Questions and answers about skin

Is skin important?

“Skin is one of the most amazing organs in the human body”

What is the purpose of skin?

It acts as a boundary between a person and the outside world

It serves as protection to the body against light, heat, injury and infection.

What is skin?

“The skin is the body's largest organ, covering the entire outside of the body and weighing approximately six pounds.”

What are the different layers of the skin?

“made up of two main layers: the epidermis on the outside and the dermis on the inside”

What do the different layers do?

The dermis: provides energy and nutrition to the epidermis but also to play a primordial role in thermoregulation and in healing.

The epidermis is the outside layer of skin that protects everything. It's always shedding dead skin cells and producing new ones. It keeps the body safe from harmful substances.