Hair Savers

Fascinating Facts About Hair

• Hair protects your body from heat, cold, and the rays of the sun.
• The adult human scaalp averages about 100,000 hairs.
• About 50 to 150 hairs are normally shed every day, or more than 4 million by age sixty.
• Hair on your scalp grows for two to five years, then rests for about three months.
• At any given time, about 10 percent of the hair on your head is in its resting phase.
• Hair grows about half an inch a month, or about six inches a year.
• If left uncut, hair can grow to a maximum of two and a half feet in length.
• If you never cut your hair, it would stop growing after about three years
• Hair grows fastest in the summer and slowest in the winter
• Female scalp hair grows faster than male scalp hair.
• The shape of hair follicles determines the type of hair. Straight hair comes from round follicles; wavy hair from oval follicles; and curly hair from flat follicles.
• Your hair is thickest at about he age of twenty. Hair thickness continues to shrin after that and becomes as fine as baby hair by age seventy.
• Hair thiinning starts becoming noticeable only after about 40 percent of your hair has been lost.

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