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Under your skin
Deep under your skin, beneath the dermis, is a layer of fat. It acts ...
In a cold sweat
Sweat is a salty liquid made in curly glands deep in the dermis. It ...
Skin-deep colour
The colour of your skin depends on how much of the brown-black ...
DID YOU KNOW?
Your skin is covered in a film of oil, called sebum. It is made by ...
and bruises
A hard knock may break some of the blood vessels under your skin. The ...
Cuts …
If your skin is damaged, it quickly repairs itself. First, your blood ...
Fingerprint giveaway
The skin on your fingertips is covered in a pattern of tiny ridges. ...
Amazing But True
Household dust is mostly made up of dead skin cells. You lose ...
Goose pimples
Goose pimples are one of your body's ways of trying to warm you up ...
A new skin
Your skin has two layers the epidermis and the dermis. The surface of ...
Thick skinned?
In most places, your skin is about 2mm (0.07in) thick. On your ...