Human Hair Facts
1. Blonds have more hair.
2. 80 head hairs are likely to fall every day.
3. A hair grows by 0.3 to 0.5 mm per day, 1 to 1.5 cm per month and
12 to 15 cm per year.
4. Human hair is made up of a body protein called keratin and it
grows out of an opening of the skin called Follicle.
5. Human hair is virtually indestructible.
6. In a lifetime, a human being will grow around six feet of nose
hair.
7. A single hair has the ability to support up to 100 grams of weight
and the whole head of hair has the ability to support up to 12 tons of weight.
8. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the
average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in
his lifetime.
9. Women’s hair is about half the diameter of men’s hair.
11. Redheads have the least dense hair, averaging about 86,000
follicles.
12. In 2008 scientists discovered a new species of bacteria that lives
in hairspray.
13. One human hair can support 3.5 ounces.
14. There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a
chimpanzee.
15. Curly hair comes out of an oval follicle.
16. On an average a persons head has 100,000 to 150,000 hairs.
17. On an average it takes about 13 days for a grey hair to grow.
18. On an average the human scalp has about 100,000 hairs.
19. On an average, in an adult scalp 35m of hair fiber is produced
every day.
20. Every day the average person loses 60-100 strands of hair.
21. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body.
22. Frequent washing of hair does not cause hair loss.
23. Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, the next being
bone marrow.
24. Healthy human hair emits sound.
25. Male hairs are denser and grow faster than females.
26. The average human head has 100,000 hair follicles, each of which
is capable of producing 20 individual hairs during a person’s lifetime. Blonds
average 146,000 follicles. People with black hair tend to have about 110,000
follicles, while those with brown hair are right on
27. The average person has about 100 000 scalp hairs.
28. The color of our hair is also determined by the melanin, a pigment
present in the human body.
29. The eyelashes shed by a human in their entire life is oabout 30
Metres of length.
30. The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average.
31. The maximum length of hair can be 70 to 90 cms.
32. The pigment of human hair is produced in the shaft of hair beneath
the skin.
33. There is no scientific evidence that shaving or waxing will make
your hair come back thicker.
34. You must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent
to anyone.
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