How is the hair obtained?
Rest assured, the way that hair is obtained is not an inhumane process. A factory will send a representative out to a village, or even to places like monasteries, and there he or she will contract with the residents to grow hair for a specified period of time, depending on the length of hair the factory is looking for. Human hair grows at an average rate of 1/2 inch a month, so that a five year contract will yield approximately 30 inches of hair. There are very specific guidelines the growers must follow if they wish to enter into the contract. They must use natural herbal preparations to wash and condition their hair, they must never use blowdryers, curling irons, or commercial styling products, they must not color or perm it, and they must keep the hair covered to protect it from pollution and sun damage. At the end of the contracted time period, the factories go in and “harvest” the hair, and then pay the growers for their “crop”. The method of removal is not inhumane. Sometimes the
