Facts About Hair

[kate.winselt]

• The average scalp has more than 100,000 hairs.

• The maximum length hair can grow to is 70-90 cm.

• A normal person can lose upto 100 hairs a day, from the scalp.

• You must lose at least about half your hair, to make hair loss noticeable.

• Hair is the second fastest growing tissue in the body.

• The average life of a single strand of hair is 3-7 years.

• Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails - keratin.

• When your hair is wet, it can increase its length by up to 30% and still return to normal length after it's dried.

• Forty percent of women by the time they reach menopause will have female pattern (hereditary) hair loss. Over 50% of men by age 50 have male pattern hair loss.

• The only places on the human body where we don’t grow hair are on the palms of our hands, the soles of our feet and our lips .

[Elena K]

[*]When your hair is wet, it can increase its length by up to 30% and still return to normal length after it's dried.

I always thought that wet hair just seem longer because water makes it heavier

[sonia2012]

sunsilk shampoo is also the product used to grow your hair fast. Aside from this, there are several shampoo's such as L'Oreal.