Human skin is under tension like a rubber glove that has had air blown into it....
Human skin is under tension like a rubber glove that has had air blown into it. Why does skin acquire wrinkles as people get older? An older person's skin has undergone much irreversible elastic strain. OAn older person's skin thickens with age and repeated stress. OMany individual fibers in an older person's skin have exceeded their elastic limits. Tensile stress on an older person's skin produces tensile strain in the plastic regime.