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title: "Fascinating Facts You Probably Never Knew About Your Skin"  
description: "A single square inch of skin has about 300 sweat glands. The thickest skin is found on your feet and the thinnest area of skin are your eyelids."  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-12  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1300/fascinating-facts-you-probably-never-knew-about-your-skin  
category: "healthcare"  
tags: ["Health", "healthy skin", "skin nourishment", "skincare", "skin", "golden skin"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Fascinating Facts You Probably Never Knew About Your Skin

![Fascinating Facts You Probably Never Knew About Your Skin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/32db9794-1be6-47c1-af59-1a21834c92d6/images/3c1b1b16-acc7-4fe6-a155-d30210f5b063.jpeg) ![Fascinating Facts You Probably Never Knew About Your Skin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/32db9794-1be6-47c1-af59-1a21834c92d6/images/076c0b28-4d59-40b3-a4fd-7fb49713b877.jpeg) Your skin makes up about 15% of your total body weight. ![Fascinating Facts You Probably Never Knew About Your Skin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/32db9794-1be6-47c1-af59-1a21834c92d6/images/2eb7ac12-8f01-4ad5-988a-0f59bf61fd6e.jpeg) The average adult has nearly 21 square feet of skin that contains over 11 miles of blood vessels. ![Fascinating Facts You Probably Never Knew About Your Skin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/32db9794-1be6-47c1-af59-1a21834c92d6/images/8fed54d1-ed17-4605-a60d-f7f548b51262.jpeg) A single square inch of skin has about 300 sweat glands. ![Fascinating Facts You Probably Never Knew About Your Skin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/32db9794-1be6-47c1-af59-1a21834c92d6/images/99c61699-a9a8-436e-9b40-d2334dad1ec2.jpeg) The thickest skin is found on your feet and the thinnest area of skin are your eyelids. ![Fascinating Facts You Probably Never Knew About Your Skin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/32db9794-1be6-47c1-af59-1a21834c92d6/images/006f6710-d337-4458-8d90-fe7ed89e2b7f.jpeg) Your skin renews itself every 28 days and sheds about 9 pounds of dead skin cells every year ![Fascinating Facts You Probably Never Knew About Your Skin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/32db9794-1be6-47c1-af59-1a21834c92d6/images/8d3cb2bc-17d9-463b-a58c-2b0a00dcaa75.jpeg) Some of the dust in your home may actually be dead skin. ![Fascinating Facts You Probably Never Knew About Your Skin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/32db9794-1be6-47c1-af59-1a21834c92d6/images/3c1b1b16-acc7-4fe6-a155-d30210f5b063.jpeg) There are at least five types of receptors in the skin that respond to pain and to touch.

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