Curious about where your ponies end up?
It’s pretty impressive!
First stop: The Sustainable Salons Depot
When ponytails arrive at the Sustainable Salons depot, their team sorts and grades every ponytail by hand according to length, colour and hair type… this is why filling out your Ponytail Donation Form is necessary. It helps us get those pretty ponies to their destination much faster.
The ponytails need to be sorted into various categories because each recipient Sustainable Salons distribute to has different requirements depending on how they process them for wig-making.
Charitable Organisations
Sustainable Salons send ponytails to charitable organisations, such as the Australia Alopecia Areata Foundation (AAAF), The Children's Charity and Freedom Wigs NZ, to be made into charitable wigs or to fund life-changing programs.
As high-grade ponytails are super valuable, sometimes organisations sell them to wig-makers and use the return to help fund life-changing programs (including providing wigs to kids!) across their amazing platforms.
Independent Wigmakers
They also send ponytails to local, independent wigmakers to be made into charitable wigs.
These wigmakers work directly with clients they find through connections with hospitals, and local community and support groups. These clients are mostly adults, so the wigmakers can work with shorter and coloured hair because adult hairstyles rarely require the long, virgin-condition ponytails that children’s wigs do.
