Hair extension and wigs are popular in the West conturies.India is busy to export human hair. India is the largest country in the world exports of hair, and the hair mostly from India temples. Because women make their hair shaved to God in India.

Indian woman pious devotion on the temple, thriving India specific hair export trade. India Tirupati temple worship, is an eight feet tall, with two thousand years of history Vishnu idol. Body painting with sandalwood statue of spices, his head wear a golden crown, golden crown inlaid with one of the world's largest emerald, Golden Delicious under the bushy hair. Statues with red trimmed and diamond eyes covered with tape. Hinduism believes that if Vishnu eyes exposed to the sun, it will send flames scorched the earth.Thousands of devout believers,row of a long team, waiting for God summoned. There are two million pilgrims to worship here every year.

Women come here often do one thing, as a devout they cut off my hair, contribute to the temple. Believers donations make this temple become India's richest . Because in a few days, these tons of long hair, was shipped out from the temple , sold to the port city of Chennai,eventually exported to western countries,and become decorations of the United Kingdom, United States and France. Hair demand on the Britain and the United States market,making the Indians devotion to earn a lot of money in fashion product.

India's major temples and exporters get profit more than 300 million U.S. Dollars from human hair in a year. Hindus account for 85% of India's population, women at least once donated hair to the temple.Indian hair products can be seen everywhere in the Western world today.

Some dealers do hair business as a competitor of temples.They went to rural India, looking for long hair women, get the hair in lower price. In Chennai suburban slums, there is often some women were taken to a yard,both young and old, cut there hair,collectors just give some hairpin or something back to them. The hair was sent to the processing plant, and sell to exporters after cleaning and tied into a bundle.

Indian hair business has thrived for 60 years, human hair sales fell after the emergence of artificial substitutes. But since the Western countries, especially European consumers complained artificial product can cause skin allergies, the demand for natural hair again soared. Hair from villages and slums of India, because no dyed or treated and not using a variety of chemicals products hair care, therefore more popular with consumers.