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

Avoiding pregnancy stretch marks is as easy as increasing the skin's ability to stretch. Striae appear when the skin is exposed to quick, strong stretching forces, causing tiny tears and little rips. These lesions heal, and are replaced by scar tissue. These rippled ridges of discolored scar tissue are what we know as stretch marks. Increase the skin's ability to stretch, and the rips and tears will never appear 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 equip your skin with the ability to stretch further, naturally.

Natural Ingredients Erase Stretch Marks

Instead of rubbing a mere moisturizer into your skin twice a day, rub in a product that has ingredients that will trigger the synthesis of these essential proteins. Many solutions include trace amounts of collagen and elastin, and some are loaded with them, but unfortunately 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 use a potent anti-stretch mark product, use a cream that has the ability to stimulate your skin's own restoration systems: 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 natural activators from your body's own regenerative processes to prevent and erase stretch marks. They trigger and regulate an orderly production of collagen, elastin and GAGs.

While using this type of cream twice a day, for a period of time, depending on how old and deep the blemishes are, the cream gently erases skin lesions, reducing and even eliminating all signs of stretch marks. It also optimizes skin's elasticity, elevating density and moisture retention capability.