Avoiding pregnancy stretch marks is very important to most pregnant women, with good reason. Pregnancy can result in extreme stomach stretch marks, as well as stretch marks (also called striae) all over your breasts and hips. These striae commonly start out as highly discolored ripples of scar tissue. They are often reddish or purplish in color. As time goes by, they may fade out to a silvery white, but their undesirably rippled appearance will remain the same.

Avoiding pregnancy stretch marks is as easy as increasing the skin's ability to stretch. Striae are caused when the skin is exposed to quick, strong stretching forces, resulting in tiny tears and little rips. These lesions heal, and are replaced by scar tissue. These rippled ridges of discolored scar tissue are what we call stretch marks. Increase the skin's ability to stretch, and the rips and tears will never happen in the first place.

The body has its own method for preventing pregnancy stretch marks. It sends collagen and elastin to the rescue. Collagen and elastin are 2 proteins which are part of our skin. They confer skin its ability to stretch. Increase the body's levels of collagen and elastin, and you'll endow your skin with the capacity to stretch further, naturally.

Stretch Marks Removed with Natural Ingredients

Instead of rubbing a simple moisturizer into your skin two times a day, rub in a product that has ingredients that will trigger the regeneration of these essential proteins. Many lotions contain trace amounts of collagen and elastin, and some are filled with them, but sadly they both miss the point. Trying to supply proteins to your skin from the outside-in is useless. They must be generated as part of the architecture of your skin and thus from within. If you want to apply a potent anti-stretch mark product, use a cream that has the capacity to activate your skin's own restoration mechanisms: a cream that will activate the replacement of flawed skin cells with new healthy skin cells from within.

Creams that contain natural ingredients such as snail serum utilize biological activators from your body's own restorative mechanisms to avoid and eliminate stretch marks. They trigger and control an orderly production of collagen, elastin and GAGs.

Using this type of cream two times a day, for a period of time, depending on how old and deep the blemishes are, the cream gently dissolves skin lesions, reducing and even eliminating all signs of stretch marks. It also improves skin's elasticity, elevating density and moisture retention capacity.