Interesting Facts On Skin...

* In one day a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes.
* Every square inch of the human body has about 19 million skin cells.
* Approximately 25% of all scald burns to children are from hot tap water and is associated with mFun Facts & In the News - The Anatomy Wikiore deaths than any other liquid.
* 41% of women apply skin moisturizer at least three times a day (see ya later alligator!)
* Skin is thickest on palms and soles and thinnest on lips and eyelids.
* There are as many hairs per sq. in. on the human body as a chimpanzee. You don't see all of them because most are too fine and light to be noticed. Fun Facts & In the News - The Anatomy Wiki

* Dead skin cells make up about 90% of household dust.
* Freckles disappear after the age of 40-45.
* The major cause of skin aging is ultraviolet light (from the sun).
* Approximately 17 million people in the U.S. have acne.
* An estimated 1 out of every 10 Americans have at least one atypical mole.
* Fingers and toes wrinkle in the bathtub due to the outermost layer of the skin swelling when

it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin underneath, so it compensates for the theFun Facts & In the News - The Anatomy Wiki increased area by wrinkling.

* An average adult has 21 sq. ft. of skin, which weighs 7 pds., and has approximately 300 million skin cells.

* A human being loses an average of 50 to 150 strands of hair a day.
* An average human scalp has well over 200 thousand hairsFun Facts & In the News - The Anatomy Wiki.
* Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

* Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
* A fetus aquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
* A fingernail or toenail takes about six months to grow from base to tip.
* The PH balance of the skin is 3.5-5.5 - slighty acidic.
* The body sheds a layer of dead skin cells every 24 hours and renews itself about every 28 days.
* Humans shed about 600 thousand particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds per year.

By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost about 105 pounds of skin.