To remove stretch marks, you can use home care, based on skin exfoliation and good hydration, or you can use cosmetic treatments, such as lasers or microneedes, for example.
To find out which treatment is most appropriate first, you need to identify the color of the stretch marks. The red stripes have this color due to the rupture of the blood capillaries and can still be treated because their regeneration capacity is great. Purple stripes are in the middle stage, but are even easier to solve. The white stripes have this color because they no longer receive the proper blood supply at this specific location, even if it is a scar that forms on the skin, indicating that the skin’s ability to regenerate at this stage is much less.
- Red stripes are new and easier to solve.
- In this case what can be done is to moisturize the skin a lot by relying on healing products.
- Although they cause severe itching.
- You can’t scratch the skin.
- As they can make stretch marks worse.
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In addition, rosehip oil is another excellent option for masking stretch marks and scars, helping to soften and lighten the skin. See How to use rosehip oil.
To remove white stretch marks, ideally, it is in addition to exfoliating the skin, moisturizing it very well, and it is still necessary to resort to more improved aesthetic treatments such as:
These treatments stimulate local blood circulation, favoring the formation of new collagen and elastin cells, which form the skin, manage to decrease the size and shrink stretch marks, until they become imperceptible.
Surgery is rarely indicated, but when there is a large amount of stretch marks and accumulated fat, you can opt for an abdominoplasty, for example.
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Stretch marks usually appear during pregnancy because the skin stretches a lot and there is always the action of the elastin hormone, which relaxes ligaments, tendons, but also the skin, which can make it more fragile and flaccid. Other situations that also favor the formation of stretch marks are in adolescence, after gaining weight very quickly, in people who take corticosteroids because this type of medication also reduces the amount of collagen, which gives firmness and support to the skin.
Stretch marks appear when the skin needs to stretch very far and very quickly, but they usually appear in the following areas:
Especially in men, stretch marks can appear horizontally on the back, as if it were a ladder.
Avoiding rapid weight gain and keeping skin highly hydrated is the best way to prevent stretch marks from forming on the skin. About 8 out of 10 pregnant women have stretch marks and not all will go away spontaneously. However, when a woman does not grow very quickly during pregnancy and takes care to apply creams and oils to the skin on a daily basis, the risk of stretch marks is lower.
Elastic creams are most effective in new stretch marks, which are red or purple. In this case, the cream should contain Q10 or have a tightening effect for example. The cream should be applied with a local massage every day after bathing and can be reapplied several times a day. This same type of cream can be used to prevent the appearance of new stretch marks in the most affected areas such as the breasts, belly, thighs and buttocks.