Sourcing & Sustainability
Temple to salon, without the folklore.
Most of the extension industry runs on stories: "ethically sourced", "single-donor", "cruelty-free". We publish the chain of custody. Four verifiable steps between a temple offering and the parting in your chair. If a supplier can't map their own four, they're guessing.
The chain of custody.
The temple
Tirumala, Tirupati, Palani. Voluntary tonsure — an offering older than the extension industry. Hair is auctioned, not bought door-to-door.
The sorting tables
Chennai. Trained sorters, each on the factory for months before touching a lot. Root-to-tip alignment done by hand, at a fair wage above the state minimum.
The finishing & QC house
Wefting, K-Tip fusion, custom colour, and EU-standard verification before dispatch.
The salon
London, New York, Milan, Dubai. Certified Stylist, verified hair, retention protocol in place.
Commitments
Six things we can prove.
Single-donor traceability
Every lot carries a temple-of-origin code and a retained DNA sample. If a batch fails in the field, we recall the lot — not just the customer.
Fair-wage sorting
Our Chennai sorting tables pays 1.8× the Tamil Nadu textile-sector minimum. Six-month training, health insurance, women-led team management.
No child labour, ever
Third-party audited annually. Zero tolerance across every tier of our supply chain, including sub-contracted colour houses.
pH-neutral colour chemistry
We refuse acid stripping. It's cheaper, faster, and the reason non-Remy hair fails at month three. We don't do that.
Recyclable pack-out
Cardboard and glassine only. No plastic clamshells, no PET wrap. Wholesale pallets ship on returnable frames within the EU.
By the numbers.
Where we won't compromise
The line we don't cross.
Chinese acid-stripped non-Remy hair costs $30–$40 per 100g at the factory door. Buying it would make us 15% richer per order. We won't. Our founder's family has been in this trade long enough to know: the client always finds out at month three, and no salon rebooks a stylist twice on failed hair. The economics of shortcuts don't work over a career.