why does your skin wrinkle after taking a bath?

Answer 1

If you stay in the water TOO LONG then your skin is obviously going to because you've deepend the D.N.A lines
Too much science stuff to understand? Ask your local neighbour!

Answer 2

Your skin is covered in sebum, something that keeps your skin somewhat waterproof. After being in water too long, this is washed away which allows water to absorb into the skin like a sponge.

Since your skin is connected underneath to certain spots, this swelling of the skin creates wrinkles.

Answer 3

the water in the tub literally leaches the water in your skin out. Dehydrates your skin, in other words. Makes it wrinkle. Suggest showers are healthier, and drink more water to replace what you've lost sitting in the tub.

Answer 4

Your skin is porous and absorbs water. When you are in water for a while it absorbs enough to cause it to expand a bit creating temporary wrinkles.

Answer 5

for sensible! How else are you meant to understand once you're finished? i will purely save letting out somewhat of water and topping it up with warm for a minimum of an hour. Baths are large.

Answer 6

Because the amount of water outside your body is greater than the amount of water inside your body. For example: if you put your hand in a bucket full of water, the water in the bucket sucks up the water in the tips of your fingers. You cant see it but thats what happens.

Answer 7

It is not the "bath", it is in how long you stay in the water. Too long and you get "pruney".

Answer 8

Because of the chemical property of "Osmosis."

Answer 9

don't kno it could b d length of time the water spends on your body