Cleary is spearheading an effort to collect clippings that will be made into oil-soaking booms in the...

Salon Contributes to Gulf Clean-Up Effort – June 2010

Santa Barbara’s Salon Patine, located on upper State Street, has taken an inventive, practical approach to cleaning the Gulf of Mexico of the oil that now permeates it. In collaboration with Pureology Serious Color Care, which is also making a conscious effort to help...