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[20 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]
What is lanugo hair?

Lanugo is the word derived from Latin and it means “down”- denotes the small fine hairs of the plant. Lanugo is a downy (fine) hair and it is a type of pelage (hairs of the body, limbs and head is collectively called) often found in Teratomas.
Lanugo and the relation with fetal development:
Lanugo forms and grows on fetuses and it is a normal part of gestation. Lanugo in its normal part, it grows, usually shed and replaced by vellus type of hair. The shedding occurs at 33 to 36 weeks of …

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[20 Jun 2010 | 3 Comments | ]
Natural Hair Restoration-A simple guide

The answer for natural hair restoration will not be enjoyed by every one. The simple reason is that the loss of hair and turning of hair into grey color is under the influence of genetically inherited trait. The hair starts to fall out at certain age according to the genetic program the individual has for hair loss and baldness. The natural hair restoration is not an easy one but it is possible.
But this genetic program and the consequent baldness do not mean there is nothing that can be done to …

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[7 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Common Overview of a Human Hair

Human skin is having numerous minute and tiny filaments called hair. The dermis of the human skin (second layer of the skin) is having numerous pits from where each hair grows normally. Each hair consists and saturated with a dead protein called keratin. The human head is having about 1, 00,000 numbers of hair and the average number of hair on human body is five million. The complete human skin is having hair follicles except in few places like lips, nails, palms and bottom of the feet.