1. Your skin loses about 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells from the surface almost every minute.
2. Your skin sheds a layer of these dead cells every 24 hours and renews itself about every 28 days.
3. The average person will lose around 48 kilograms of skin by age 70.
4. An adult has about two square metres of skin - about the size of a blanket.
5. Skin is thickest on the soles of the feet (3mm) and thinnest on the eyelids (1mm).
6. Skin makes up about 16% of our total body weight.
7. 70 % of the dust in your home is dead human skin (ew!). There can be over a million dust mites on your mattress and pillow, feasting on the dead skin cells that fell off you last night!
8. The skin contains 45 miles of nerves.
9. Every square inch of skin on the human body has about 32 million bacteria on it, but fortunately, the vast majority of them are harmless.
10. Goose bumps are actually little pimples that help retain a layer of warm air over our body.