HERE'S THE SKINNY

The average adult human has a skin surface area between 16.1 and 21.5 square feet.  For those of you who are numerically challenged, that is an area approximately 4' x 4' up to 4'6" x 4'6" square.  (Personally, my skin is growing closer to the larger end of that scale every day.)   

Now, 4' x 4' is the same as about 2,300 square inches.  Have you got that number?  Two thousand and three hundred square inches - or more.  That's how much skin you have.  

Here's the scoop.  In each of those square inches (1" x 1" square), there are approximately 60,000 melanocytes (those are the pigment cells which give your skin it's color) and 1,000 nerve endings and 650 sweat glands and 20 blood vessels.   There is a whole lot going on in your skin and it's various layers.  

Take care of your skin.  Skin is important.  Where would you be without it?   I'd say, you'd be a sloppy mess.

The basic facts of this entry came off the wall of my dermatologist - it must be true.