We bang it, bruise it, pierce it and tattoo it, we bathe it, paint it, moisturize it bake it in tanning beds or in the sun to brown it, and yet with all this abuse this wonderful creation that most of us will spend an entire lifetime thinking about, does exactly what it was designed to do. Protect that which makes us - us.
* Adults have more than 20 square feet of skin (size of a blanket)
* You are likely to shed some 40 lbs in a life time.
* Your skin is the largest organ of your body.
* Every minute 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells fall from your body
* In about one month your body has made a whole new layer of cells.
* On average children three times more exposure to the sun than adults.
* Your skin is about 2mm thick at birth and grows to about 4mm by adulthood
* The skin of the average adult weighs about 7 pounds and has appx. 300 million cells.
* Dead skin cells make up about 90% of household dust.
