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
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