: Why can the human body absorb toxins thru the skin, but you can’t rehydrate yourself by sitting in water?

Question

: Why can the human body absorb toxins thru the skin, but you can’t rehydrate yourself by sitting in water?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Random tangent: in an *emergency* situation, you can hydrate sitting in water (salt water, brackish water, etc). However, the water is not penetrating the skin so much as wicking into your colon via a towel / strip of cloth.