The hairdresser no longer throws the hair she cut. Laetitia Guédez sends them to the Solidhair organization that helps sick people to finance their wig.

The initiative

"I was looking for a way to use scrap hair I cut," says Laetitia Guédez best hair extensions, aged 25. The young woman opened her hair salon there nearly six years in Plougourvest. Browsing the Internet and Facebook, it falls on the Solidhair website that offers to donate her hair. "Knowing people who have faced the problem of hair loss due to cancer, I launched me ..." says the young hairdresser.

natural hair

Now, instead of throwing them away lace wigs online, Laetitia collects the hair strands, and donates to Solidhair, which sells them to a barber. The money raised is then used to provide financial assistance to people with cancer who have to buy wigs. Solidhair pays € 300 to the patient for natural wigs that sell for up to € 700.


To give, it is not complicated: just make an appointment at the show, the cup is free. Only shampoo and brushing are the responsibility of the client. "The locks must measure 20 cm minimum, says Laetitia. It also requires that the hair is natural. "

The strands were then shipped to the association. Those that measure 20 to 25 cm are sold between € 80 and 100 kg. Those measuring more than 40 cm, 800 to € 1,000