20 Weird Things You Didn’t Know About Your Hair

Most women usually dedicate a few minutes – or hours – a day to hair care. Whether to comb, wash or moisturize, the attention dedicated to the wires reflects how important this part of the body is for many people’s self-esteem.

However, more than performing an aesthetic role, our hair has an essential protective function for the scalp, avoiding the aggressions of solar radiation. In addition, they are also full of curiosities that you may not already know:

1. We are in mourning

We’re sorry, but all your hair is dead! But this is normal: the hair is only alive while it is still inside the epidermis.

2. He knows everything

Although dead, his hair is a snitch: it contains information about everything that passed through his blood, including drugs. That’s why it’s used in anti-doping tests.

3. Minus that

But there’s one thing your hair doesn’t count: your sex. It is not possible to know whether a thread belongs to a man or a woman.

4. We are all brothers

Their hair is mostly made of keratin, the same protein that makes up animals’ horns, hooves, feathers and beaks.

5. The yarn formula

In chemical terms, hair is 50% carbon, 21% oxygen, 17% nitrogen, 6% hydrogen and 1% sulfur.

6. Do you have split ends?

This won’t improve the look of the yarn, but if you want to use a fancier name, know that this condition is called trichoptylosis.

7. Heat powered

Do you think your hair grows longer in the summer? You are right! The heat stimulates blood circulation and hair growth.

8. Growing up like magic

When wet, healthy hair can stretch up to 30% longer than its original length. Of course, the effect is only temporary.

9. It’s just not worth pulling out

Under normal conditions, as soon as a hair is taken from your follicle, new hair begins to grow there.

10. I will say goodbye

In fact, the life expectancy of a hair is approximately 5 years. After that, he will depart this life for a better one (or not, as he is already dead anyway).

11. Would it look good?

Hair and fur can grow on any part of the body, except on the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, eyelids, lips and mucous membranes.

12. Rest crowd

Right now, 90% of your hairs are growing, while 10% are just resting and waiting for your moment of glory.

13. The pace is frantic

Hair is the second fastest growing tissue in our body, second only to bone marrow.

14. Going bald?

Baldness only starts to become visible after a person has lost more than 50% of their hair.

15. You have to protect yourself

In addition to aesthetics, another problem with baldness is that the scalp loses thermal protection, as the fat that insulates the skin is not so present in this region.

16. All chills

The goose bumps happen because the cold and emotions are able to contract the arrector pili muscle, lifting the follicle higher and lowering the skin around it.

17. Rare article

The most common hair in the world is black, present in 84% of people. Then comes the brown, with 11%. The rarest are blondes (3%) and redheads (2%).

18. Kingdom of the redheads

Scotland is the country with the highest proportion of redheads: around 13% of the population there has reddish and orange tones in their hair.

19. Who has more hair?

Hair color influences the number of strands: blondes have the most hair, while reds are in the last position.

20. Fragile hair?

Your hair is stronger than it looks: each strand is capable of supporting a weight of 100 grams. By adding up the capacity of each strand, our entire hair is capable of supporting the weight of two elephants!

This list of facts is for information and entertainment purposes only. If your hair is experiencing excessive fall or other problems, the most recommended thing is that you look for a dermatologist to make an in-person evaluation and seek treatment.