Superpowers lift a pile of questions about the day - to - day life of superheroes . After all , Hulk ’s near - unbeatable purplish pants had to be made out of mentally ill molecules to stop rooter from wonder why they were n’t rip up to pieces every metre Hulk changed . Wolverine’shealing factor bring up a similar conundrum- how does the X - Man shave with a bring around factor ?

The most likely reply is that Logan ’s fabled healing factor is n’t tied to his whisker . While Wolverine can typically heal back from the most grievous of accidental injury , grow a really grim gray mullet is ( arguably ) less serious . This is because haircloth get from the bottom of a follicle , from a root made up of protein electric cell . Unlike the cell of the body , hair and fingernail are n’t a living nub , so they probably are n’t straight off affected byhis mutant healing factor . Thus , Wolverine is able to treat himself to a haircut and manicure without any problems .

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Of course , comical record book history does throw up a few obstacle to the scientific account . Wolverine has been immolated or in some cases decompose down to a skeleton , but evenhis healing constituent is so strong he recovers even after obviously fatal injuries- and always returns to his intimate mouton chops in short order . Still , science does have a few explanation for this . hair’s-breadth maturation occurs in several stage , so it ’s potential grievous injuries can restart Wolverine ’s anagen form , where hair ab initio grows , with a retribution . This could explain why Wolverine always return to his wild signature look time and time again .

There are also a few non - scientific explanations for Wolverine ’s highly effective shave habits . First off , being an X - Man means Logan has the perquisite of sophisticated - and occasionally alien - engineering science . Perhaps Beast merely whipped Logan up some sort of shaving solution that dull his healing factor long enough to get a good shave in every day . Then again , it seems unconvincing Logan would want anything capable of dulling his healing factor in excessive consumption every day . It ’s also possible his discrepant hair maturation was merely a result of the experimentation convey by Weapon X and numerous others over the years . That would explain Logan ’s substantially more feral look pre - glutton .

Ultimately , the account is often up to the various originative teams undertaking the Wolverine mythos at any given time . Just how Wolverine succeed in shaving is up to endless hours of lover debate , but one thing ’s for sure - at leastWolverinedoesn’t have to interest about razor burning .

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