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) all over your breasts and hips. These striae usually start out as highly discolored ripples of scar tissue. They use to be 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 enhancing the skin's capability 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. Improve the skin's capability to stretch, and the rips and tears will never appear in the first place.

The body has its own method for avoiding pregnancy stretch marks. It sends collagen and elastin to the rescue. Collagen and elastin are two proteins which are part of our skin. They give skin its capability to stretch. Elevate the levels of collagen and elastin in the body, and you'll equip your skin with the capacity to stretch further, naturally.

Natural Ingredients Fade Stretch Marks

Instead of applying a mere moisturizer into your skin two times a day, rub in a product that has ingredients that will trigger the synthesis of these basic proteins. Many solutions contain trace amounts of collagen and elastin, and some are loaded with them, but sadly they both miss the point. There is no use in trying to supply proteins to your skin from the outside-in. They must be produced as part of the structure of your skin and thus from within. If you want to use a potent anti-stretch mark product, use a cream that has the capacity to activate your skin's own renewal systems: a cream that will trigger 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 regenerative mechanisms to avoid and erase stretch marks. They trigger and regulate 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 softly dissolves skin lesions, shrinking and even eliminating all traces of stretch marks. It also optimizes skin's elasticity, increasing density and moisture retention capacity.