The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is devastating and causing more and more damage every day. If you’re a wiggy or hairnista like Wendy, you can help with the clean up efforts. Find out how! For more information, and to find out how you can donate your old wigs or...

As the Gulf oil spill drags into day 42, hair salons around Lansing are doing their part to help out the gulf coast. Salons like the East Lansing's Douglas J Aveda Institute are collecting hair clippings and shipping them off to the non-profit Matter of Trust, where...

MADISON (WKOW) -- It's the biggest oil spill in history, and it's got many on the coast rushing to help out. But here at home, many are feeling a helpless feeling: not knowing where to start when looking for ways to help out. Deerfield resident Ken Roh feels the...

RIB MOUTAIN (WAOW)-- Seven year old, Brennan Shaughnessy knows hair clippings usually end up in the trash can, but his clippings have a different destination. His hair will be swept up and shipped out to help absorb oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Employees at Fantastic...

WATERLOO (KWWL) -- One Waterloo salon is boxing up hair to help clean up the gulf oil spill. O'hana Salon and Spa owner Jamie Oberreuter heard about the idea on the Today Show. Her salon is now saving hair from customers and sending it to Florida through a non-profit...

LOS ANGELES, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Downtown Los Angeles' community-centric barbershop, BOLT BARBERS™ is leading area efforts to use highly porous hair clippings to help soak up oil spilling into the Gulf as a result of the April 20th Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig...

OILY STRANDS: In light of the recent and tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Van Michael Salon is collecting and donating hair to help in the cleaning efforts of the spill. Instead of throwing the extra hair away from a haircut, they are saving it and donating it...

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - BP has accepted a boom made from human hair collected from Columbia salons to help with the oil spill clean up, the environmental group Matter of Trust announced Wednesday. More than a dozen Midlands salons have already pledged donations to the...

Scientists say the threat of oil moving from the Gulf of Mexico to Florida and beyond is great. There are some local businesses pitching in to help stop the flow. The Hair Cuttery in Staunton jumped on board Tuesday, donating all its hair clippings to Matter of...

QUINCY, Ill. (WGEM) -- There's a unique method being used to contain the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and you can help just by getting your hair cut. Great Clips salons nationwide are now donating their hair clippings to Matter of Trust, a nonprofit...