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Sweat does contain more than water and salt (urea for example). This is actually long established. But these substances are hardly toxins, even though the body
by MauranKilom 5y ago
Sweat does contain more than water and salt (urea for example). This is actually long established. But these substances are hardly toxins, even though the body has reasons excreting them.
It's still unclear how you think the concentration of these things on the skin will be lower with sweat dripping down (and evaporating) than when surrounded by a hundred liters of bathwater though.
- sova 5y agoMy reasoning was pretty simple: if you sit in a bath things can leave your body and also have ample opportunity to re-enter your body. Your comment on relative concentrations is helpful and makes me reconsider this notion. As a naive and simple-minded person I think of entering a bath whilst covered in mud. Yes, the relative concentrations of mud on my skin's surface and mud in the water would clearly suggest I am "clean," but will I really feel clean stepping out of a tub that looks more opaque than clear? Maybe it is no surprise I have such trouble understanding the world with my simple-minded approaches.