H'kin

Skin Fun Facts.

Your skin is your largest organ and plays a vital role in detecting hot and cold, regulating your body temperature and protecting your muscles, bones and internal organs from outside infection and disease. But that’s just for starters. There is so much more to your skin than you might think. Here are some of the most interesting facts about your skin:
The average person’s skin covers an area of 2 square meters.
Skin accounts for about 15% of your body weight.
The average adult has approximately 21 square feet of skin, which weighs 9 lbs and contains more than 11 miles of blood vessels.
The average person has about 300 million skin cells. A single square inch of skin has about 19 million cells and up to 300 sweat glands.
Your skin is its thickest on your feet (1.4mm) and thinnest on your eyelids (0.2mm).
The skin renews itself every 28 days.
Your skin constantly sheds dead cells, about 30,000 to 40,000 cells every minute! That’s nearly 9 lbs. per year!
Some sources estimate that more than half of the dust in your home is actually dead skin.
Dead skin comprises about a billion tons of dust in the earth’s atmosphere.
Your skin is home to more than 1,000 species of bacteria.
Skin that is severely damaged may try to heal itself by forming scar tissue, which is different from normal skin tissue because it lacks hair and sweat glands.
Skin can form additional thickness and toughness — a callus — if exposed to repeated friction or pressure.
Some of the nerves in your skin are connected to muscles instead of the brain, sending signals (through the spinal cord) to react more quickly to heat, pain, etc.
Your skin has at least five different types of receptors that respond to pain and touch.
Changes in your skin can sometimes signal changes in your overall health.
These fun facts are just some of the thousands of important aspects of your skin and its health. Forefront Dermatology’s skin care experts have all of the information you need, including how to best care for the health and beauty of your skin, and the advanced expertise and experience to help you protect it throughout your lifetime.

Weird and Wacky Beauty Facts
We recently got our hands on 100,000 Years of Beauty, a collection of five books commissioned by L'Oréal in honor of its 100th birthday, and unlike your high school history textbooks, these reads won't put you to sleep. Each volume is loaded with fascinating beauty facts that had us saying, "They did what?!" (Now we can't help but wonder what people will think of spray-tanning, teeth-bleaching, and Brazilian bikini waxing in another 100,000 years.) Here are some of the crazy things people have done in the name of beauty throughout history, plus some other Jeopardy-worthy tidbits.

More Fascinating Facts About Beauty
Society places a premium on appearance.
But what makes someone "good-looking" and why are these physically ideal specimens so often the subject of envy?

The idea of beauty is always shifting. Today, it’s more inclusive than ever.
Whom we deem ‘beautiful’ is a reflection of our values. Now, a more expansive world has arrived where ‘we are all beautiful.’

Quotes about Beauty – Remarkable Words of Wisdom
Beauty has many facets. For example, both Edgar Allan Poe and Karl Lagerfeld said that there is no beauty without “strangeness”.
What do you think ‘beauty’ is? Is there such a thing as ‘universal beauty’?
Our collection of wise and noteworthy quotes and proverbs about beauty shows a picture how the attempts to define beauty developed over centuries.
Read what philosophers, writers, painters, naturalists and physicists said about beauty. Our collection of great words is sorted chronologically by birth year of the unforgettable originator. Enjoy!

About Beauty To Boost Your Self-Esteem
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The modern world has changed our relationship to many things. But one such thing that has become incredibly distorted is the modern idea of beauty.
Throughout history, beauty has been seen as something that has applied to all forms of art and literature, but the modern understanding of beauty is often limited to the physical.
Stemming from pop culture and modern media, the physical expectations for beauty have become increasingly skewed and one-dimensional.
This is a problem because everyone wants to feel they are beautiful in some way, and when the standards become so difficult to keep up with, a large percentage

Impressive Ways Vitamin C Benefits Your Body.
Vitamin C is an essential vitamin, meaning your body can’t produce it. Yet, it has many roles and has been linked to impressive health benefits.
It’s water-soluble and found in many fruits and vegetables, including oranges, strawberries, kiwi fruit, bell peppers, broccoli, kale, and spinach.
The recommended daily intake for vitamin C is 75 mg for women and 90 mg for men (1Trusted Source).
While it’s commonly advised to get your vitamin C intake from foods, many people turn to supplements to meet their needs.
Here are 7 scientifically-proven benefits of taking a vitamin C supplement.