5. Bread
Oh yes, a common ingredient found in commercial breads labelled as either l-cysteine or dough conditioner actually comes from human hair gathered from barber shops and hair salons in China. The hair is dissolved in acid and l-cysteine is isolated, packaged and sent off to producers. Some L-cysteine is synthetically produced but majority of it comes from natural proteins like hair, duck feathers and cow horns. Gross doesn’t even begin to describe how I feel about this.
6. Leg Hair Font
A 20 year old student from Tama Art University in Japan created this font using leg hair. While you will probably not see this font on any on my graphics any time soon, it’s certainly an original idea!
7. Banner
This massive banner runs the length of the foyer at Dartmouth College and was made using a whopping 420 pounds of human hair. Art or not and even though I don’t mind human hair extensions*, I would seriously have to fight the urge to run in the opposite direction screaming at so much human hair in one place. Too weird for me.
8. Clothes
This certainly falls into the weird category for me. Designed by Fatich & Young the suit called a predator suit is made from human hair, dentures and glass eyes. They even have matching shoes with the entire heel made from dentures! Not the kind of thing you will see in your local shopping mall but it wouldn’t be hard to imagine that lady Gaga already owns one in every color!
9. Soy Sauce
Ok this is not a common nor an acceptable occurrence but it was uncovered that a Chinese company was distilling human hair to produce amino acids, a primary ingredient of soy sauce. Soy sauce is usually made from soy beans and wheat. This is gross without a doubt but funnily kind of resourceful too don’t you think?
10. Staircases
If this isn’t the most impressive, weirdest and grossest thing that you have ever seen, I don’t know what is. This is an art installation created in the abandoned Mountainaire Hotel by Jessica Wohl. The fact that it’s made from synthetic hair does nothing to improve it’s itch inducing creepiness. Creative but ewwww!
Are there other strange uses for hair that I have missed?
Ameenya German says
Ewwww, the bread and soy sauce is super gross!
Ebony Harding says
Will never eat store bought bread again….soy sauce Eeeewwwww
Chavon Walton says
The Chinese don’t waste anything!
Celeste Jackman says
Disgusting
Nl ManouBens Be says
The bread n soy sauce tho’ was gross indeed
Michelle Bacco says
Bread and soy…omg… gross