Is Melanin produced in the cuticle of the hair True Or False
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She has a lot of melanin in her hair. Melanin is the pigment that gives human hair, eyes, and skin their color. Cells called melanocytes produce melanin.
I am pretty sure you are thinking of melanin. Melanin gives basically everything on our body colour including our hair, skin, iris etc.
Melanin is the source that determines the pigment in your hair. Usually, melanin is a hereditary trait. For example, if both of your parents have darker hair, then you were also probably born with darker hair as well.
The body produce a substance called melanin which makes your skin and hair darker. As your body ages, the amount of melanin in the hair decreases and the hair gets lighter.
Melanocytes produce melanin.
Grey hair usually denotes a lack of the pigment melanin in the hair. As we age, the body often begins to produce less and less melanin. Some grey hair is caused by thyroid problems.
Melatonin produces melanin. Melanin is what creates skin pigment (and also eye color, hair color).
It gets its colour from melanin, a natural pigment (colour) we produce in our bodies.
The role of the melanin in the hair makes it grow white as it reduces in number. Melanin gives hair it's colour.
The colour in our hair comes from a pigment called melanin. In a very basic run down of how it works, as hair is being formed melanin is injected into cells containing kerotin, a protein in our hair. As we age this process slows and eventually stops, causing our hair to gray and eventually whiten.
Cuticle scales are formed from dead cells on the hair cuticle, which is the outer layer of the hair shaft. The scales give the hair shaft strength.