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...
The situation in the Gulf of Mexico just got a little hairier with Los Altos Retreat Salon & Spa’s first-aid shipment of – what else? – hair, to a warehouse in Florida. Add nylon stockings, meshing and a little elbow grease, and the hair that once covered heads...
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...
Hair’s a good idea. As the federal government and BP bungle the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, two Williamsburg salons — one for humans, one for dogs — has come forward with a plan that’s just crazy enough to work: for the next month, all of their customers’ clip...
(June 4, 2010) — USAToday.com online now has a story on the actions of BP and its federal bureaucratic partners spurning volunteered animal fur and human hair that could soak up oil from the BP-drilled, federally-authorized deep water well in the Gulf coast. The...
Hair may be a solution. The Hair Academy is collecting its hair clippings to send to New Orleans to be used in booms to sop up oil in the Gulf. “Everyone was very excited, very willing to help,” said Kelli Folk, who brought the idea to her teacher. “Even our clients...
