- Children lose an average of 90 strands of hair a day. This count increases to 120 for adults.
- Scalp hairs grow at a rate of 1 to 1.5 cm per month or 12 to 15 cm per year.
- The average scalp has 100,000 to 150,000 hairs.
- The life expectancy of hair is three years or over 60 cm.
- Hair is the 2nd fastest growing tissue in the body after bone marrow.
- A single hair strand can support up to 100 grams in weight and a whole head of hair can support up to 12 tons-equivalent to two African elephants.
- Africans and Europeans are more prone to balding than Asians.
- The word shampoo comes from the Hindi chmpn which means to massage or knead.
- One centimeter of your hair holds all your personal record of the past month--what you ate, drank, and the environments you were in.
- Melanin gives hair its color. These are made up of dark (eumelanins) and yellow (phaeomelanins) granules called melanocytes that mix together to obtain different shades of hair color.
Source: COSMOPOLITAN MAG (August, 2005)