Stretch marks may appear on your belly and can make you feel too embarrassed to wear a bikini, to change clothes in front of other women at the gym, or even to undress in front of your husband. Stomach stretch marks appear as a result of extreme weight gain and loss, usually due to pregnancy. Pregnancy stretch marks can leave unattractive, reddish purple marks all over your hips and breasts, but are specially inclined to affect your belly.

How Stretch Marks can be Prevented

Stretch marks appear when the skin is pushed beyond its ability to stretch, resulting in tiny tears. When these tears heal, they are replaced with scar tissue. These rippled and pale scars are what we know as striae, or stretch marks. This scar tissue contains less pigment than surrounding skin, so when you go sunbathing, those patches will remain paler than tanned skin. Striae often begin as red, angry ripples, which turn into silvery white ripples as the years go by.

The skin is a remarkable organ. It's one of the largest organs, evidencing a high level of complexity. Collagen and elastin, two proteins that give skin its binding nature and elasticity, allow the skin to stretch to extremes. Stomach stretch marks occur when our bodies lack the required amounts of collagen and elastin. In order to avoid stretch marks, it is helpful to rub a high quality cream that contains elastin and collagen regenerative stimulators. By rubbing these triggers into your skin, twice a day you can help your skin's recovery. This is not done with a cream that contains bovin collagen or elastin, those will do no more than temporarily attract moist to your skin. This is done by using a cream that contains elements similar to those found in our own bodies. You can also use a cream that stimulates the replacement of flawed skin cells and the production of new collagen and elastin to repair striae that have already occurred.

There are some creams that utilize biological activators like those of your body's own reconstructive processes to avoid and eliminate stretch marks. These creams trigger and regulate an orderly production of collagen, elastin and GAGs and the replacement of flawed skin with healthy skin cells.

With regular use (twice a day for a period of time depending on how old and deep the blemishes are) these types of cream dissolves flawed cells, gently dissolves skin lesions, shrinks and even eliminates all signs of stretch marks. It also kills pathogens and stimulates the synthesis of normal collagen, improving elasticity.