Socially responsible hair

May 30th, 2007

Have you ever considered donating your hair to women who have lost theirs during chemotherapy? Well, you can. Pantene’s new beautiful lengths program has a downloadable kit with instructions. Cutting off your locks for a cause is the easy part; meeting the requirements to donate hair is a little more tricky. Here are the requirements:

Donated hair must be a minimum of 8 inches long (measure hair from just above the elastic band of the ponytail to the ends).
Wavy/curly hair texture is fine (you may straighten hair to measure).
The hair should be freshly washed and completely dry, without any styling products.
The hair may be colored with vegetable dyes, rinses and semi-permanent dyes. It cannot be bleached, permanently colored or chemically treated.
The hair must not be more than five percent gray.

Consider being socially responsible if you are contemplating a shorter style. You have the power to help a woman during the greatest fight of her life.

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Posted on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 at 6:29 am

Sara

I did this!! In fact, I went for my first haircut (I’m 24 years old!) and cut 12 inches and will donate 9 inches to Pantene. It’s so cool to be able to do this. My mom had to wear a wig during chemotherapy for lymphoma and while she was blessed with a great quality one that was made from manufactured hair..I would love to have my hair to be a blessing to another woman who may have need of it!

Thanks for posting about this, Angie!

Posted on May 30th, 2007 at 9:46 am

Audrey

Locks of Love is another group that does this. http://www.locksoflove.org/

A lot of salons will cut your hair free or with a discount if you tell them you are donating it.

Posted on May 31st, 2007 at 12:45 pm

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Posted on May 31st, 2007 at 1:04 pm

Dalma

i want to shave my head and donate my hair, but i’m waiting until next summer so my hair can grow longer. i didn’t know pantene had a campaign for that, but i will definitely consider them now.

Posted on June 8th, 2007 at 8:22 am

GLENNE

Hi. im 13 years old. and when i was 10 i donated 18 inches of hair i loved donated my hairthe feeling of giving is great and in 5 months i will be ready to donate another 14!

Posted on May 7th, 2009 at 1:46 pm

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