Some of people were scared of their skins after bathing.
Why does the skin on the extremities wrinkle after a bath? and why only extremities? Despite it's appearance , your skin isn't shrivelling after you bath. Actually , it is expanding. The skin on the fingers, palms , toes and soles wrinkles only after it is saturated with water ( a prolonged stay underwater in the swimming pool will create the same effect). The stratum corneum - the thick , dead layer of the skin that protect us from the environment and that makes the skin on our hands and feet and thicker than that on our stomachs or face- expending when it soaks up water. This expansion causes the wrinkling effect.
So why doesn't the skin on other parts of the body also wrinkle when saturated? Actually , it does, but there is more room for the moisture to be absorbed in these less densely packed areas before it will show. When I went for National Service Training and i showed it to the doctor and he said that all trainers whose feet are submerged in soggy boots for a long period will exhibit wrinkling all over the covered area. This is cause by the newly developed skin and dead skin will removed by itself.
So why doesn't the skin on other parts of the body also wrinkle when saturated? Actually , it does, but there is more room for the moisture to be absorbed in these less densely packed areas before it will show. When I went for National Service Training and i showed it to the doctor and he said that all trainers whose feet are submerged in soggy boots for a long period will exhibit wrinkling all over the covered area. This is cause by the newly developed skin and dead skin will removed by itself.
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