Entries RSSThe plight of stretch marks and their removal!
No woman is unaware of the plethora of stretch marks appearance on our bodies. It is a sad but a proven fact that reasons such as post pregnancy, excessive weight gain or heredity may cause these reddish brown, pink or dark brown marks to appear on different parts of your body. And with time these may turn into silver streaks making your body their permanent home for the rest of your life.
Well, I am not saying this to distress you but it is a fact and I pray no woman suffers from this. Women may find these appearing on their abdominal area, upper arms, lower back, thighs, breasts or hips. If you are too young and see stretch marks appearing on your body, it may due to sudden spurt in the growth of your body owing to puberty where as some ladies also develop it because of corticosteroids or the crushing’s syndrome.
Alright now let’s have a look at how can we save ourselves from this. The medical stores are otherwise loaded with creams and lotions manufactured with the purpose of reducing these marks. Ideally one should never go and buy these creams at random or without any expert’s advice or guidance. You skin is no joke and hence you can’t afford to take any risks as far as this concerned.
Nevertheless for your information and according to experts’ advice, here are some salts that must be present in your cream if you want to combat stretch marks on your body.
Like I explained in my earlier articles also that stretch marks are a result of tearing of the deepest layer of skin due to excessive stretching of the skin. This leads to the loss in the elasticity of muscle fibers in the skin and hence results in thin streaks over the upper layer of the skin.
• Creams containing cocoa butter works extremely well as a moisturizer and helps improving the elasticity of the skin to a great deal.
• Application of creams with the inclusion of asiatica extract, alpha tocopherol (vitamin E) and collagen-elastin hydrolysates is also very helpful in their removal. Here we need to understand that stretch marks appear by the rupturing of collagen and elastic production in the skin. Hence we can repair these by using certain skin rejuvenation products such as wheat gem oil and lanolin.
• Besides, creams containing retinoids retinol and retinaldehyde derived from Vitamin A as well as alpha hydroxyl acids (AHAs) are known to provide great relief from these marks by increasing cell regeneration it the body.
Hence these are few basic about the causes and the therapies you can employ to combat stretch marks on your skin. One thing to be kept in mind is that this should not lower your self confidence in any marks. Marks are simply external anomalies which can be easily taken care of. This should not stop you being your usual chirpy self for life is too short and has no place for trivialities like these to disrupt you from being happy.