Hair Regrowth

Hair Regrowth after shaving promotes the hair to grow back thicker and darker. We rip, pluck, shave, and even chemically burn in an effort to rid ourselves of unwanted excess hair. It is commonly said that if you wax hair it grows back finer and shaving encourages more hair growth. This is not a proven scientific fact.

Leg hair, underarm hair, nasal hair or scalp hair, it’s basically composed of the same stuff – mostly a high sulphur protein called keratin. And it’s so strong, that even stomach acids can’t break it down which explains why it’s so tough to remove. Today for permanent hair removal we laser hair.

Each hair grows from its own follicle in the skin and there are about 5 million of those on our body, all growing at different rates independently. Therefore, laser hair removal needs to be done in a series of treatments. While the scalp Hair Regrowth is fastest, the leg hair grows back at a slightly slower rate - about .3 of a millimetre a day. Eyebrows are slower growing still.

The waxed hairs take longer to regrow as they had been ripped out from the follicle. Waxing gives the impression of reduced hair regeneration because of the removal of some of the hairs from the root. These take longer to grow than those in the second stage of the growth cycle.

With shaved hair it seems as though the hair growth is back thicker because there is a mixture of growing hairs and resting hairs. Basically Hair Regrowth occurs in a three stage cycle and the timing differs from hair to hair. A hair plucked at the beginning of its cycle will take longer to grow back than an old hair that’s up for replacement.