Does shaving the head stimulate the hair into growing back ‘thicker’?
Reply: This is an erroneous illusion! As in the situation with a man’s beard – constant shaving causes the hair shaft to ‘mature’ in the follicle, but when left unshaven emerges as thicker stubble. As the hair’s length increases it grows as hormonally programmed to do. The same principle applies to those with long hair – trimming it to a ‘bob’ will not stop an excessive hair fall problem. However those women (+ men) fortunate enough to be able to grow long hair know that split ends are stopped by trimming the hair back beyond the fractured shafts.
