3 Human Hair Facts

The hair is beautiful and well maintained can become one's attractiveness, especially women. But beneath the beauty, the hair turned out to save some unique secret. Anything?

Human hair is a simple structure made of keratin and dead skin cells. Hair serves to prevent heat loss from the head of someone.

But behind its simplicity, the hair save something complex. Launched dariAskMen, Saturday (07/17/2010), the following three unique facts about the hair that has not been known to many people:

1. Hair can clean up oil spills in water

When the Cosco Busan oil spill occurred in 2007 in the Bay of San Francisco, a group of volunteers using environmentally friendly mats made from human hair to clean up the beach. This is not surprising, because the hair can absorb oil and water, and can work as a natural sponge.

2. Amino acids of human hair can be used in soy sauce industry

Find a strand of hair in the food of course can ruin your appetite. But what if your spices or foods made from hair?

Internet Journal of Toxicology reports that Hongshuai Soy Sauce, soy sauce company in China, marketing the product using the latest biotechnology at lower prices. That certainly makes their products become popular.

But a media investigation found that the company does not use amino acids derived from soy or wheat, but the amino acids derived from human hair, collected from the salon and the hair shaving.

3. People with red hair is considered an alien

There is a conspiracy theory which states that people with red hair is an alien-human hybrids. This sounds crazy, but red-haired people do have differences in biological structure.

Doctors must make special preparations to undergo childbirth red-haired woman. This is because the blood of women with red hair is more difficult to freeze, so that bleed longer.

In addition, people with red hair have the least amount of hair, which is about 90,000 pieces, compared with blond or brown hair that reached 140,000 pieces.