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On average, a hair strand's life span is five and a half years.

Did you know...

Walking outdoors into cold weather with wet hair can cause freezing and hair to snap. Dry it off first!...
Your chance of going gray increases 10-20% every decade after 30 years....
Pulling out 1 gray hair does NOT cause 7 to grow back. What it will do however is cause damage to the root preventing any other hairs to grow back....
Cutting can help your hair grow longer than it could before, but it doesn’t make it grow faster....
Scientists tell us hair is as strong as aluminum, can hold one third its weight in absorbed moisture and can be stretched to one and a half times its length, when wet....
Normally, due to the higher levels of female hormones Estrogens, the growth cycle of hair is slower in women than in men....
Dandruff (also called scurf and historically termed Pityriasis capitis) is due to the excessive shedding of dead skin cells from the scalp....
Scalp does regenerate. The cycle of hair growth happens every 28 days....
Water composition in your hair can reach 30%, which mean very good to create moist hair....
Hair is made of keratin, the same substance that forms nails and the barrier at the top of the skin....
The cortex is in the middle layer that gives strength to your hair....
The cuticle is in the outside layer that defines the meaning of hair flexibility....
Each hair consist of 3 layers : cuticle, cortex, and medulla....
Electrolysis was invented by Charles E. Michel, a St. Louis Opthalmologist in 1875. Dr. Michel used galvanic current and a surgical needle in his device, which was developed to treat ingrown eyelashes....
The earliest means of chemical hair removal dates back to the ancient Turks, who used a concoction known as "rusma". Rusma is a combination of yellow sulfide of arsenic, quicklime, and rose water....
The removal of unwanted body hair can be dated back to the time of the ancient Egyptians, who used abrasion as a way to remove hair. Ancient Romans and Greeks used pumice stones and other abrasives to remove hair. Native Americans and Pacific Islanders removed hair by scraping with seashells. In anc...
The curling iron was developed in 1875 by a Frenchman, Marcel Grateau. Not to be confused with Marcel Marceau, the famous mime. ...
Canities is the technical term for gray hair. Trichoptilosis is the technical term for split ends. So next time you go to the salon, ask your stylist to color your canities and trim off your trichoptilosis. ...
Normally, dry hair can be stretched one-fifth of it's length before breaking. Wet hair can stretch between 40-50% of it's length. ...
There is an average of 1,000 hairs per square inch. I guess that means the bigger your head is, the more hair you have. ...
The numbers of hairs on the head vary with the hair's natural color. Redheads have about 90,000. Black, 108,000. Brown, 140,000. And blondes not only have more fun, they have more hair too. They have about 140,000....
Hair is shed on a daily basis. It is normal to shed between 75-150 hairs per day....
Hair's natural part is caused by the condition known as a hairstream. Hairstream refers to the effect that is created when the hair follicles slope in the same direction, thereby determining the directional flow of the hair. When two hairstreams slope in opposite directions, a natural part occurs. I...
The average life span of a strand of hair is between 4 and 7 years....
Hair grows approximately one-half inch per month. Hair growth occurs fastest between the ages of 15 and 30, and grows faster on women than men....
The fine, downy hair that covers the cheeks and other parts of the face is called lanugo hair. ...
Darker hair contains higher levels of carbon than blonde hair. ...
The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs....
The fastest growing tissue in the human body is hair....
The longest human beard on record is 17.5 feet, held by Hans N. Langseth who was born in Norway in 1846....
The loss of eyelashes is referred to as madarosis....
The big toe is the foot reflexology pressure point for the head....
The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing "melanin" which gives the hair colour....
The reason why some people get a cowlick is because the growth of their hair is in a spiral pattern, which causes the hair to either stand straight up, or goes to a certain angle....
The average human head weighs about eight pounds....
Hair will fall out faster on a person that is on a crash diet....
Humans have about the same number of hair follicles as a chimpanzee has....
In a lifetime, an average man will shave 20,000 times....
Next to bone marrow, hair is the fastest growing tissue in the human body....
On average redheads have 90,000 hairs. People with black hair have about 110,000 hairs....
On average, a hair strand's life span is five and a half years....
On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving....

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