Follow Up: Facial Hair
Is nose hair considered to be facial hair? Our noses are on our face, after all.
Credit to @Reject for raising awareness to this concern.
Credit to @Reject for raising awareness to this concern.
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acpguy · C
I read your later posts about ear hair and eyelashes prior to seeing this one. But it was al necessary hair in the past when humans were starting to go from apes to human and some of it is still needed.
Nose hair (if it is not trimmed) has about a MERV 8 rating and so filters out some of the larger particles we might breath in on a windy day and when moist might help filter some biological particles. Eyelashes protected our eyes from dust and such. Ear hair helped protect our ear drums and from getting infections there too. Today we seem to not have as much as our ancestors as most of us lost it as we work indoors and live in cities that are somewhat less dusty and windy versus the out in the country. Maybe that is why we see more infections today as we no longer have the abundance of that type of hair in those locations.
Nose hair (if it is not trimmed) has about a MERV 8 rating and so filters out some of the larger particles we might breath in on a windy day and when moist might help filter some biological particles. Eyelashes protected our eyes from dust and such. Ear hair helped protect our ear drums and from getting infections there too. Today we seem to not have as much as our ancestors as most of us lost it as we work indoors and live in cities that are somewhat less dusty and windy versus the out in the country. Maybe that is why we see more infections today as we no longer have the abundance of that type of hair in those locations.