Welcome To Roches
About Roches
Welcome to Roches, Ireland’s only (one-stop) Head to Toe Cancer Care and Alopecia Care Centre. We deeply care about how Cancer, Alopecia, Hair Thinning, and medical interventions affect your appearance, confidence, and well-being.
Family-run for nearly 50 years, Anne Roche and her expert team boast a combined 71 years of experience in hair replacement and breastcare. Our commitment lies in offering specialized, compassionate, and dedicated service to our valued clients. We take pride not only in our service but also in our extensive knowledge on hair loss, regrowth, breast surgery, grants, and allowances.
We provide an extensive selection of products and services relevant to those experiencing alopecia & different forms of cancer resulting in hair loss or breast surgery. We are always available to offer advice and answer any questions you may have. See our alopecia and cancer specific services and products below.
Our recently added services include a scalp & hair spa, as well as a wellness centre featuring holistic treatments such as oncology massage, facials, reflexology, eye brow microblading, see a full list of our wellness & holistic services below.
Our mission has always been to offer services and products that help restore appearance, comfort, confidence, and well-being. Our team of hairdressers, colourists, scalp specialists, wig/breastcare fitters, holistic therapists, and health coaches are all professional experts, specially trained in their field, experienced, and fully accredited.
If you want to know how it all started and evolved from a small wig room in a hair salon to a comprehensive end-to-end service dedicated to cancer and alopecia clients, read on…
More than Wigs & Breast Care
The latest addition to Roches, and Anne’s personal passion, was to add a Wellness Centre within the Roches building, offering coaching, counselling, workshops, education, and an array of holistic therapies suitable for everyone, including those with cancer or beyond.
“I always knew that with our insights and knowledge of cancer, alopecia, their treatments, and side effects, we had a lot more to offer, in addition to appearance-related products and services.
We are delighted to be able to offer you emotional support, psychological techniques, relaxing treatments, healing therapies, and educational programs that will empower and remind you of the pivotal role you can play, alongside your medical team, in regaining and maintaining your health.” Anne Roche
alopecia & cancer specific services
- Hair Loss & Hair Thinning Consultations: Hair loss caused by medical treatments such as chemotherapy, age related hair thinning, or any form alpoecia including areata, totalis, cicatricial and trichotillomania.
- Wigs & Hair Toppers: We stock a huge range of synthetic hair, heat resistant synthetic hair, blended hair, & human hair wigs from world leading suppliers, such as Ellen Wille, Trendco, Jon Renau, Gisela Mayer and Rokoko.
- Men’s Toupees and Hair Systems: Find a large selection of men’s wigs, toupees and hair systems at Roches. Toupees and hair systems can be fixed to the scalp using tapes or glue-on systems. There are lots of options to meet every need.
- Custom Hair Systems: Sometimes your perfect piece is not available straight from a catalogue, but don’t worry, here at Roches we can create a template directly from your head and have your exact requirements made. This option is great for certain types of alopecia such as frontal fibrosing alopecia or alopecia areata.
- Organic Hair and Scalp Spa: We are proud to provide Oway organic hair colour, hair care and scalp care in our dedicated, private hair spa. Our dedicated salon space ensures you are in a safe and private area where you can relax and be pampered. Our salon is perfect for people who may feel uncomfortable in a regular hair salon, as it is a private space. In addition to organic hair colour and hair styling, we offer soothing scalp treatments, hair regrowth treatments, hair conditioning and hair regenerating treatments in our hair & scalp spa.
- Scalp Analysis: An extension of our hair spa is our scalp analysis consultation. These consultations are fantastic to find out the health of your hair and scalp. The analysis is non invasive, it is a powerful magnification of your scalp enabling you to see the condition of your scalp and the health of your hair follicles. This is a fantastic way of identifying what products are best for the needs of your hair and scalp.
- Breast Care: We are one of Ireland’s largest dedicated breast care stockists. We stock a large variety of mastectomy bras, breast prostheses and swimwear. Recently, we have also introduced custom made breast prostheses to our repertoire.
wellness & holistic services
Our wellness & holistic services are constantly expanding. Here are some of the current services:
- Massages & Facials tailored for those undergoing cancer treatment: Many spas will not provide treatments to anybody undergoing cancer treatment, although they can provide substantial benefits. Here at Roches, we have trained to provide full body massages and facials specifically for those undergoing treatment. All our treatments are adaptable, use a light yet therapeutic and relaxing touch, and use organic, chemical free oils specifically formulated for cancer treated skin.
- Simonton Cancer Counselling: Anne Roche provides the “Getting Well Again” counselling service at Roches. If you’ve read about Roches and how it has been built on experience you will understand how passionate Anne is about helping people in every possible way during their cancer experience. The programme is evidence based & comprehensive for people with cancer, it teaches you how to impact your health and treatment outcomes positively.
- Reflexology: Maura, from Sole to Heal provides reflexology tailored to cancer care, fertility, maternity and menopause, reiki, lymphatic reflexology, ear candling & chakra balancing.
- Eyebrow Microblading: Olive & Debbie from Browtique provides beautiful Eyebrow Microblading at Roches. Olive and Debbie are registered nurses and, therefore, are approved to provide microblading during chemotherapy. You’re in the safest of hands with the ladies from Browtique.
- Areola Tattoo: By Aislinn, provides hyper-realistic areola tattooing to women who have had breast surgery leading to the loss of their areola and nipple. Aislinn is a registered nurse, so you will experience the highest level of care and hygiene practices to prevent any possibility of infection. Aislinn’s work is absolutely outstanding.
- Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Skin Rejuvenation: Beth from The Skin Club, is a registered nurse who provides holistic, skin rejuvenating treatments at Roches. Beth provides natural treatments that transform the skin without the need for botox or dermal fillers.
To book one of the above wellness & holistic services, please email info@roches.ie or phone (01) 492 6829
Built on Experience
Anne’s parents, Maura and Fergus Roche, the husband-and-wife team of Roches Hair & Beauty Salons, were content running their busy salon until cancer struck Maura in 1986. Diagnosed with stage 3-4 Ovarian cancer at 47, Maura found herself in the newly built tiny wig room, being fitted for a wig by her husband Fergus, a recently trained wig fitter & wig maker.
Throughout Maura’s 2 years of treatment, which included surgeries, chemo, radiotherapy, lifestyle changes, and mindset adjustments, she continued to work whenever possible. Known for her empathy, she would remove her wig for clients upset about their hair loss, to show that hair loss can be concealed and managed.
When Maura returned to work after getting the all-clear, it was the wig room she wanted to be in, and so, the rest is history. Maura and Fergus poured their desire to help others through their lived experience into developing a dedicated centre for wigs and hair loss, leaving behind hair and beauty services.
Maura & Fergus’ passion was passed down to their daughter Anne Roche, who also had cancer in 1998, fortunately requiring only surgery. Anne listened intently to all the concerns of the clients she fitted with wigs and started adding missing services or products that clients spoke about, such as statement headwear, nail care, skincare, scalp care, and post-hair loss scalp and hair colour.
Anne developed a dedicated team of expert wig, hair loss, and hair replacement specialists and further expanded the premises in 2010 to incorporate a speciality breast prosthesis, mastectomy lingerie, and swimwear boutique. Anne’s holistic vision for a comprehensive cancer care and alopecia care centre was realised.