Skin Facts

If you eat lots of carrots, you'll start to turn orange.

For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.

Regular sexual activity can improve skin appearance by boosting blood circulation and triggering the release of hormones like estrogen, which helps maintain collagen production.

Dead skin cells make up about 20-50% of the dust in your home, not most of it as commonly believed.

Most birthmarks gradually fade away on their own, with studies showing 50-70% become significantly lighter or disappear completely by adulthood.

Long-term smokers develop significantly more facial wrinkles than non-smokers, with studies showing they're up to three times more likely to have prominent wrinkling, particularly around the eyes and mouth.

Around 62% of people admit to popping their pimples, despite dermatologists warning it can cause scarring and infections.

What you find when you shave the striped fur off of a tiger? Striped skin.

There is a disease called ichthyosis that turns the skin scaly like a fish.

The average person's skin weighs about three times as much as their brain.

If your skin is laid flat it will cover an area of about 20 square feet.

You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.

Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne.

Perspiration is odorless; it is the bacteria on the skin that creates body odor.

Scientists found that 15% of matter in the air at subway stations is human skin, from areas such as heels, belly buttons, armpits, and rear ends.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Scientists have developed spray-on skin technology that dramatically accelerates wound healing for severe burns. The spray deposits a patient's own skin cells directly onto wounds, reducing healing time from weeks to days. In clinical trials, second-degree burns healed in about 4-5 days compared to several weeks with traditional skin grafts.

‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin