We are so encouraged by such shakers and movers as these two young black female entreprenuers who have natural hair care products. Check them out! Read more

We here at Bean Soup Times often walk the line in pointing out the ironies of life, but not wanting to make mockery of people. We could not resist reporting this article by Hello Beautiful. First they referenced blackvoices.com.

From blackvoices.com:

Used as either the butt of a joke or the subject of Chris Rock’s “Good Hair” documentary, hair weave hasn’t been taken seriously for years. However today, that changes as government officials are requesting just that to help in the containment efforts of the BP oil spill.

Hair is hydrophobic — is this why women don’t like to get their hair wet? — so it absorbs petroleum while water slides off. The technique was apparently discovered by an Alabama hair stylist named Phil McCrory, who found that the hundreds of thousands of pounds of weave are disposed of daily.

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From hellobeautiful.com

The staff at HB took it upon ourselves to come up with a gallery of celebs who could single-handedly help clean up the oil spill:

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