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, “you are better off doing something to prevent them.”

Moreover, a new false promise:
“A great product, such as our Stretch Mark Prevention cream, will considerably diminish the aspect of stretch marks, but we cannot guarantee they will be gone completely.”

Moreover, as they can’t refrain from their own evil giggling, they will add that this is finally, “a proven realistic result” .

Advertisers feel they are clever enough to try to make you believe the suite, “when using our product on existing stretch marks, best results are obtained on new scars that are still red and elevated. On older tissue it will take longer to see the full effects of this fantastic cream .”

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

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

The sad news you will find is that there are too many promising creams.

With these findings, you can only wonder if there is any truth behind them. Do they really prevent and heal stretch marks? Is this the best product for me?

And Hopefully, You Will Find the Dark, Daunting Truth!

You might have already been warned there is no immediate and fantastic solution to to treat or prevent stretch marks. Most products and techniques you see on the market are practically useless.

And after all the nonsense you've heard or know for sure others pay for, you're not ready to buy any of those “clever” concoctions, be it “botanical”, “herbal”, “pharmaceutical”, or the new fuzzy “cosmeceutical” category, are you?

We will at least conclude you wish not to fall prey to the same nonsense.

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 discard outright all those claiming, “This is a miracle in a bottle” and others alike. It is better to focus our time and effort on those 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 Complete Truth About Stretch Marks

The full truth is stretch marks are visible linear scars . They form in areas of dermal damage caused when skin is not capable of withstanding over-stretching while elastin and collagen fibers reach tensile capacity. They weaken and ultimately fail resulting in tears in the dermal skin layer.

They show up on thin skin surfaces as visibly curled stripes and are bands of elastin broken beneath the skin. Essentially, stretch marks are scars 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 disposition. 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 elastic fibers of connective tissue and accounts for the elasticity of structures such as the skin, blood vessels, heart, intestines, lungs, tendons, and ligaments. Elastin functions in connective tissues together with collagen. Whereas elastin provides elasticity, collagen provides rigidity to connective tissues.

Stretch marks appear frequently during pregnancy, growth spurts, bodybuilding while on steroids, or under other hormonal imbalances.

It may surprise you to know that in the United States, it is estimated that 90% of pregnant women, 70% of adolescent females, and 40% of adolescent males have stretch marks.

It seems there is not an ethnic tendency about stretch marks, as people of all skin colors can be affected. People who have fair to light skin typically have pink-tinged stretch marks, while the same marks on darker skin tones tend to have deeper pigmentation than the skin surrounding them. Discoloration from stretch marks does fade over time, but regrettably, their striated appearance almost never returns to its original smooth look.

It is speculated that the way each person's skin heals is a good indicator of the depth and severity of stretch marks and how they may eventually appear. A person whose skin heals well with minimal scarring can expect less obvious stretch marks . Skin that heals poorly (or slowly) or tends to develop raised or thickened scars can generally expect stretch marks that are 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 scar tissue created by your own body to heal damage caused by overly stretching skin. Your body creates them to heal itself as quickly as it can possibly do 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 Nature

Fortunately, there is a complete & balanced solution for stretch mark prevention and treatment. One packed with antioxidants, collagen, elastin boosters, enzymes, and cell communicating ingredients that contribute 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 crucial structural elements of healthy skin.

It is not a chemical, man made drug, moisturizing botanical oil, herb, clever concoction of isolates, pharmaceutical, or extracts designed in a laboratory or cosmetic industry. No. It is a natural compound of biologically active molecules that is already the most complete and balanced 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 crucial elements we find in human skin: collagen, elastin and proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans.

Glycosaminoglycans and Proteoglycans are the water holding molecules in the skin responsible for providing hydration, binding and swelling pressure to tissues allowing them to withstand compression and stretching forces, which thus prevent tearing and scarring of the deep layers of the skin.

The stretch mark prevention and treatment cream 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 since it is very compatible with living tissues.

The product comes in two versions. One plain to prevent stretch marks, which is best used to treat recently, formed stretch marks.

The second version is a home microdermabrasion treatment with embedded with micro-crystals to resurface stretch marks that are rough and older 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.

A natural and effective treatment for stretch marks that contains ingredients that improve internal and external cellular communication and allow the skin to dissolve existing scar tissues, while stimulating the production of the fibroblasts, and thus the formation of collagen and elastin fibers plus water holding molecules from within, is the only way to give the skin the strength, resilience and firmness necessary to over-stretch when needed, for example during pregnancy or growth spurts.