Why Chinese Manufacturers Started Calling Multi-Donor Hair “Virgin Hair” (The Real Economic Reason)

There was NEVER a shortage of raw hair.
The shortage narrative is a myth.

Here is the real reason the definitions changed:

**Raw hair is expensive.

Multi-donor hair is cheap.
Factories wanted to sell cheap hair at high margins.**

That’s it.

Using the word “virgin” helped:

✔ reassure buyers
✔ create perceived quality
✔ justify mid-tier pricing
✔ stay competitive in the budget market
✔ maintain global dominance in hair manufacturing

This wasn’t an “industry evolution.”

It was a marketing strategy.

 

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