Every hair color has its biases. For example, blondes are said to be stupid and women with red hair are temperamental. Whether the latter is the case, we dare not say. But do you naturally have red hair? Then there are certain advantages. Even in terms of your health! Do you think you can outsmart science and dye your hair in the trend color of 2023? Unfortunately that makes little sense. The benefits only apply to natural redheads.
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The benefits of red hair
1/ People with red hair produce their own vitamin D
Redheads have the ability to produce vitamin D on their own. Normally we get this vitamin from sunlight, but because redheads they absorb the vitamin less well, they produce it themselves. Ideal in winter when the sun doesn’t shine for a while.
2/ Red-haired women can handle pain better
From a study by McGill University shows that red-haired women can tolerate 25% more pain than other women. This is because in the skin cells of redheads, a certain receptor does not work. This upsets the balance between sensitivity and tolerance to pain.
3/ Red hair turns gray less quickly
With red hair you have less chance of gray hair. Red pigment would fade less quickly than other colors. Fortunately, because because the red pigment in your hair is so strong, hair dye takes less well. But who needs hair dye when your natural color is so beautiful?
4/ Redheads have thicker hair
As a redhead you have less hair than others, but it is thicker. On average you have if redhead about 90 thousand hairs per head. That is a lot less than blond people (110,000 hairs) and one and a half times less than brown-haired people (who have 140,000 hairs). Thanks to the thick bristles you can still have a big bunch – and it is extra strong.
