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The skin will wrinkle because 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. One 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. The difference between your skin and a raisin is that raisins wrinkle because they shrink, but your skin wrinkles because it is getting bigger. Once you get out of the pool or tub, the water that your skin absorbed will evaporate, your skin will return to its usual size, and you body will produce more sebum. Your fingers and toes will be back to normal in no time.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoyes, water flows into the skin cells causing the skin to plump. The uneven distribution of the water causes the wrinkled effect.
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Wrinkling of the skin is caused by loss of the what of the skin?
Collagen
Example of Plasma membrane found inside the body?
Our skin has plasma membrane M
Why does skin wrinkle and what factors accelerate the wrinkling process?
Skin wrinkles due to sun damage and tissue damage. The wrinkling process accelerates when an individual gets too much unprotected sun exposure.
Permanent wrinkling of skin is usually due to changes caused by excessive exposure to?
Sunlight
What causes fingers to look wrinkled after soaking in water?
water enters the cells in the skin
What are some examples of osmosis?
1.Wrinkling skin in water 2. plants moving water to stem 3.a substance moving through a barrier
Why do your hands and feet peel and wrinkle when you get out of water?
The outermost layer of the skin swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin underneath, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. However, new research is investigating the role of digital vasoconstriction (narrowing of blood vessels) of water immersion wrinkling of the skin.
Why does the fingers shrink after washing?
The outermost layer of the skin swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin underneath, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. However, new research is investigating the role of digital vasoconstriction (narrowing of blood vessels) of water immersion wrinkling of the skin.
Wrinkling of the skin is caused by loss of the what of the skin?
Collagen
Wrinkling of the skin is due to loss of?
the skin's elasticity
Why does your skin get wrinkly after swimming?
To, much water on you skin will wrinckle up your skin that when osmosis kicks in
Wrinkling of the skin is due to loss of the?
Collagen
Wrinkling of the skin is due to the loss of?
Collagen.
What cause fingers to look wrinkled after soaking water?
It used to be thought that this was a result of water entering skin cells because the water outside the skin is hypotonic compared to skin cells. However, this is NOT the case. The change in the skin (wrinkling) is now thought to be an involuntary reaction by the body's autonomic nervous system — the same system that controls breathing, & heart rate. The wrinkling is believed to be caused by blood vessels constricting below the skin.
How do you avoid skin wrinkling because of bathing in hard bore-well water?
Put the water through a softener. - Hard water is bad for your pipes and valves.
Does water go though your skin?
water doesn't really go in it, it just gets absorbed. Like for example strawberries if you leave one in a cup of water, osmosis will occur and therefore your stawberries will taste watery
Where is the wrinkling of the skin occurs?
a decrease in the elastic fiber network of the dermis
