Following are few such facts:

• Skin is the largest organ in the body serving many functions essential to life.
  

• Skin is considered to be an important expression of beauty.
  

• Skin and its appendages, hair and nails together, make or mar the natural, physical beauty of a person.
  

• Skin is considered as a major sex organ as its feel is sensually vital.
  

• Skin protects the body and maintains body fluids and chemicals.
  

• The regulation of body temperature by controlling the inflow and outflow of heat is also the function of ayurveda.
  

• Skin also acts as an excretory organ that eliminates in form of sweat a major portion of calories provided to the body by the digestive system that is utilized in physical work.
  

• Skin determines whether a person is thin or stout or even overweight.
  

• Skin acts as a deterrent against toxins, germs and other hazards. This is the main reason why 'burn' patients with extensive skin damage suffer from several infections and loss of body fluids