20 Amazing facts about Human Skin

Which is the largest organ in human body?

In human body skin is the largest organ and plays a  very important role to detect hot and cold, regulating the body temperature and protecting your muscles, bones and internal organs from the infection of the outside environment and diseases.

     

 

Amazing facts about Human Skin:

1. Human skin is 15 to 16% of the total body weight of an individual
2. Adult  person’s skin covers an area of 1.7 square meters.
3. Human skin contains 64% of water. So when body is we drink less water than human body and skin dehydrated.
4. 300 million skin cells are present in the adult human body. Single square inch of skin has approximately 19 million cells and up to 650 sweat glands.
5. Under one inch of the human skin has 1000 nerve endings.
6. Human skin is amazing because when it is exposed to the sun than it can prepare vitamin D itself.
7. Melanin is pigment  that is responsible for the color of the skin. If your skin produce more melanin then your skin color is darker.
8. Human skin is its thickest on feet and it is 1.4 mm and thinnest on the eyelids 0.2 mm.
9. The skin renews itself after every 28 days. And the most amazing fact about human skin is that it sheds dead cells and the dust in our home is mostly due to accumulation of our dead skin cell.
10. Skin sheds dead cells, about 30,000 to 40,000 cells in every minute continuously.
11. Earth’s atmosphere has billion tons of dust is due to the dead cells.
12. Human skin is shelter home to more than 1,000 species of bacteria.
13. Skin that is damaged may heal itself by forming scar tissue, which is totally different from normal skin tissue because it has no hair and sweat glands.
14. Skin can produce a thick callus if it face repeated friction or pressure.
15. Skin has at least five different types of receptors which respond to pain and touch.
16. In winters goosebumps forms on the skin which actually helps to keep the warm air near skin or it may form due to fear.
17. Human skin act as a thermostat which regulates the body temperature. When outside environment is hot then sweat gland activates and sweating starts to lower the body temperature and when temperature is cold then the shivering starts.
18. Human skin is waterproof and this quality is amazing. If skin starts to absorb all the water then our skin cell will burst.
19. Skin can become more vulnerable to skin disorders and premature wrinkling when dehydration results
20. UV rays from sun are very harmful for the skin and when skin is overexposed to sun the results in skin cancer. Morning rays of the sun are good for skin and skin prepare vitamin D from the sun rays. Morning rays of sun are skin friendly.

So God has made the human skin very amazing and it can bear every temperature but maintains and stabilize the body temperature. Human skin has incredible qualities which cannot denied and a person is amazed when he knows about it.Skin is a interface between you and the external environment.