The scrub was fantastic, sloughing off all the old skin cells and leaving my skin feeling clean and tingly.

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Waxing and shaving causes micro trauma to the skin, leaving it vulnerable to pathogens like poxvirus, they told a British Medical Journal publication.

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At the slightest friction, Jake's skin would shed, leaving the newborn wailing in pain.

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Do your skin lesions go away completely without leaving a bruise or a mark?

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The weather, so balmy in June, reverted to rainy type in July, confounding predictions of a prolonged scorcher, leaving the meteorologists red-faced and the skin of stay-at-home Britons pallid.

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It caused her outer skin layer to deteriorate and burn off, leaving at least 60 percent of her body as an open wound.

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However, because the "new" skin must be administered within 24 hours of leaving the lab, it hasn't been attempted much farther away -- never before in South Africa -- and it's not cheap.

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