Why the skin of the bald head shines?

[Bet24]

I mean... is the only part of the human body that shines....

today I was looking at the head of my boss and it looked like a perfect polished cue ball.....

why is that?

 

[Wezz]

probably because it's Oily

 

[beaner]

It's caused by fibrosis of the hair follicle. I'm not fully sure of the concept, but I believe it has something to do with a build up of collagen around the base of the hair follicle. This contributes to the shine on the scalp and usually by the time this happens, its too late to regrow the hair from that follicle, although there are some products that may help with this such as aminexil (in spectral dnc) and copper peptides. I'm sure someone here can jump in and give you a better explanation. (or even a correct one lol)

 

[still_trying]

It's caused by fibrosis of the hair follicle. I'm not fully sure of the concept, but I believe it has something to do with a build up of collagen around the base of the hair follicle. This contributes to the shine on the scalp and usually by the time this happens, its too late to regrow the hair from that follicle, although there are some products that may help with this such as aminexil (in spectral dnc) and copper peptides. I'm sure someone here can jump in and give you a better explanation. (or even a correct one lol)

buump - anyone? bryan?

 

[Armando Jose]

Scar shine more than plain skin but the principal contribution is sebum in my opinion. Bald scalp is not entire a scar and other parts in body also shine a little.

Armando

 

[S Foote.]

I mean... is the only part of the human body that shines....

today I was looking at the head of my boss and it looked like a perfect polished cue ball.....

why is that?

It shines because the skin is stretched smooth by the fluid pressure in the tissue.

You can clean of the sebum, it will still shine.

S Foote.

 

[Apoc]

So if you cut your head you will bleed/leak fluid much more than if you cut your arm since the pressure stretches the skin more? I don't agree. It shines because there is less flesh underneath it and it's more stretched than on the other parts of your body. Why would there be more fluid underneath it?

 

[S Foote.]

So if you cut your head you will bleed/leak fluid much more than if you cut your arm since the pressure stretches the skin more? I don't agree. It shines because there is less flesh underneath it and it's more stretched than on the other parts of your body. Why would there be more fluid underneath it?

It is changes in the local tissue fluid pressures that are important in changing follicle size according to my theory.

http://www.hairsite2.com/library/abst-167.htm

There is an interesting experiment anyone can try, this is the pitting edema test.

This gives a rough guide to the amount of fluid in surface tissues.

You push hard on the skin with a finger tip for around 20 seconds. When you remove the finger, the presence of a "dent" indicates that there is excess fluid in the tissue. The finger pressure has pushed this fluid away.

The depth of the dent and the time it takes to level out again, gives an idea of tissue fluid levels.

You can try this in various areas to get a comparison of local tissue fluid levels.

S Foote.

 

[Apoc]

Why would that be excess fluid? So your theory would then claim that because of excess fluid in scalp skin the minituarization of follicles occurs? Of course aided by DHT and other androgenic factor. If that is true then if you would pinch skin on the back of your head and leave it pinched (by some pliers or similar instrument) the stretching of the skin would eventualy lead to balding?

 

[S Foote.]

Why would that be excess fluid? So your theory would then claim that because of excess fluid in scalp skin the minituarization of follicles occurs? Of course aided by DHT and other androgenic factor. If that is true then if you would pinch skin on the back of your head and leave it pinched (by some pliers or similar instrument) the stretching of the skin would eventualy lead to balding?

My theory proposes that DHT effects lymphatic fluid drainage, and the changes this then has on the local tissue pressure effects follicle growth through contact inhibition.

If you read through my paper, you should get a better idea of the factors involved.

S Foote.