Your most intimate clothing: your SKIN!

Skincare. It's something everyone has at least thought about. We're getting older by the second, which means our skin is, too. And, although sometimes fleetingly, we think about skincare, but sometimes we just don't know where to start. There are tons upon tons of skincare products out there that can do this, and they can do that, and they range from as little as $10 for a 10oz tube all the way up to above $100 for a 1oz tube.

We aren't here to tell you which product you should use for your needs. We are here to tell you some interesting facts that we have learned about our skin. You should know about them, too, right? I mean, it is your skin that you have to live with for the rest of your life!

• The average human being has 21 square feet of skin and about 300 million skin cells. That's a lot of skin! 
• Your skin is the largest organ on the body. Also, it weighs somewhere between 12-15% of your body weight.
• Your skin is always renewing itself from the bottom up and take 52-77 days to shed it's cells.
• Humas shed about 600 thousand particles of skin every hour (that's about 1.5 pounds a year!). By 70 years, you will have lost about 105 pounds of skin. (That's exciting news for us, but also oddly disturbing!)
• There are 2 different types of skin: Glaborous skin (the type that doesn't grow hair, like the soles of your feet and the palms of your hands) and Hairy Skin.
• There are over 40 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being. (Wow, just imagine how quickly those nerves work!)
• 70% of the dust your find in your home is from dead skin. In fact, dead skin accounts for about a BILLION tons of dust in the atmosphere!
• Each half inch of skin has approximately 3.2 feet of tiny blood vessels, 10 hairs, 100 sweat glands and 15 sebaceous glands.
• Goose bumps are actually little pimples that help retain a layer of warm air over our body.

Skin facts were found at Good Skin Health.