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What Products on the Market can Really Deal with Stretch Marks?

by Louise Lundgren

Many advertisiers of anti stretch mark lotions warn you there is no immediate and quick solution to prevent or treat stretch marks. However, they promptly add a sales pitch that subtly denies what they just said, 'you are better off doing something to prevent them.'

In addition, a new false promise: 'A great product, such as our Stretch Mark Preventing Cream, will significantly diminish the look of stretch marks, but we cannot guarantee they will be gone completely.'

Moreover, as they can't abstain from their own evil giggling, they will go on to say that this is finally, 'dermatological tested'. Advertisers think they are clever enough to try to make you believe the suite, 'when using our cream on stretch marks, best results are obtained on new scars that are still red and elevated. On older tissue it will take longer to see the full effects of this fantastic cream .'

Many women only start seeing what other women tell them about stretch marks when they just become pregnant. Unfortunately, just a little after noticing the glee that sparkles in their eyes and glows on their face as a mother to be, they possibly remember something a a relative, a friend or a sister had once told them about her pregnancy. Then her exact words may begin haunting their mind: "I am sick to death of these lines I am getting all over my body!"

If these words are still in your thoughts, you simply have to do your own research on stretch mark products before it is too late for your growing belly. This is probably why you are reading this and browsing the Internet for info.

The sad news you positively will find is there are way too many promising treatments. With these findings, you can only ponder if there is any truth behind them. Do they effectively prevent and heal stretch marks? Is this the best product for me?

And Hopefully, You Will Find the Hidden, Daunting FactsTruth!

You might have already been warned there is no immediate and fantastic product to to treat or prevent stretch marks. Most lotions and techniques you see out there are practically useless. And after all the nonsense you've heard others pay for, you're not ready to buy any of those 'clever' concoctions, be it 'herbal', 'pharmaceutical', botanical, or the new fuzzy 'cosmeceutics' category, are you?

We will at least accept you do not wish to fall prey to the same game. So, bear with us and hold this in the back of your mind while we search together for truth in the claims made by many of the treatment products being advertised.

First, we will discard outright all those claiming, 'This is a miracle in a bottle' and others similar. Our time and effort is better focused on the ones warning us, 'not to get caught up in false promises, for stretch marks will not be gone completely, because stretch marks are in essence scar tissues and are thus extremely difficult to eradicate completely.'

The Full Truth About Stretch Marks

The full truth is stretch marks are visible scars . They form in areas of skin damage caused when the dermis is not able to withstand over-stretching while collagen and elastin fibers reach tensile capacity. They weaken and finally fail resulting in tears in the dermal skin layer. They show up on thin skin surfaces as visibly curled stripes and are bands of elastin broken beneath the dermis. Essentially, stretch marks are scars that have formed from the inside out, rather than scarring from external wounds.

Scanning electron microscopy shows extensive tangles of fine, curled, elastic fibers with a random arrangement. This arrangement is in contrast to normal skin, which has elastic, thick fibers with a regular distribution. Elastin is an elastic fiber protein that coils and recoils like a spring within the connective tissues and accounts for the elasticity of structures such as the skin's blood vessels, heart, lungs, intestines, tendons, and ligaments. Elastin functions in connective tissues together with collagen. Whereas collagen provides rigidity, elastin provides elasticity .

Stretch marks evolve frequently during growth spurts, pregnancy, weight swings, or when going through other hormonal imbalances. It may surprise you to know that in the United States, it is estimated that 40% of adolescent males, 70% of adolescent women and 90% of pregnant women have stria.

People who have fair to light skin typically have pink-tinged stretch marks, while the same marks on darker skin tones tend to take on deeper pigmentation than the skin surrounding them. Discoloration from stretch marks does fade over time, but regrettably, their striated appearance rarely returns to its original smooth appearance.

It is speculated that the way each person's skin heals is a good indicator of the depth and severity of stretch marks and how they may eventually develop. A person whose skin heals well with minimal scarring can expect less obvious stretch marks . Skin that heals poorly (or slowly) or tends to develop thick and raised scars can generally expect stretch marks to be more pronounced and obvious.

Stretch marks are caused by TEARS in a thinned or technically atrophic skin, with fine dermal collagen bundles organized in straight lines parallel to the surface, created by your own body to heal those tears. Let me repeat that: stretch marks are scar tissue created by your own body to heal damage caused by overstretching skin. Basically they are the response produced by your body to heal itself as soon as possible and with its own resources.

Once the scars are formed and prominent because of their depth, length, discoloration, and texture it is very difficult to make them disappear.

A Solution from Mother Nature

Fortunately, there is a complete & balanced solution for stretch mark prevention and treatment. One full with antioxidants, collagen, elastin boosters, enzymes, and cell communicating ingredients that work to orchestrate the intricate balance between the degradation of scar tissues within the dermis and cells that have become damaged by overstretching and the use of their constitutive amino-acids for the reproduction of new cells and all the required structural elements of healthy skin. It is not a chemical, man made drug, clever concoction of isolates, pharmaceutical discovery, herb, moisturizing botanical oil or extract designed in a laboratory or cosmetic industry. No. It is a natural compound of biologically active molecules that is already the most balanced and complete solution created by a living creature to protect and fully recover its skin when damaged.

Moreover, although this creature is in an evolutionary stage different from humans, nevertheless its skin is made of the same fundamental elements we find in human skin: collagen, elastin and proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans. Glycosaminoglycans and Proteoglycans are the water holding molecules in the skin responsible for providing hydration, binding and swelling pressure to tissues allowing them to withstand compression and stretching forces, which thus prevents tearing and scarring of the deep layers of the dermis.

The stretch mark prevention and remedial cream made with this biological solution is natural, not some isolate derived or extracted from it. In addition, it is not only effective for preventing stretch marks but is also safe during pregnancy and postpartum for it is totally compatible with living structures.

The product comes in two versions. One plain to prevent stretch marks, which is best used to treat newly, formed stretch marks. The second is a home microdermabrasion treatment with embedded with micro-crystals to abrade stretch marks that are rough and older on the surface as they help to breakdown or exfoliate damaged skin physically while massaging the crystals, and thereby facilitate the penetration of the cream deeper within the skin.

For more information about the natural stretch marks scar tissue removal with an ingredient with biological activity that improves internal and external cellular communication and triggers the removal of existing stretch marks, while giving the skin the resilience and firmness necessary to prevent pregnant stretch marks please click on the links.

Published June 8th, 2007

Filed in Health, Teen, Women

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