Stress & Hair Loss

General facts on hair- Hair facts

Wonderful- Amazing Hair Facts

Hair facts are really funny and breadth-taking

The first hair fact is hair-actually is a dead material when it leaves it's root - otherwise it would hurt very much when your hairdresser works with his scissor.Dry hair is composed of five-tenths to seven-tenths parts of incombustible material. It is one of the most indestructible of all our physical possessions, almost as much so as the teeth

Some of the important hair facts are:Stress is the main cause of hair loss,Women need good nutrition during pregnancy,The Thickness of your hair is decided by your genes,We usually loose 80-130 hairs ,Combing regularly is good,Hair is strong as a wire of iron,Baldness can be passed

Another hair fact is Healthy hair has an average lifetime of 2-6 years.

Chemically, it consists of 23 per cent of alkaline sulfates , 2 to 10 per cent of oxide of iron (if it is a high per cent the hair will be quite red) and 40 per cent of silica. The analysis of the hair substance determines it to consist of 50 parts of carbon; 6.36 of hydrogen; 17.14 of nitrogen; 20.85 of oxygen, and 5 of sulfur.

Some of the amazing facts of hair / facts about hair are summarized as

1. Stress is the main cause of hair loss and Gray hair appearances.

"We see soo many poor people living on the Road side who don't nutritious food as like a person traveling on a luxury car. But its easy to see that the poor guy has good dense hair on his head , while the one driving luxury car is most likely to be a bald one."

But that what Stress and Tension can do .Its LIFE

2.Women need good nutrition during pregnancy and post birth..if nutrition is inadequate along with hormonal changes can cause temporary Hair Loss.

3. The Thickness of your hair is decided by your genes. Shaving your hair may make it regrow a bit thickener but as it grow out its diameter stabilizes.

4. We usually loose 80-130 hairs per day without actually noticing it.Hair gets lost in activities like Bathing , playing ,scratching,Stress times, Combing and Styling etc

5. Combing regularly is good as it increases hair circulation in scalp..and mostly combing in circular ways will give rise to healthy and lustrous hair.

6.Hair is strong as a wire of iron. It rips after applying a force equivalent to 60kg, only after it stretched itself for about 70%.

7. The average scalp has 100,000 strands, or just fewer than 1000 per square inch.

8.Baldness can be passed down through paternal or maternal genes.

9.When your hair is wet, it can increase its length by up to 30% and still return to normal length after it's dried. If you stretch your hair too often you can damage it and cause breakage to the hair shaft.

10.Usually people will only notice that you are balding when you have lost almost 50% of the hair in your scalp. When you reach that stage, it might be too late to recover back all your hair.

11.On a normal scalp there are about 100-150 thousand hair fibers.

12.A blond head of hair has usually much more fibers than red or dark haired heads.

13. Hair consists mainly of keratin, which is also responsible for the elasticity of fingernails.

14.A single hair has a thickness of 0.02-0.04mm, so that 20-50 hair fibers next to each other make one millimeter. . Hair is strong as a wire of iron. It rips after applying a force equivalent to 55kg, after it stretched itself for about 70%.

15.The root of a hair fiber sticks in a bag in the skin. The fiber is pushed out of this bag about 0.32mm per day, making an average growth rate of 1cm, or half of an inch, per month. The growth rate is however very much related to the individual person, his/her age, his/her diet etc.