Facts about your skin
Our skin is our bodies protection from the environment
around us so it’s worth taking care of.
Did you know:
- Skin is the largest organ in the human body making up 16% of our body weight
- Skin breathes, filters, protects, warns, regulates, absorbs and expresses itself – the only organ we can see, touch and actively rebalance
- Up to 70% of what we put on our skin is absorbed into our blood stream
- By the age of 30 we already have an average of 91 foreign chemicals in our body, many of which are often triggers for
some of the illnesses that affect us later in life - Our skin varies in thickness from 1mm on the eyelids to 3mm on the palms of our hands
- A baby’s skin is 3 times thinner than adults and therefore less resistant to irritants and bacteria
- An average of 40kg of skin is shed during a lifetime
- Alcohol based hand sanitisers strip the skin of essential oils which act as a natural protective barrier against bacterial infection. Extensive use actually increases the skin’s susceptibility to infection
