How Long Can Your Hair Grow?

Not everybody in this world can grow long and strong hair. The strength and the quality of hair are hereditary and also depend upon how you treat it from the beginning. Many people often lose their hair at an early age and their dream of growing long hair is shattered. Here are some basic ways of growing long hair the healthy way.

First thing to do is to avoid all kinds of harmful chemicals on your hair such as hair gels, hair mousse and other sorts of these kinds of substances. These substances damage the quality of the hair to a great extent which makes your hair fall and eventually turn bald.

You should apply hair oil regularly which will give proteins and vitamins to your hair. It will also make your hair beautiful and soft. It is also important to trim your hair every two months so that your hair grows long much faster. It is also very important to see the kind of shampoo you are using. It has to be completely natural and chemical free.

The most noticeable part of human hair (on most human's that is) is the hair on your head. Head hair grows longer than on humans than most other mammals and is denser than most of the hair found elsewhere on the body. The average human head has about 100,000 hair follicles. Where hair is missing from the head, it's called alopecia, otherwise known as baldness. Scientists speculate that long head hair may be a by product of secondary natural selection once other somatic hair had been lost. Another possibility is that long head hair is a result of Fisherian runaway sexual selection, where long lustrous hair is a visible marker for a healthy individual (with good nutrition, waist length hair�approximately 1 meter or 39 inches long�would take around 80 months, or just under 7 years, to grow). This would explain why long head hair (in both sexes) is viewed as attractive even now.

Studies have also shown that the length of how long your hair will grow much depends on your genes. Many people, how ever hard they try, just can't grow their hair any longer than a certain length and it is thought that this is because the genes they are carrying will only allow the head hair to grow to a certain length. So no matter how much you desire long beautiful lock, your genes might not let you!

Your hair grows constantly.  The average rate of growth is about 1/2 inch per month.