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Your skin carries an oil on its surface that keeps it from wrinkling. The oil can replenish. However, spending too much time in the water can wash the oil away and the skin is susceptible to being pruned.
...However, that is not supported by the evidence. People who's nerves are severed do not experience "pruning" in water, disproving popular myth that water absorption is a factor.
It appears to be an involuntary "choice" by the body in reaction to water. Perhaps to improve "grip" during wet conditions.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 13y agoNo, it really has nothing to do with the muscles. Water probably initiates the wrinkling process by altering epidermal electrolyte homeostasis as it diffuses into the porous skin of the hands and soles via their many sweat ducts. Altered epidermal electrolyte homeostasis would lead to a change in membrane stability of the surrounding dense network of nerve fibers and trigger increased vasomotor firing with subsequent vasoconstriction. Vasoconstriction, through loss of volume, leads to negative digit pulp pressure resulting in a downward pull on the overlying skin, which wrinkles as it is distorted. (Wikipedia)
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