Answer:
Soft and fragile is my skin, I get my growth in mud. Iām dangerous as much as pretty, for if not careful, I draw blood.
Often held but never touched. Always wet but never rusts. Often bits but seldom bit. To use it well you must have wit.
We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size.What are we?
What can be heard and caught but never seen?
What must be in the oven yet can not be baked? Grows in the heat yet shuns the light of day? What sinks in water but rises with air? Looks like skin but is fine as hair?
You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows.