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What is water weight?

What weight of water can hair hold? How much water can stick to hair per unit of weight, say, a kilogram of hair?

  • Say I dipped a real hair wig weighing one kilogram into a bucket of water, how much would the water stuck to it weigh after?

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    According to Loreal and http://naturallycurly.com, the porosity of hair depends upon its health. Normal hair absorbs an average of 31.1% of water by weight. This would mean that one kilo of hair would absorb 311 grams of water (or 1311 grams, the wording is unclear). Damaged hair can absorb 55% of water, 550 grams (or 1550).

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Something like hair will have a highly variable ability to soak up water. Everyone's scalp has a different density of hair follicles and thickness of individual hairs leading to wildly different surface areas, and then as Sage mentions, porosity of the hairs themselves can be highly variable. I would say: test it out yourself! A wig will probably not be porous in the way real hair is, but could have a similar surface area.

John Schultz

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