Why does your skin get wrinkled after being in water for long periods of time?
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Your skin is made up of two layers. The outer layer is called the epidermis and the lower level is the dermis. The outer layer (epidermis) produces an oily substance called sebum. You can see this substance when you touch a window or mirror and your "oily" fingerprint is left there.\n\nOne job sebum does is it keeps water out of your skin—a job that it does very well. However, after long periods of time in a swimming pool, shower, or bathtub, much of the sebum is washed off and your outer layer of skin starts to absorb water. As it absorbs water it swells, but since the epidermis is "tied" down to your dermis in certain spots, it expands more where it is not "tied" down and this causes your skin to wrinkle.\n\nThe difference between your skin and a raisin is that raisins wrinkle because they shrink, but your skin wrinkles because it is getting bigger.
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You need to use a moisturizer.  What is happening is that your glands are working over time because after you wash your face it isn't moist enough.  sounds backwards but try it.
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Because your skin is oily, and you are taking a bath in oil.
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If you stay in the water TOO LONG then your skin is obviously going to because you've deepend the D.N.A lines\nToo much science stuff to understand? Ask your local neighbour!
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The skin is waterproof so we do not absorb water.  We sweat when we come out of a hot bath to cool down.
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I have read, but can not verify, that exercising the facial muscles actually causes more wrinkles by stretching the skin overlaying the muscles.
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due to dry skin and wearing heavier clothes compounded by increased time spent inside heated areas you skin tends to get dry\ndrink plenty of water to keep hydrated and apply somthing simple like johnson baby lotion\nsafe inexpensive and if it good for a baby how could it be bad for you\nyou could also use alveeno  - corn starch  - oatmeal  bath powders iin your bath water
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keep putting water on your face
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Your hands and the bottoms of your feet are more "water permeable" than the rest of your body because they have more sweat glands in them but no oil glands.  So when you expose them to water, and even more so with hot water, for extended periods, the water will begin to go back in just as it is able to come out. When the skin soaks up enough water, which sometimes isn't very much, it begins to expand and prune.\nWeather along with humidity and also one's age has a lot to do with how quickly the skin becomes waterlogged.
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Ok obviously this is for a class - so why don't you consult your text book.  The answer will be in there.  Think about it logically too - your skin, in an of itself is a natual barrier.  It is made of tightly packed cells that are keratinized to prevent too much water getting in.  Get the drift...??
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You will progressively get darker and darker as your skin is damaged more and more by sunburn. Use sunscreen - the sun will make you wrinkled as you grow older and will make your skin like shoe leather eventually if you keep damaging it.
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Basically you dehydrated your cells in your skin. The h20 your skin has decreased too rapidly. That water helps to keep you from buring. Place two metal objects in the sun and then add water ontop of one. within a few minutes the dry one will become much hotter. When the water evaporates off the other one it too will becomoe the same temp. Your skin is the same way if you stay in the sun for too long you dried out your skin. The itch is from the sensor receptors getting fried as well as from pealing. The pealing occurs because of of the damaged dryed out skin and the new skin is forming underneath.
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Your skin has a limited capacity for keeping water out. \nAfter a long bath, your skin will absorb some water, and will tend to expand its surface. However, due to the lack of space for expansion, it gets wrinckled.
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Drink a lot of water that's what causes this!!
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could be dry skin. Put on lotion, lots of it. it used to happen to me a lot, till i lotioned up everyday! good luck
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You don't shrivel, but your skin gets baggy. It has absorbed water. Osmosic rate will be greater in warmer water because diffusion rates will increase (Graham's Law).
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You don't, it just doesn't evaporate like it would in non-humid conditions.  Its all about the movement of water, and if the air is already very dense with water particles (ie. humidity) then the liquid on your skin is less inclined to enter the air.  But in very dry conditions, the water on your skin evaporates quickly and this cools you down.