• Question: why if u wax ur leg hair they grow slower than shaving them?

    Asked by cheese2000 to David, Jonathan, Ou, Pete, Sam on 24 May 2012.
    • Photo: Pete Etchells

      Pete Etchells answered on 24 May 2012:

      Good question! When you wax leg hair, not only does it remove the hair, it removes the hair root too. When you shave, you’re actually leaving some of the hair still there. It takes much longer for the hair root to regrow than for an already existing hair to grow larger, which is why hair seems to grow more slowly after you’ve waxed.

      I guess it’s kind of like the difference between pruning the tips of branches off a tree, and cutting them all the way back to the trunk

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