• Question: If you accidently set your hair on fire with a bunsen burner how long does it take to grow back?

    Asked by ss123 to Ben, James, Jen, Michael, Susanna on 8 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Jen Todd Jones

      Jen Todd Jones answered on 8 Mar 2013:

      I couldn’t answer this fully but from my own experience of burning my own eyelashes off (similar freak cooker-top accident – don’t laugh! 😉 ) everybody’s hair grows at different rates, it’s another one of those quirky things decided by our biological makeup. Your hair and nails grow back at different rates, but I think hair generally is between a half inch and an inch a month.

    • Photo: Michael Craig

      Michael Craig answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      I’ve not set my hair on fire but I have accidentally lost some of my eyebrows to a bunsen burner in school. Not a very nice experience! They took a couple of months to grow back properly.

    • Photo: Susanna Martin

      Susanna Martin answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      I think it would depend if you damaged the skin where the hair grows from, or if you just singed the end off. either way I wouldn’t recommend it, the smell of burning hair isn’t very nice!

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