Our favourite sustainable hair salons around Melbourne
IMAGE VIA BERRY HAIR STUDIO
WORDS BY ZEMIRA WHITEHEAD
Look good, feel great.
A new haircut or colour can be an exciting or daunting decision (sometimes both), so finding a salon that perfectly executes your vision isn’t always easy. It’s even harder when you’re searching for one that aligns with your sustainability preferences.
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But fear not – we’ve curated a list of Melbourne’s best sustainable hair salons that offer a wide range of services, from haircuts and colouring to styling and treatments. These salons are each certified through Sustainable Salons, a social enterprise that works with salons to reduce their impact on the planet and invest in local communities.
Berry Hair Studio
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Berry Hair Studio believes hair should be a fun and ever-evolving form of self-expression. Using low-toxic and cruelty-free products that don’t cost the planet, this salon is about embracing your natural texture and enhancing what you love about yourself through cut and colour.
Ground Level, 344 Johnston Street, Abbotsford
Grace Gold
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Grace Gold is a sustainable and cruelty-free salon that creates low-maintenance, lived-in natural colour – think multidimensional brunettes, rich coppers and sun-kissed blondes. With 100 per cent of its waste recycled through Sustainable Salons, Grace Gold ensures its impact on the earth is as little as possible.
395 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Miss Gertrude
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Located in the heart of Fitzroy, Miss Gertrude is a warm, inclusive salon with a team of highly experienced stylists and technicians. Miss Gertrude offers clients the option to eliminate 95 per cent of the negative impact of their salon service by paying a $3 fee on their service bill.
Rear of 150 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
Organika Hair
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Organika Hair believes great hair shouldn’t have adverse impacts on your health and uses only the latest in natural and organic products. Not only does it care about the health and wellbeing of its clients but it also donates ponytails to cancer and alopecia sufferers and donates proceeds gained from recycling the salon’s metals to a variety of not-for-profit community organisations.
161 Elgin Street, Carlton and 140a Ormond Road, Elwood
Alchemy Hair Salon
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Run by established hairdresser Becc Snow, this gender-neutral salon is all about curls, colour and innovation. At Alchemy Hair you can find on-trend cuts and colours and a curated selection of plant-based products.
408 Smith Street, Collingwood
Bob Hair
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Bob Hair is a natural hair salon founded on the belief that a simpler approach to wellbeing enriches our lives. From the way it recycles to the labels it uses and the practices it implements, Bob Hair is committed to ensuring its work does not come at the cost of the Earth. Its team is composed of skilled stylists who share this vision and are passionate about creating beautiful, healthy hair while minimising their environmental impact.
286 Toorak Road, South Yarra
Donna Sheridan
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Shags, mullets, fringes and bobs – Donna Sheridan will execute the low-effort and effortlessly cool cut of your dreams. Each time you visit, a green service fee of $3 will be added to your bill which goes towards the salon’s commitment to being sustainable. On top of this, it stocks sustainable haircare brands Kevin Murphy and Davines.
71 Kerr Street, Fitzroy
Stache
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Stache is a zero-waste, low-carbon salon that’s dedicated to making a change within the hairdressing industry. It does this by reducing chemical waste in its waterways, donating hair to be made into wigs for kids with alopecia and donating 100 per cent of its recycling benefits to those in need. Aside from these brilliant credentials, it boasts a sleek, state-of-the-art salon and a roster of enviably cool stylists.
1/158 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
Everyday
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Under the same ownership as Stache, Everyday Hair holds the same sustainability credentials as its sister salon so you can be sure you’re making the best decision for the planet while transforming your everyday look into one that feels uniquely you.
169 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Mitch Studio
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Certified carbon-neutral salon Mitch does its part by donating its hair clippings to be used for cleaning up oil spills, as compost in community gardens and to charitable wig services. Plus, all leftover salon chemicals are used in construction and road works so as not to pollute the waterways and plastic bottles and bags are recycled into new products and packaging. With such a strong focus on sustainability, Mitch Studio is at the forefront of Melbourne’s sustainable salons.
166 High St, Ashburton
Telleish Hair Studio
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Telleish Hair Studio is reminiscent of a New York-style loft, and with a diverse team of 17 stylists, colourists and precision cutters, your hair will be in safe hands. In alignment with its sustainable ethos, Telleish only uses cruelty-free products and offers ammonia-free colour and vegan haircare.
89 Gladstone Street, South Melbourne
Edwards and Co
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With eight salons across Australia, Edwards and Co has gained a reputation for its beachy blow-outs and perfectly blended balayages. And with a variety of sustainable and natural products stocked at its salons, you can be sure to keep your hair looking fresh and healthy for weeks.
26 St Edmonds Road, Prahran and 230 Brunswick Street, St David Sreet, Fitzroy
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