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• Position: Giving - Locks of Love, Wigs for Kids, or Pantene Beautiful Lengths - Brief article

A popular way for young people to help others is to donate their hair for wigs for people with cancer. But before you start cutting yours off for Locks of Love, Wigs for Kids, or Pantene Beautiful Lengths--some of the organizations involved in such efforts--make sure your hair meets their guidelines. Locks of Love receives mountains of hair, but says 80 percent winds up in the trash: It's too short or too processed to be used in wigs, or it arrives wet and moldy. And check where the hair...