Exactly how many skin cells does a person shed daily?

If you're wondering exactly how many skin cells fall off, get ready for some staggering numbers. Scientists estimate that the human body is made up of around 10 trillion cells in total. Your skin makes up about 16 percent of your body weight, which means you have roughly 1.6 trillion skin cells [source: BBC]. read more

We lose 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells every minute. That means we lose around 50 million skin cells every day. It may seem like a lot but it is only a fraction of the averaged 37 TRILLIONS cells of your entire body in which it is estimated that 10% of them are skin cells (~3.7 trillions, so you shed about 0.0014% of all your skin cells daily). read more