Why Do Your Hands Get Wrinkly In Water?

INTRODUCTION

                                 AH! Nice and refreshing after you take a long bath. Then all of a sudden you start to freak out! Your fingers are wrinkly and look ugly. Well don't worry it happens to everybody when they put their hand in the water for to long. One of life's biggest questions is Why does are fingers wrinkle in water? Today we will talk about why this unusual thing happens. What causes this is when you wash away all the oils on your body then your skin starts to absorb the water. When you take a fast shower you don't take away the oils which is why you don't get wrinkles when you take a quick bath. Don't even try not taking a shower at all! That will not help you! Your toes and fingertips are the only things experiencing it in your body because the outer layer of your hands and feet called the epidermis is different that the other skin in your body.This layer is thick and contains more dead skin cells. These dead cells soak up water like a tornado! The other skin is thinner and less affective. When you have wrinkly fingers they are waterlogged which means they are filled up with water. As the dead skin around your fingers and toes it pulls on the live skin cells beneath it. Basically, your fingers wrinkle when your skin is filled with water and swells.

MY OPINION

                                     In my opinion I think that when you have this it looks really ugly. I think this because your hands will look old and disgusting. I think that people will like this topic because many people have wrinkly fingers after a shower and would like to know why it happens.

TOP 10 CITES FOR MORE INFORMATION

           

           10. http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/wrinkly_fingers.html

             9.http://www.planet-science.com/categories/under-11s/our-bodies/2011/01/why-does-our-skin-get-wrinkled-after-a-bath.aspx

             8. http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/information/anatomy/skin-wrinkly-in-water.htm

             7.http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/news/why-do-our-fingers-get-pruney#.U0XfqSiRnww

             6. http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/11/why-fingers-wrinkle-in-water/

             5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrinkle

             4. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20951232

             3. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jan/09/skin-wrinkle-water-grip

             2. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/01/22/3673601.htm

             1.http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-our-fingers-and-toes-wrinkle-during-a-bath/

CONCLUSION

                                  So do you guys understand the reasons why your fingers wrinkle when you take a long bath? Can you find any other reason in the websites I gave you? Leave your comments below. In summary, your fingers wrinkle in a long bath because when you take a bath for to long it washes the oils on your body off then it absorbs water causing swelling that is wrinkles