HAIR.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 September 1926, Page 11

HAIR.

HAIR is distributed all over the human body, except the palms of the hands, the soles of the feet, the lips, and the eye-lids. The head and face have the thickest and longest growth, writes Dr. Arthur Selwyn Brown in Popular Mechanics. There are about 1200 hairs per square, inch on the top of the head of a middle-aged man, and 160 per square inch on the face. Race, sex, age, condition of health, habits, and climatic changes all influence the thickness and growth of the hair. A woman' with black hair has about 600 hairs, per square inch on the top of the head, while a blonde has 760 per square inch, and a brown-haired person lias about 650 hairs ,per square inch. A. black-haired person has the thickest liai!f\and a blonde the finest. The total number of hairs on the head of any ordinary black -haired- woman is about 110,000, while a -blonde has 150,000, and a red-haired .woman l only 30,000. A woman’s hair ,is coarser and heavier than a man’s, and it grows longer. The average length of hair of women of the Anglo-Saxon race is from IS to 30 inches, and that of Men -between 6 and 10 .inches. Men’s hair will seldom.grow as long as women’s. The average, speed of hair growth is 2in. per month, Dr. Brown tells us. The period of growth of .the hair on the head is about six years, and the eVelaslies have a life} of about 130 days. After these periods the hairs wilt and fail out.