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Would Your Skin Get More Wrinkly In The Sea?

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Hello question asker.
This has to do with Osmosis.
In sea water, the "saltiness" of the water is higher than the saltiness of your skin, so water is transported out of the skin into the ocean.
In the bath, the tap water is less "salty" than the water in your skin. The water is transported into the surface skin layers via osmosis. The surface of the skin is a layer of dead skin cells. This layer swells up and expands, the expansion of the skin is somewhat limited by the shape of the cells below the skin surface. So the skin surface goes "wrinkley" due to the expansion.
This is the difference between going into sea water and going into bath water.
In other words,it gets more wrinkly in your bath water,so no.
Hope this helped!

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