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Skin 1

Skin color varies from person because of melanin a pignent which protects skin from the sun harmful rays. The more melanin you have in your skin the darker it is.
Skin is your protective coat shielding your body from the weather and from infection and helping to keep it at right temperation.
Skin is your largest sense receptor responding to touch pressure heat and cold see touch.
Skin makes vitamin D for your body from sunlight.
The epidermis the thin outer layer is just dead cells.
Even though it thickness averages just 0.8 in 2 mm your skin gets an eighth of your blood supply.