Recycling Bikini Wax

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Nothing is Impossible Power-User Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Sydney . Australia Posts: 418 Good Answers: 35	Recycling Bikini Wax 08/03/2019 6:20 AM
	while sitting in the waiting room while my girlfriend saw her bikini line specialist it occurred to me these salons must produce a fair quantity of wax and human hair which currently goes into landfill . What ideas can we come up with for recycling of the product ? the wax could potentially be turned in to biodiesel and the hair potentially a reinforcing material in concrete or other composites. there are businesses that collect and recycle coffee grinds which are used for compost to grow mushrooms among other uses so a similar collection scheme could be adopted. Another recycling venture is the collection of used cooking oil from restaurants and cafes for biodiesel which has a notable aspect of producing cooked food aromas from the vehicle exhaust, hopefully bikini wax doesn’t display the same characteristics if converted into fuel.
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SolarEagle Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: by the beach in Florida Posts: 33392 Good Answers: 1817	#1 Re: Recycling Bikini Wax 08/03/2019 8:47 AM
	I would think that recycling the wax would be a better choice...You just need to develop a purifying process...probably wouldn't be worth it unless you had hundreds, if not thousands, of facilities on board...and the process was cheap... __________________ All living things seek to control their own destiny....this is the purpose of life
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JE in Chicago Guru Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Chicago Posts: 3990 Good Answers: 144	#2 Re: Recycling Bikini Wax 08/04/2019 7:42 AM
	Cheap candles for the needy. Cooking fuel for the needy. ..or go full circle and use the flames to burn off body hair. Or just slather it back on the back at the discount waxers salon. ..Just think of the awe inspired by such a product.. __________________ High Tolerance is Beautiful
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artsmith Guru Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 3523 Good Answers: 146	#3 Re: Recycling Bikini Wax 08/04/2019 11:46 AM
	They probably filter out the hair and reuse it already. (the wax not the hair.) Don't think there's much of a market for the short hairs. I mean, people are paying to get rid of them in the first place. If you come up with an application for hair, think hairbrushes. Think tub drains! The lavish sources of material would outcompete short and curly there, any day. __________________ incus opella
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Anonymous Poster #1	#4 Re: Recycling Bikini Wax 08/24/2019 11:06 AM
	Mix the two and get the aroma of fish and chips?
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