[Greenbuilding] Human hair (was Re: bovine booster)

[Lawrence Lile]

>Dunno about using it in earthen floors or plasters, but I know a guy who collected people hair from salons and used it in lime plaster. He considers it a failed experiment. Much too fine and pliable, with a really aggravating tendency to clump up.

One could collect plenty of hair from my sink drains.  I'd be glad to donate it, just come and get it.  Bring your auger.  Includes free soap.

--Lawrence





From: greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Gennaro Brooks-Church
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 6:09 PM
To: Green Building
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Human hair (was Re: bovine booster)

Yes now that I look into it human hair isn't that strong. You can barely pull apart a horse hair. Strong stuff. Same for pig hair. But human hair is like wet noodles compared.

Gennaro Brooks-Church

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On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Mark Piepkorn <duckchow at potkettleblack.com<mailto:duckchow at potkettleblack.com>> wrote:
On 1/19/2011 4:32 PM, Gennaro Brooks-Church wrote:
... earthen floor ... Human hair too - lots of hair salons here in NY! How about that for local green building - NY green builders using human hair because is the most readily available.

Dunno about using it in earthen floors or plasters, but I know a guy who collected people hair from salons and used it in lime plaster. He considers it a failed experiment. Much too fine and pliable, with a really aggravating tendency to clump up.




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