"perhaps, shaving oneself completely bald, head to toe, nook and cranny, and repeating periodically"
Yup. When I said "the obvious experiment", what I had in mind was pretty much what you described here and jmax315 refined: shave bare, wait a day, shave again in an environment that allows for careful capture of all the removed hair, figure out how to separate the hair from skin flakes and shaving aids (water, shave gel, etc.), weigh the results, repeat.
I hadn't thought about effects of shaving on hair growth rate, but with one additional caveat, I see that jmax315 addressed that.
A related question that had occurred to me a day or two earlier would be marginally easier to answer, since one wouldn't have to spend quite as much time shaving or endure the "no eyebrows" look while waiting for stuff to grow back: which removes more skin during shaving, a safety razor, a straightrazoer, or an electric razor? (Not counting nicks, just scraping effects.) What I suspect will be "the hard part" is the same: isolating the substance of interest -- skin here or hair above -- from everything else that accumulates in the sample collection area.
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Yup. When I said "the obvious experiment", what I had in mind was pretty much what you described here and
I hadn't thought about effects of shaving on hair growth rate, but with one additional caveat, I see that
A related question that had occurred to me a day or two earlier would be marginally easier to answer, since one wouldn't have to spend quite as much time shaving or endure the "no eyebrows" look while waiting for stuff to grow back: which removes more skin during shaving, a safety razor, a straightrazoer, or an electric razor? (Not counting nicks, just scraping effects.) What I suspect will be "the hard part" is the same: isolating the substance of interest -- skin here or hair above -- from everything else that accumulates in the sample collection area.