There exist a common myth that “shaving your scalp makes your hair grow back thicker. We have often heard from our mothers and grand mothers that shaving the scalp of an infant over and over again stimulate the growth process. To find out how true these myths are let us understand the growth phenomenon of our hairs. The hairs we see on our head are dead proteins. Most of the growth phenomenon takes place inside the hair follicle, which is below the skin. Cutting or shaving the hair will not make any difference to the thickness and texture of the hair because we are cutting the dead part of it, which has grown out past the scalp. Factors like thickness and growth rate are only determined by genetics. Yes but there is a possibility that the newly grown hair would be undamaged and unspoiled. This is because they have not been exposed to the elements such as chemicals; blow drying, or other hair treatments.

Therefore Shaving neither promotes nor prevents the growth of the hair. The old wives tale that the hair grows back thicker when shaved is completely false.