The skin also protects us from dehydration and it protects us from a wide variety of different types of chemical agents and harmful chemical things. So if some type of harmful molecule gets onto our skin there is a very high probability that the skin will not allow that harmful chemical to actually go through the skin and enter our organs found inside our body. So this is the function in protection. Now, the second function of the skin is that in sensation. So on our skin and in our skin, we basically have a wide variety of different types of sensory or. Somatic, sensory receptors.