• Question: can you get mouldy hair?

    Asked by hobodeclan to MarkF, Mark, Michael, Panos, Sarah on 20 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Michael Loughlin

      Michael Loughlin answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      mould are funguses..and they wouldn’t really grow that well on hair wrong type of environemnt.

      Like when you leave jam open ..bacteria don’t grow on the top…but funguses do becuase there is not enough free water for bacteria but plenty for funguses

    • Photo: Panos Soultanas

      Panos Soultanas answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I guess you could, if you were very dirty.

    • Photo: Mark Fogg

      Mark Fogg answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I’m not sure, mines very short. Guess you could if you tied up long wet hair and left it like that for ages.

    • Photo: Mark Travis

      Mark Travis answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Er, not sure about this? Mould is a type of fungus, which likes to live in moist warm places…. so I guess if you had wet hair a lot and didn’t wash it you may be possible!

    • Photo: Sarah Burl

      Sarah Burl answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      Probably if you left it wet for longer enough. In the wet season in the Gambia it is wet and humid all the time so everything goes mouldy really quickly including your clothes if you haven’t worn them for a while but I have never left my hair to see if that goes mouldy.

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