"Tighten your hair, grow your hair. ”
In the countryside, it is common to hear people riding motorcycles through the streets and shouting to collect their hair, and you only need to click a clip to get a lot of money, but do you know what the hair is used for in the end?
If it's just a wig, it's acceptable, but if your hair is taken away and used to make soy sauce, don't you suddenly feel particularly sick to your stomach, and it's the first time I've heard that hair can be made into soy sauce.
Children living in the countryside often heard such shouts when they were young: "Collect your hair, grow your hair", I don't know if you still have the impression that the hawkers who collect their hair are riding bicycles and walking through the streets with loudspeakers.
Whenever this shouting is heard, someone will stop the vendor, and the women will bring their daughters to the vendor to see if the quality of the hair is up to par and how much it can be sold.
The vendors will carefully inspect the hair quality, and then take a ruler to measure the hair, and they will evaluate the hair according to factors such as hair quality and length, and of course, people do not accept all hair.
They also have requirements for hair collection, the kind of hair that has been permed and straightened has a pitiful price, or even does not accept it directly, and the price will be higher if it is not chemically treated.
Although it is rare to see hair collectors nowadays, in the past, the business of collecting hair was not too popular, after all, selling one's hair could exchange a lot of living expenses.
As long as the girl's hair meets the requirements, the two sides will continue to negotiate the price, and after the two sides negotiate the price, the person who receives the hair will pick up the scissors, and cut the long hair directly from the root of the hair, and the handful of hair, at least a few hundred yuan as a base.
At that time, a few hundred yuan was not a small amount, so there were many girls who had long hair, neither dyed nor permed, and when they kept it long enough, they would sell their hair and exchange it for a few hundred yuan.
It's a common thing in the countryside, but have you ever wondered where the hair collected by these vendors is sent and what it's used for?
With so much money for recycling hair, can the hawker really get his money back?
In fact, there is no need to worry about this at all, the hawker who collects the hair will make a steady profit, and some netizens have exposed the final destination of the hair, which makes people's backs chill after reading it.
Netizens said that these recycled hair can be used to make soy sauce, and when I heard this statement, I immediately felt that my stomach was turned upside down, and the soy sauce that we can't do without stir-frying and cooking, is it really made of hair?
Soy sauce is rich in amino acids, and hair is rich in protein, and if you break down your hair, you can get more than 20 kinds of amino acids.
In the nineties of the last century, there were some small workshops that found that adding acidic liquid to the hair, after the hair was hydrolyzed, adding flavorings, and letting it fuse with it, it could be made into soy sauce, and finally the whole package, it was impossible to see what the soy sauce was made of.
In addition to recycling long hair, these people will also go to the barber shop to make soy sauce from the broken hair cut by customers, and even some animal hair is the raw material of soy sauce.
Doesn't it sound disgusting, I don't know how many bacteria are in the hair of those animals, and they are made into soy sauce like this, and ordinary people can't see it at all.
However, the soy sauce produced by this method will cause great health risks to the human body, and the first thing we need to know is that both human hair and animal fur contain toxic elements such as mercury and lead.
These elements may not be visible, but once consumed for a long time, it will cause unimaginable damage to the human body, the liver, kidneys and even the reproductive system will be destroyed, and it will also lead to the occurrence of cancer.
However, you don't have to worry too much, now our country has a particularly strict control over this aspect, prohibiting the use of hair and other raw materials to process into soy sauce, and the amino acids in the soy sauce that people eat must be extracted from food.
That is, by the fermentation of beans and other crops, the amino acids produced, can be used as soy sauce, if anyone is against the wind to commit a crime, it is suspected of violating the law, in 2008 announced the list of food additives that prohibit the abuse of non-edible substances, hair water is on the list, it is indeed expressly prohibited.
So where did these long hairs end up, in fact, recycling hair is for better reuse, the first use is to make wigs, in the costume TV series we watch daily, the actors can't bring better program results because of their own hair problems.
So there is the birth of wig sets, and those recycled hair will be processed for secondary processing, will be made into a variety of wig sets, our hair contains a lot of protein, that is, fibrin, so to maintain flexibility and plasticity.
It only needs to be heated to soften the hair, and then made into a bun in costume dramas, so it looks so natural, if it is an industrially made wig, this effect cannot be achieved.
In addition to hair covers, these recycled long hair will also be sold to barber shops for styling hair extensions for young people, young people love to pursue fashion, hairstyles will be long and short, which has to talk about hair extensions.
Some girls think that their hair is too short or too thin, so they will come to the barber for a hair extension, so they will use the recycled real hair, and then the barber will braid the hair at the customer's original hair roots, and it will look like their own hair.
But that's not the most outrageous, have you ever heard of using hair to absorb oil?
For the first time in my life, I heard that hair can absorb oil, but don't doubt it, there is a real case in the world, in 2022, there was an oil spill when a ship transporting oil was passing through Peru.
The oil floats on the seashore, and if it is not treated, it is likely to cause serious ecological damage, so the local people have tried many ways to clean up this layer of oil, but all the machinery is used, but it has no real effect.
Eventually, some animals with hair were found to be covered in oil, so someone thought of using wigs and recycled hair to absorb oil, and after experiments, it was learned that one kilogram of hair could absorb eight to ten kilograms of oil.
Although the price of hair is not low, but now few people sell hair, today's girls are pursuing fashion, their own hair for so long, so cut off by a scissors, distressed not to mention, but also look particularly ugly, hair dealers cut down, will not give you a good look, hairstyle becomes particularly ugly.
As a result, no one is willing to sell their hair, and the hair sellers who used to walk the streets have disappeared.