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Water makes your skin pruny after a long period of submersion. This is due to osmosis (the passing of water through a membrane)). Water travels to the side of the membrane with the most solute, trying to reach equilibrium. The water outside of your body has more solutes than within your body, causing water to leave your body and into the water around you. This lessened amount of water can make your skin "prune".

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Why do your fingers stay pruny?

When your fingers are submerged in water for a prolonged period, the outer layer of skin absorbs water and swells. The wrinkles or prune-like appearance is the skin adapting to the increased water content and enhancing grip in wet conditions. They return to normal once they are dry.


Does water loss have a function on the skin?

make your skin dry


What happens if you shower for about an hour?

You waste a lot of water and your fingers get pruny. Nothing bad will happen to you, it's just not so good for the environment. Hope this helped! :)


How do you keep your skin healthy by drinking water?

Drinking water automatically leaves your skin glowing and make the skin healthy..


Do water pills affect the skin?

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How does this flow of heat make your skin feel when water is on your skin?

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Why do your hands become pruny in the bathtub?

Your skin is coated with an oily/waxy substance called sebum (sebum is secreted through hair follicles from the sebaceous gland) that acts as a defense from water. After spending a lot of time in water, the sebum washes off, leaving the epidermis (top layer of cells that make up the skin) exposed to the water. Cells have a lower concentration of water due to the fact that they contain other things, such as organelles, which makes it the hypertonic solution when placed in pool water because the water in the pool has a higher concentration of water, which makes it the hypotonic solution. Osmosis (the diffusion of water across a semi-permeable membrane) always occurs from areas of high concentration to low concentration, and hypotinc to hypertonic, so the water from the pool diffuses into the cells of your skin, pluming them up and giving them a more wrinkly appearance.


Does water make skin glow?

no but it makes your skin more nurited and hydrated x


What happens to your skin to make it wrinkled?

It is absorbing water.


How does water make sunburn worse?

When water evaporates from the skin, it can remove moisture and make the skin more prone to damage from the sun's UV rays, which can worsen sunburn.


Does water make your skin oily?

No. Genetics, stress, & your environment do.