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Many stretch marks products on the market warn you there is no immediate and fantastic solution to prevent or treat stretch marks. However, they immediately add a sales pitch that subtly denies what they just said, ‘it is better for you to do something to prevent stretch marks.’

In addition, a new false promise: ‘A great product, such as our Stretch Mark Prevention Lotion, will considerably diminish the aspect of stretch marks, but we cannot guarantee they will be gone completely.’

Additionally, as they can’t abstain from their own evil giggling, they will go on to say that this is finally, ‘dermatological tested’. Advertisers feel they are clever enough to try to make you believe the suite, ‘when using our balm on existing stretch marks, best results are obtained on new scars that are still red and elevated. For older stretch marks, it will take longer to have any skin reaction or see any good results of our product.’

A lot of women only start seeing what other women tell them about stretch marks when they first 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 might remember something a a relative, a friend or a sister had told them about her pregnancy. Then her exact words may start haunting their mind: “I am sick to death of these tangle of lines I am getting all over my belly!”

If these words are still fresh in your thoughts, you simply have to do your thorough research on stretch mark products before it is too late for your expanding belly. This is probably the reason you are reading this and browsing the Internet for facts.

The sad news you will find is there are way too many promising creams. With these findings, you can only wonder 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 cream to prevent or treat stretch marks. Most products and techniques you see on the market 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 wish not 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 the many different treatments being advertised.

First, we will reject 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 never be gone completely, because stretch marks are in essence scars and are thus extremely difficult to eradicate completely.’

The Absolute Truth About Stretch Marks

The complete truth is stretch marks are visible linear scars . They form in areas of dermal damage caused when skin is not able to withstand over-stretching while collagen and elastin fibers reach tensile capacity. They weaken and eventually fail resulting in tears in the dermal skin layer. They appear on thin skin surfaces as visibly curled stripes and are actually bands of elastin broken beneath the skin. Essentially, stretch marks are scar tissues actually 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 thick, elastic fibers with a regular distribution. Elastin is a protein that coils and recoils like a spring within the connective tissues and accounts for the elasticity of structures such as the skin’s lungs, tendons, intestines, heart, blood vessels, and ligaments. Elastin functions in connective tissues together with collagen. Whereas collagen provides rigidity, elastin provides elasticity .

Stretch marks occur usually during growth spurts or bodybuilding -while on steroids-, or when under 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 stretch marks.

People who have fair to light skin typically have pink-tinged stretch marks, while the same marks on dark skin tones tend to have deeper pigmentation than the tissues surrounding them. Discoloration from stretch marks does fade over time, but regrettably, their striated appearance almost never returns to its original smooth appearance.

It is speculated that the way each person’s skin heals is a predictor 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 if any. 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 scars created by your 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 needed structural elements of healthy skin. It is not a pharmaceutical, chemical, clever concoction, man made drug, herb, moisturizing botanical oil or extract designed in a laboratory or cosmetic industry. No. It is a natural complex compound of biologically active molecules that is already the most balanced and complete solution created by a living creature to protect and fully repair its skin when damaged.

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

The stretch mark prevention and treatment lotion 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 is available in two versions. One plain to prevent stretch marks, which is best used to treat recently, formed stretch marks. The second is a home microdermabrasion treatment with embedded with micro-crystals to abrade stretch marks that are older or rough 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 new biological treatment of stretch marks with an ingredient with biological activity that improves internal and external cellular communication and allows the removal of existing stria stretch marks, while giving the skin the strength and firmness necessary to prevent pregnancy stretch marks please click on the links.

- Louise Lundgren