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Why does the skin of your fingers shrink when you wash clothes for a long time?

Soap and detergent solutions are used to wash clothes which are hypertonic compared to the skin cells. This results in exosmosis in the skin cells and thus the skin over the fingers shrinks when we wash clothes for a long time.


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