The term “dust” is usually a generic name for any type of small particle. One of the most frustrating things about home cleaning is that no matter how hard we try to keep things clean, household dust still accumulates. Dust is made up of a variety of things from hair, animal dander, molds, pollutants, pollen, bacteria, dirt, fibers, dryer lint, insulation, decomposing insects, dust mites and their excrement, as well as skin flakes that humans shed. The entire environment, from animals to plants, is constantly shedding dead cells.
According to the study, household dust consists of a potpourri that includes fibers from your carpets and upholstered furniture, dead skin shed by people, and tracked-in soil and airborne particles blown in from outdoors. The tiny flakes of skin that you lose on a daily basis create about 70% of the dust in your home. That grey dust, it turns out, is largely human skin. Furniture fabric, clothes and bedding release tiny fibers every time they are disturbed. Not only that, carpeting sheds fiber as well. If you add them together, you would probably have up to 2 pounds of new dust every week.
We know that humans come in different colors, but the pigments which color your skin are found beneath the layer that you shed. Dry skin is a translucent grey color. The outer layer of skin, or the epidermis, sheds skin cells and replaces them soon with new cells. And it is completely replaced once a month. It is estimated that we lose 35,000 – 45,000 dead cells each and every minutes. Unfortunately the lower layer of your skin (called the dermis) is not replaced and since the scars and stretch marks occur here therefore those scars will stay with you.
According to the study, household dust consists of a potpourri that includes fibers from your carpets and upholstered furniture, dead skin shed by people, and tracked-in soil and airborne particles blown in from outdoors. The tiny flakes of skin that you lose on a daily basis create about 70% of the dust in your home. That grey dust, it turns out, is largely human skin. Furniture fabric, clothes and bedding release tiny fibers every time they are disturbed. Not only that, carpeting sheds fiber as well. If you add them together, you would probably have up to 2 pounds of new dust every week.
We know that humans come in different colors, but the pigments which color your skin are found beneath the layer that you shed. Dry skin is a translucent grey color. The outer layer of skin, or the epidermis, sheds skin cells and replaces them soon with new cells. And it is completely replaced once a month. It is estimated that we lose 35,000 – 45,000 dead cells each and every minutes. Unfortunately the lower layer of your skin (called the dermis) is not replaced and since the scars and stretch marks occur here therefore those scars will stay with you.