Most of us are familiar with stretch marks: the silvery white scar lines that appear on our skin after a period of rapid growth, pregnancy, or weight gain. If your skin stretched during pregnancy, you might view these as glorious battle scars, but many people feel less than positive about them and welcome suggestions as to how to lessen or remove stretch marks.

Despite this attitude, stretch marks are so common that you are more likely to have them than not, with possibly as many as 90% of pregnancies resulting in some skin scarring. The male sex doesn’t escape either, with normal growth, deliberate muscle development, and weight gain joining the fray. Rare conditions (e.g. Cushing’s syndrome), and lengthy use of some drugs can also contribute.

Removing Stretch Marks easier and quicker than you think.

In pregnancy, the marks tend to be prevalent on the stomach, but can also appear on the breasts and thighs, whilst marks which develop from rapid growth in adolescence appear on the breasts, thighs and hips of young women, and the shoulders and backs of young men.

Stretch marks (or “striae” as they are called by the medical profession) on the surface of the skin are merely the evidence of damage deeper in the tissue. The initial redness of the stretch marks indicates broken vessels in the dermis, and as they heal, so the colour of the scars fades. The texture of the skin may also be changed: smoother, and raised or indented.

The old saying “Prevention is better than cure” is true here, and much has been written on the efficacy of massage, creams and exercise particularly during pregnancy. Unfortunately these pleasant and accessible remedies will not provide a cure-all, and the desire to remove stretch marks remains.

Getting Rid Of Stretch Marks Marks the easy way.

A flourishing industry has developed researching the causes and cures of the scarring. Over-the-counter creams to remove stretch marks are available in every price bracket, with cocoa butter and vitamins A and E favoured ingredients. Collagen and tretinoin have been found to be particularly effective in healing the dermis, and therefore producing comparatively dramatic results on new marks.

Although most people would come to them as a last resort, surgery can completely remove damaged skin, or the less invasive laser therapy can either speed the healing of the torn dermis, or remove scarred surface skin.

For those for whom stretch marks are disfiguring or distressing, it is obvious that there are many avenues of hope. Many thousands of dollars have been spent on researching methods of disguising stretch marks and there are many effective remedies in the form of creams and lotions easily obtainable from local stores or on the Web that can fade your stretch marks to the point of invisibility.

Erase your stretch marks – Stretch Mark Removal in weeks not years.