The following are acceptable: 1. The human skin owes its color to the presence of particles known as melanin. 2.
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1. The snake sheds its skin once a year.1. skin is uncountable I'd say. It sheds all of its skin -- all of the skin it has.
2. cosmetics for sensitive skins.
a. In sentence 1, is 'skin' a countable noun?
b. In sentence 2, even though sensitive skins are not detached from the body (!), why the noun skin was used as a countable noun?