Island Life Magazine Ltd June/July 2014 | Page 81

ADVERTISING FEATURE Go organic with The Hair Shack T he Hair Shack in Ventnor was constructed by Carol, her husband and family. As much as possible they tried to up-cycle all the wood, plasterboard etc that they recovered from the existing fittings. Carol explained: “The flooring is sourced from sustainable bamboo and we have LED lighting. Our wash house, retail area, styling shelves and window areas, are all constructed from up-cycled floorboards recovered from a house locally that was being demolished. “Our desk and some of our chairs in the coffee area are old furniture given a new lease of life. Even our coffee table came from a charity shop in Salisbury. Our salon paint is paint recovered from landfill. Our teacups are lovingly collected from all over the country by family. We use bioD products for all our cleaning products. Through the salon we use recyclable towels which we can save for cleaning and put out for paper recycling. So we have no tumbledryer, and no washing machine!” Organic Colour Systems is the first-ever range of permanent colours made from the maximum amount of certified organic ingredients and the minimum amount of chemicals…to colour hair as naturally as possible. The unique approach is gentle but effective and easily colours even resistant grey ha