Seven more skin facts you didn’t know
April 10th, 2008
Fact One: Seventy percent of birthmarks gradually fade away.
Fact Two: When born skin is 1mm thick and as an adult it is 2mm thick.
Fact Three: Dimples form because of the skin’s attachment to muscles.
Fact Four: Because it’s the skin’s job to protect the body from bacteria and infection, a sun burn increases your chance of illness.
Fact Five: Skin and hair does not grow after death.
Fact Six: There are 20,000 pores on the average woman’s face.
Fact Seven: The life span of a skin cell is 75 days from the time it develops in the epidermis to the time it sloughs off as dead skin.
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