Interesting Facts about Skin

Have you ever thought about your skin? Do you know that your skin keep interesting and wonderful facts that perhaps you do not understand before?

These are what you must know about it:

• Every 30 seconds, one spends 500 thousands cells for natural regeneration pf skin cells.
• Skin is our main sensor organ which consists of 32500 cells and 32 nerves.
• Environmental influence causes the level of skin humidity decrease. It is needed 186000 calories a day for environment to absorb skin humidity.
• Skin needs every 8 hours to recover its lost humidity.
• There is 90% water beneath the skin surface that enable to give it nutrition and moisten the skin overall. Whereas there is only 10 - 20 % water at the outer surface of the skin.
• The skin is very flexible to adjust human growth and movement. However, it is a very powerful protector.
• If the condition of the skin dries and its water content is lower than 10% at the outer surface, the skin has a potent to get infection.
• The skin regulates our body temperature by heating and cooling according to our needs.
• To have a healthy skin, the skin must be kept its humidity.
  

Source: Dr.Titi Lestari Sugito, Sp.KK
The General chief of PERDOSKI (Association of Skin and Venereal Disease Doctors)