surprising ways youre ruining your hair

Did you know that the hair on your head can stand the weight of two elephants or that red is the rarest hair colour? And that s not the half of it: read on to find out more!

Although hair is one of the most common types of forensic evidence, you can t tell someone s gender from a strand of their hair.

The core structure of the human hair can reveal information about everything that has ever been in the bloodstream, including drugs.

There are approximately 5 million hair follicles in the human body.

All of the hair follicles in humans are formed by the time a fetus is just five months old.

Hair can stretch up to 30 per cent of its original length when wet.

The most common natural hair colour globally is black. Blondes make up just 2 per cent of the population.

Red is the rarest hair colour, found in one per cent of the population.

Every time a hair falls out, it will re grow. It can do this up to 20 times in a lifetime.

After bone marrow, hair is the second fastest growing tissue of the body.