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India is simply ravishing indeed! Steamy, spicy and spiritual – India is a land that has delighted many a traveler since the beginning of civilization. Indian women are blessed with hair that is held as the most luxuriant in texture and feel across the globe. Everywhere you go in India, you will see women with gorgeous, long, silky, voluminous hair that catches every ray of light to make it dance and vibrate in joy. Most women in India use only natural vegan products for beauty care – ensuring that the hair is absolutely healthy and virgin.

Every year, well over 40 million devotees visit the temple in the town of Thirupati, in the state of Andhra Pradesh which lies east of the BigLove Indian Hair Extensions factory. On an average 65,000 devotees visit the temple every day, and on certain special days, the number can surge well over the half a million mark! Over half of the devotees who visit the temple shave their head and offer their hair in an act of sacrifice to Vishnu – the presiding deity in the temple. The temple itself traces its routes to the 2nd century AD and remains in continuous worship.

Legend has it that a shepherd mistakenly hit the Lord on his head, making a portion of his scalp bald. A princess noticed this bald spot, and feeling that such an attractive face should not have a bald spot, she immediately cut a portion of her hair and offered it to the Lord. Ever since then, it is said devotees who visit the temple “follow suit” and offer their hair in an act of self-sacrifice.

Today, over 1 tonne of hair is collected at the temple every day. Every bunch is carefully tied individually at the top, making sure we at BigLove can produce the world’s most beautiful and finest Indian hair products that are single donor and cuticle aligned. The money that the temple makes is reinvested into the community; funding free schools, food aid programs, free quality health care and other rural development programs. This is hair that is sourced ethically and spreads BigLove!

Legend has it that a shepherd mistakenly hit the Lord on his head, making a portion of his scalp bald. A princess noticed this bald spot, and feeling that such an attractive face should not have a bald spot, she immediately cut a portion of her hair and offered it to the Lord. Ever since then, it is said devotees who visit the temple “follow suit” and offer their hair in an act of self-sacrifice.

Today, over 1 tonne of hair is collected at the temple every day. Every bunch is carefully tied individually at the top, making sure we at BigLove can produce the world’s most beautiful and finest Indian hair products that are single donor and cuticle aligned. The money that the temple makes is reinvested into the community; funding free schools, food aid programs, free quality health care and other rural development programs. This is hair that is sourced ethically and spreads BigLove!

Authentic, Temple-Sourced Raw Indian Hair for Salons, Retailers and Hair Businesses

Since 1983, BigLove Indian Hair has been the trusted name in raw Indian hair wholesale. We operate a state-of-the-art raw Indian hair factory in Chennai, supplying premium unprocessed, cuticle-aligned human hair to some of the world’s top fashion brands, luxury salons, and hair retailers. Our commitment to ethical sourcing and superior quality has made us a go-to supplier for businesses seeking authentic raw Indian hair extensions, wigs, and lace frontals.

We guarantee that our is 100% Indian Human Hair ethically sourced from temples in South India. Our hair has never been dyed or treated by any chemicals. Our hair is the very best Raw Indian Hair available in the market.

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A timeline of the Indian hair trade

Upto 1940

Simply Spiritual

All hair that was given up as a spiritual offering was simply collected and burnt. The hair trade that was to become a multi-billion dollar did not exist.

Early 1940

Enter Korea

Koreans see the vast business potential of cuticle aligned hair. They start buying hair from the temples. They monopolize the hair industry and start manufacturing high quality human hair wigs and other hair pieces. Korean business houses start exporting to the western world.

1940 - 1950

A Korean Monopoly

Korea monopolizes the hair industry and starts manufacturing wigs and other hair pieces. They start exporting the hair to the western world. Demand slowly but surely picks up steam.

Early 1950

India Wakes Up

India discovers the potential of the hair trade and what Korea is up to. The temples decide to sell hair to only Indians. Indian companies start exporting hair to China.

1980 - 1990

China Dominates

China starts dominating the hair trade by making wigs and other hair products with hair sourced from India.

2000

Demand Grows Exponentially

The demand for quality hair booms, especially in the USA. India starts manufacturing quality hair products locally and uses the best quality virgin hair. Export to China of cuticle aligned hair slowly starts going down, through export of non-remy hair (hair that is collected after brushing / salon cut) continues.

2010

Chinese Tactics

China invents and perfects methods to make non-remy hair feel cuticle aligned with a "cuticle free" treatment that uses machines and chemicals to neutralize cuticle direction flow. In addition, China starts to use many marketing gimmicks and tactics such as branding low grade non-remy Indian hair as Brazilian, Cambodian and Malaysian hair. Price of this hair is kept low.

2013-2018

Rise of new Indian companies

New Indian companies manage to break the strangle hold old Indian hair exporters had on the market. The government of India mandates that hair must be bought from temples via a special online auction. New Hair products that are innovative and much better in design and quality than previously are launched. Pricing becomes much more competitive.

2015

Awareness in the USA

The USA is saturated with sub-standard chemically processed hair that is often mixed with synthetic and animal fibers, Awareness of true chemical free and naturally aligned Indian hair takes root. Consumers start to get more educated and better understand the value of authentic high quality human hair.

2020

COVID 19

COVID hits the hair market hard. Demand peeks, but supply drops. Unscrupulous hair companies drive the prices at temples to all time highs by buying out huge stocks of hair and continue to try to keep raw hair prices at temples high. China steps in and ensures that Raw hair prices at temples are constantly driven up.

2024

Post COVID 19

Prices stabilize though at much higher prices than before COVID. China continues to manipulate the prices of hair at temples. Many small Indian hair companies do not survive. Many of the few that still remain start resorting to unethical practices such as mixing hair and using harsh chemicals.