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If hair has a resting phase, why do i have to shave more than 365 times a year?
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Good question: Here is the key: in any area of hair bearing skin there are thousands of hair follicles. However, only a few hundred of those are actively growing at one time. So some of those non-growing hair follicles are in their resting phase.
Answered 3/22/2015
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