Anti Aging Skin Tips

Why does your skin peel after being in the sun?

After sunbathing or sunbeds, why does your skin start peeling? Plus its always soft and I would of thought if its burnt it would be rough or even scab? Well Stevie I know its burnt THANKS I had mentioned that in the q!

Public Comments

1. cos its been burnt you idiot
2. the skin has been killed! dead skin sheds off
3. Its because the skin has been burned, and is dead, so it falls off.....simple
4. All the skin you see is dead, anyway. What you do when you burn is to basically incinerate that layer of skin. It flakes away because it has been burned away from the layers underneath.
5. you peel because you burnt off a layer of skin and the new skin is regenerating underneath thats why its not rough.
6. "Peeling after sunburn is your body's way of getting rid of damaged cells. This is necessary because cells damaged by the sun are at risk of becoming cancerous. Although skin peels and new skin layers form, some sunburn damage may remain. This can cause problems later in life. So it is important to try to avoid burning in the first place." Source: Caccer Research UK
7. uve killed the skin soit peels for a new layer like a snake!!
8. It's dead skin; it has been damaged by the ultraviolet light. No, it wont scab, but will wrinkle long before it should do.
9. The outer layer of your skin is always peeling off, but usually the skin underneath is the same colour so you don't notice it. When you get tanned skin, you notice it disappears because the skin below is your normal colour. The dust that your hoover picks up out of your carpet is mainly your dead skin cells, and they're usually a grey colour, which is the colour of the skin on a corpse.