If hair is removed from the ROOT, how come it still grows back?

Answer 1

Because the hair root is enclosed within a hair follicle and it's the follicle that produces new hair. Hair growth is a continous process and there are several phases leading to regrowth. When these are completed, a new hair begins to form and if the old hair has not already been shed, the new hair pushes the old one out and the growth cycle starts all over again.

Answer 2

If you are seeing a little white thing at the end of a hair which you have pulled out, that is not exactly a root as in the roots of a plant or a tree. It is tissue found in the follicle. Your follicle is what actually makes your hair.

Hair has resting and growing cycles which vary in length depending on whether you are male or female and where on you body the hair is. For instance, eyebrow hairs have cycles which are measured in weeks and the hair on your scalp has cycles measured in years (hence, the difference in length between the 2). During the growing cycle (called the anagen), a hair pulled out will have a pale white or clear bulb at the end. When a hair reaches its resting cycle (called the catagen) the follicle shrinks, and what we see as the root begins to dry up.

Eventually, the hair will fall out on is own or be pushed out by a new hair that begins to grow from the same follicle to take its place.

Rather than thinking of a hair as a plant with roots, think of it as a product of the follicle. When the hair "expires" it will be replaced during a growing cycle. If you pull it out "by the root", the follicle will just make more.

Answer 3

The folicle is what creates the root... which in turn grows out to be the hair....

So long as the folicle functions, there will continue to be hair. You need to destroy the folicle, or at least damage it enough to permanently end hair growth.

Sometimes plucking/waxing will damage the folicle, sometimes not. Where plucking is 1 hair at a time, waxing is the same thing, just on a regional scale, rather than on an individual basis.

Answer 4

There's something called the hair follicle, in which the root of a hair is actually lodged. They are a part of the skin and responsible for growing hair. So, unless the follicle is dead, it'll keep generating hair.

Answer 5

hair is removed from the root if waxed,not when shaving or using creams however!!but it grows back because the root feeds of the nourishment of the cells so it will keep growing back..thats why laser is the only thing that works!!because it burns the bulb forcing it to die and lose nourishment!!hope that helps...beauty therapist x

Answer 6

removing hair from the root does'nt mean the folicle that produces the hair has been removed,the folicle will still grow hair just slower without roots

Answer 7

its coz of the follicles in ur head. if you remove the follicle as well, and you get a piece of scalp with it after a while it will stop growing. its like if you wax your legs, after a while it doesn't grow as fast and eventually you manage to completely remove the follicle and hair stops growing!! It takes a fair while though!!

Answer 8

You lose about 100 strands of hair everyday. It is in it's falling out stage and yes it grows back

Answer 9

electrolysis cant destroy the papilla otherwise the skin tissue would die, electrolysis destroys the follicle, which is just an ingrowth of skin, which is what hair is, a bunch of tightly packed skin cells, your skin divides and grows everyday, as does hair, the "root" is just a light colored region where the cells are more alive and less packed together so it is a lighter color.

Answer 10

having laser treatment is really expensive. get a laser machine from argos, £100, but you don't have to go back several times. laser heats the hair root, which burns the hair making cell around it so that it stops making new hairs.