If you've just become pregnant, congratulations! You are about to embark on a wonderful journey full of love and learning, one of life's greatest and most magical experiences.
Unfortunately, pregnancy also opens a whole new Pandora's Box of concerns and worries, and one you might be considering right now (among many others no doubt) is pregnancy and stretch marks.
Stretch marks or Striae Distensae, is a form of scarring that occurs when the skin is stretched very rapidly (such as during pregnancy) and as a result small tears can occur in the tissue of the skin.
When this tearing occurs, there is a depletion of collagen in the skin (collagen is a protein that keeps skin soft and stretchy) in the area of the tearing, and as a result marks that are a different color, texture and indentation appear where the skin was stretched.
These marks are Striae.
The best way to deal with pregnancy and stretch marks is to accept them as inevitability.
Any pregnant woman is going to have some form or another of stretch marks.
Some women wear them as a badge of honor, others just try to ignore them.
However, we do recognize that some women can have their self esteem and body image impacted heavily by Striae scars, especially those unlucky enough to get large scars or lots of scarring across different areas of the body.
As with most things, when dealing with pregnancy and stretch marks, prevention is the best method of avoiding being heavily affected by these scars.
With a good prevention regime, you may be lucky enough to avoid the scars altogether or at least reduce the amount of scarring that occurs.
To prevent scarring, the first step is to find a good treatment.
A Striae formulated cream that is safe for pregnancy will have a much better effect as preventative than it will have as a cure, so start applying one regularly as soon as you start to show signs of growth.
Remember to avoid any cream that contains Retin-A or Tretinoin, as these might be harmful to your baby, and are only recommended for non-pregnant Striae scar sufferers.
In addition to your cream application regime, keep your skin moisturized with a cocoa butter treatment.
Not only will this keep your skin soft and feeling beautiful, it may help to increase the elasticity of your skin and help avoid scarring when the skin is stretched.
Cocoa butter is actually an old pregnancy and stretch marks home cure that has been around for many years, and millions of women swear by it.
So at the worst you'll be hydrating your skin, at the best you'll be giving your skin a double whammy prevention regime against pregnancy stretch marks.
Unfortunately, pregnancy also opens a whole new Pandora's Box of concerns and worries, and one you might be considering right now (among many others no doubt) is pregnancy and stretch marks.
Stretch marks or Striae Distensae, is a form of scarring that occurs when the skin is stretched very rapidly (such as during pregnancy) and as a result small tears can occur in the tissue of the skin.
When this tearing occurs, there is a depletion of collagen in the skin (collagen is a protein that keeps skin soft and stretchy) in the area of the tearing, and as a result marks that are a different color, texture and indentation appear where the skin was stretched.
These marks are Striae.
The best way to deal with pregnancy and stretch marks is to accept them as inevitability.
Any pregnant woman is going to have some form or another of stretch marks.
Some women wear them as a badge of honor, others just try to ignore them.
However, we do recognize that some women can have their self esteem and body image impacted heavily by Striae scars, especially those unlucky enough to get large scars or lots of scarring across different areas of the body.
As with most things, when dealing with pregnancy and stretch marks, prevention is the best method of avoiding being heavily affected by these scars.
With a good prevention regime, you may be lucky enough to avoid the scars altogether or at least reduce the amount of scarring that occurs.
To prevent scarring, the first step is to find a good treatment.
A Striae formulated cream that is safe for pregnancy will have a much better effect as preventative than it will have as a cure, so start applying one regularly as soon as you start to show signs of growth.
Remember to avoid any cream that contains Retin-A or Tretinoin, as these might be harmful to your baby, and are only recommended for non-pregnant Striae scar sufferers.
In addition to your cream application regime, keep your skin moisturized with a cocoa butter treatment.
Not only will this keep your skin soft and feeling beautiful, it may help to increase the elasticity of your skin and help avoid scarring when the skin is stretched.
Cocoa butter is actually an old pregnancy and stretch marks home cure that has been around for many years, and millions of women swear by it.
So at the worst you'll be hydrating your skin, at the best you'll be giving your skin a double whammy prevention regime against pregnancy stretch marks.
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