With hair trends evolving at the speed of light, it can be challenging for your tresses to keep up. After all, changing your ...

1 of 2 Adele Williams creates mats from human hair. They are made using a needle felting machine (pictured) and designed to be used to absorb oil from oil spills. Adele Williams Hair salons send ...

“I wanted to use this specific wool, because [it] looks like human hair. I came back to the UK, and my tutor was like, ‘Why don’t you use [actual] human hair, because it looks so similar?’ ...

As compared to traditional agriculture, hydroponic farming uses less space and less water ... derived from discarded human hair. Our hair contains large amounts of a protein known as keratin ...

Researchers at the University of Kentucky are investigating how to use human hair to make more sustainable construction materials. Eric Sanders University of Kentucky A team of researchers in the ...

Hopefully, it will soon spread to other countries as well. Aside from serving as an absorptive mat, human hair can be used for many other things. It can be turned into an all-natural fiber ...

Artist Karen Keenan discovered she had family ties to the centuries-old practice of turning human hair into art through an ...

The Hair Recycle project feeds locks and tresses into a machine that turns them into matted squares that can be used to absorb oil and other hydrocarbons polluting the environment, or made into ...

However, it’s just now going viral as more consumers discover that amino acids (also known as L-cysteine), used to extend the ... synthesized” from human hair. While some L-cysteine can ...

After a fire damaged it, ropes made from human hair donated from across Japan were mixed with hemp and used during its reconstruction in the 19th century. But using hair as a textile isn’t ...

The mats are then used to clean up oil slicks ... In a 2018 study, Murray found that buffers made of recycled human hair could adsorb 0.84 grams of crude oil onto its surface for every gram ...