Hair Facts!

• The average scalp has around 1000 hairs per Sq. inch.
• Genetic hair loss can be passed down from either the paternal or maternal side of the family tree.
• If you tied all the hairs of an average female from end to end the hair would stretch 30km… that’s roughly the distance from Dover to Calais!

• Hair is the second-fastest growing tissue on the body; bone marrow is the fastest.
• 10% of scalp hairs are resting – the remainder are growing.
• The average diameter of a hair is 0.03mm – this means that about 30 strands of hair will add up to a millimetre.

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• Shaving hair does not cause it to grow faster.
• The only places on the surface of a human body that hair does not grow are the soles of the feet, the palms of the hands, mucous membranes and the lips.
• As we age the number of pigments in the hair decreases which results in the hair becoming grey or white.

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• In summer hair grows faster.
• The hair of elderly people grows slower than younger people.
• Recent research indicates smoking can increase the chance of hair loss.

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• Hair generally grows about 12cm per year – that’s almost 10 metres throughout a person’s whole life.
• Brushing the hair is more damaging than combing.
• Washing your hair frequently will not increase chances of hair loss.

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• Women’s hair grows slower than men’s and is generally thinner.
• Each hair on a person’s head will grow for 2-7 years before it is replaced by a new hair.
• Over 40% of women will experience hair loss at some point in their life.

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• Everybody’s hair grows to a different length and it is very unusual for hair to grow longer than 90cm.
• One strand of hair can support about 100g in weight.  So add it up and a whole head of hair could carry 2 elephants!
• Over 50% of men experience hair loss at some point in their life.

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• You can not tell a person’s gender by examining their hair.
• Blonde people have the most scalp hair, with an average of 140,000 and people with red hair have the least, with around 90,000.  Those with brown or black hair have about 110,000 hairs.
• Thinning hair only becomes visibly noticeable when about 50% has been lost from an area.

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• African hair grows slowest and Asian hair grows fastest.
• African hair is the most fragile, whereas Asian hair is the strongest and most elastic.
• Asians are less likely to be affected by hair loss than Africans and Europeans.

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• By examining a person’s hair you can find out a person’s ethnic origin, what a person has eaten, if they drink, smoke or if they have taken drugs.  You could think of hair as a logbook of a person’s life!

• Your hair grows 0.3-0.5mm each day.  As people have an average of around 100,000 hairs on their head this means a person’s overall daily hair growth is 30-50 metres!

• It is normal to lose between 50-100 hairs each day from the scalp alone.

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