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it's fascinating :-) You are saying that soap and water can actually get into my bloodstream when I'm having a bath...:-) It's a strange thought...))) I was led to believe the skin is like goretex, allows sweating out but no way in...))) You guys are brilliant, thank you...

Thanks for your reply, I understand that my skin is soaked and puffy, but the water (and soap too presumably) don't pass into the bloodstream, do they?

I really appreciate your answers, but still no answer as to why chemicals like nicotine can pass into the bloodstream but water doesn't.

I see I have been showing my ignorance here. I suppose my question should have been : "Why do some medicines, poisons and pharmacceutical chemicals pass through into the bloodstream, but water molecules do not" ?

I read that essential oils can go through the skin. I am told that there are more water molecules in just 10 drops of water than stars in the whole universe, so if they are so tiny, why don't they go through the skin membrane pores, which are perfectly visible under an optical microscope? You...

Thank you all for your replies, links and explanations. I am fascinated by this, though by reading Brian Greene's book The Elegant Universe at the moment, I'm starting to realize that it isn't possible to apply 'classical' thinking or seeing to the quantum world. Kind of natural to want to do...

Are there ANY possible photographic or other types of images of a water molecule? Or are they simply too small to get an image of? Thank you.