Facts About the Skin You May Not Know

By DermacenterMD Staff

December 12, 2016

Category: General Skin Care

Tags: skin dermatology skin facts skin health

Check out these intersting and suprising facts about the skin that you may not have known!

The skin is the bodies largest organ.
The average person sheds approximately 1.5lbs of dead skin cells each year.
An average adult has more than 20 square feet of skin.
A square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cells and up to 300 sweat glands.
The eyelids are the thinnest area of skin on the human body.
Contrary to some beliefs, dust is not made up mostly of dead skin cells. There are many sources of dust pollutants floating around the air.
Your skin sheds 50,000 cells every minute.
There are at least five types of receptors in the skin that respond to pain and touch.
Globally, dead skin accounts for about a billion tons of dust in the atmosphere.
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.

Source: http://www.amazingandweird.com/facts/30-interesting-and-fun-facts-about-human-skin/

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