1. Black
people have more body hair than Asians, but whites have more than blacks.
2. 0.35
millimeters a day or 1 centimeter per month is the rate at which human hair
grows.
3. Shaving,
tweezing or waxing does not cause hair to grow back thicker or fuller.
4. Religious
convictions account for 7% of all men who don't shave.
5. Your
hair grows in response to individual biochemistry and hormones. Heredity,
genes, race, medications taken, physical and mental stress, and diet influence
these hormones.
6. Your
skin is subject to changes in its resiliency and thickness because of
temperature, humidity, diet and stress. This can affect shaving.
7. A
person’s face is composed of an outermost layer of skin that is primarily made
up of dead skin cell.
8. While
shaving, a person removes about as much skin as hair.
9. In
general a person produces new skin cells every 10 to 20 days.
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10.
When saturated with water, the
strength of a single strand of hair is approximately one third to one half less
than the strength of dry hair, making it much easier to shave.
11.
The average person has about 615
hairs per square centimeter.
12.
Men’s facial hair grows at a rate of
approximately half an inch per month (6 inches per year).
13.
The average man’s face contains
anywhere from 5,000 to 25,000 whiskers.
14.
Most shaving accidents are caused by
using dull and/or dirty razor blades, insufficient preparation of the skin and
hair before shaving, and using inappropriate equipment and products
15.
Facial hair growth rate varies with
each man and it even differs with each area on a man’s face.
16.
Due to a decrease in body fluids in
the morning, you should try to avoid shaving first thing when you wake-up.
17.
Alexander the Great observed that
beards could be easily grabbed by the enemy during battle and insisted his
troops fight with clean-shaven faces.
18.
1.3 billion of the men in the world
shave with a blade and razor.
19.
When a person shaves while his or
her skin is wet, these dead skin cells are removed.
20.
Ancient Egyptian barbers regularly
shaved their clients with razors and pumice stones, as a beard was considered
an indication of personal neglect.
21.
The straight cut-throat blade was
introduced in the Middle Ages.
22.
Peter the Great of Russia imposed a
tax on beards, which was collected at every town gate.
23.
Body hair usually grows out from an
individual’s skin at a 30 to 60 degree angle.
24.
The world's oldest existing barber's
is Truefitt and Hill in St James'Street, London, which opened in 1805.
25.
Just 1 per cent of men enjoy their
daily shave, with 99 per cent regarding it as an annoying chore.
26.
Hair grows faster during the day than
at night.
27.
The ideal shave angle (razor blade
meeting the face) is 28-32 degrees.
28.
Hair on the neck grows parallel to
the skin.
29.
The majority of men, 84%, shave at
the sink. Another 15% of men shave in the shower.
30.
The average man begins to shave
regularly when he begins to work regularly.
31.
1680 is the year in which the first
narrow-bladed folding straight razor was introduced.
32.
The Pharaohs of Egypt probably liked
a good shave every now and then, of course using nothing less than the best
made from gold and silver. Archeologists have found razor relics that date back
as far as the fourth century.
33.
Archeologists believe that caveman
used clams and shark teeth to shave with, 20,000 years ago-in the Stone Age!
34.
The Reason Fidel Castro originally
grew his beard is because his supply of Gillette Blades was cut off.
35.
Some archeologists think that many
warriors shaved their heads before battles so opponents didn’t have any hair to
pull … maybe they were discouraging the practice of scalping?
36.
Shave gels weren’t even thought of
until the 1970’s.
37.
It is false that human hair
continues to grow after death.
38.
5 million is the number of hair
follicles covering the human body.
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