Why do fingers and toes wrinkle when left in water?
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The outer layer of skin cells contain lots of keratin and absorb a lot of water, causing them to swell up.
The fingers and toes have quite thick skin, and not much surface area over which to spread the results of the swelling, so we get wrinkles there.
Judging by the look of my skin as it is now - you would think it's never been out of water. By the way good answer Ben
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