15  skin Facts might didn’t know

So, skin care, skin types etc, but did you know these funny skin facts ?…..

1.It’s your body’s largest organ, and about 60% of what you put on it will go inside your body.

So when you think about Body Lotion, which will cover large part of your skin, think natural, healthy lotion

2.  An average adult’s skin spans 21 square feet, weighs nine pounds, and contains more than 11 miles of blood vessels.

3.  The skin releases as much as three gallons of sweat a day in hot weather. The areas that don’t sweat are the nail bed, the margins of the lips, the tip of the penis, and the eardrums.

4.  Ooh, that smell: Body odor comes from a second kind of sweat—a fatty secretion produced by the apocrine sweat glands, found mostly around the armpits, genitals, and anus. The odor is caused by bacteria on the skin eating and digesting those fatty compounds. (read here about the risk hidden in your deodorant).

5.Breasts are a modified form of the apocrine sweat gland.

6.Fetuses don’t develop fingerprints until three months’ gestation.

7.  Without a trace: Some people never develop fingerprints at all. Two rare genetic defects, known as Naegeli syndrome and dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis, can leave carriers without any identifying ridges on their skin.

8.  Fingerprints increase friction and help grip objects. New World monkeys have similar prints on the undersides of their tails, the better to grasp as they swing from branch to branch.

9.Blowin’ in the wind: Globally, dead skin accounts for about a billion tons of dust in the atmosphere. Your skin sheds 50,000 cells every minute. That’s why using scrub to remove dead skin cells is a must!

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10.There are at least five types of receptors in the skin that respond to pain and to touch. One experiment revealed that Meissner corpuscles—touch receptors that are concentrated in the fingertips and palms, lips and tongue, nipples, penis and clitoris—respond to a pressure of just 20 milligrams, the weight of a fly.

11.In blind people, the brain’s visual cortex is rewired to respond to stimuli received through touch and hearing, so they literally “see” the world by touch and sound.

12.  “In the buff” became synonymous for “nude” in 17th-century England. The term derives from soldiers’ leather tunics, or “buffs,” whose light brown color apparently resembled an Anglo-Saxon backside.

13.White skin appeared just 20,000 to 50,000 years ago, as dark-skinned humans migrated to colder climes and lost much of their melanin pigment.

14.I see very, very white people: Albinos are often cast as movie villains, as seen in The Da Vinci Code, Die Another Day, The Matrix Reloaded, and—inexplicably—the 2001 flick Josie and the Pussycats. Robert Lima of Penn State suggests that people associate pale-skinned albinos with vampires and other mythical creatures of the night.

15.More than 2,000 people have radio frequency identification chips, or RFID tags, inserted under their skin. The tags can provide access to medical information, log on to computers, or unlock car doors.

 

So when you know these facts about your skin,  the largest organ in your body and that everything you put on your skin go inside your body, you know that you want only natural and healthy products to go outside and inside your body!