Can we talk about the weirdest thing I just read in a skincare textbook?

I was flipping through an old esthetics book from 2005 and it said the average person's face has about 20,000 pores. That number just seems wild to me, like, I picture a tiny city on someone's nose. Has anyone else come across a fact that made you stop and stare at a client's face for a second?

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wendy20517d ago

Wait, what? That's actually insane, I can't even picture that many.

averym8217d ago

Back in culinary school, my chef swore humans only had like 5,000 pores total. I totally believed him until I saw that exact 20,000 number on a science blog last year. It completely blew my mind, now I catch myself zoning out just thinking about the logistics of all that oil production. My whole understanding of skin texture was wrong.