As a dermatologist with a focus on skin health, I can tell you that the human body sheds dead skin cells continuously as part of the natural skin renewal process. On average, a person loses about 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells every minute. If we calculate this over the course of a day, which has 1,440 minutes (24 hours x 60 minutes), the total number of skin cells lost would be: \[ 30,000 \text{ cells/minute} \times 1,440 \text{ minutes/day} = 43,200,000 \text{ cells/day} \] And if we use the higher estimate: \[ 40,000 \text{ cells/minute} \times 1,440 \text{ minutes/day} = 57,600,000 \text{ cells/day} \] So, in a day, you could be losing anywhere from 43.2 million to 57.6 million skin cells. Over the course of a year, this amounts to approximately 9 pounds (4 kilograms) of skin cells. read more >>

Though you can't see it happening, every minute of the day we lose about 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells off the surface of our skin. So just in the time it took you to read this far, you've probably lost about 40,000 cells. That's almost 9 pounds (4 kilograms) of cells every year!read more >>