All you need to know about stretch marks
Stretch Marks On Stomach With Or Without Pregnancy - cream to remove them
Stretch marks have always been a real aesthetical problem and thus logically also a great subject for companies to create new and new products for. But are they all effective? For this purpose I spent a really nice amount of time surfing the internet, like different website, forums, discussions, etc. and this is what I found. Without any doubt, the most positive comments were on the cream called Urban Skintrition. To sum up the stories, people usually complained that they had tried a few creams, but didn't see any difference at all. However, people who tried Urban Skintrition saw huge improvement. I'd say it's finally something that really works. Just read the comments at Amazon.
The interesting thing is that some people use it also for wrinkles. How's it possible that it works? Well, I'm not completely sure, but I would say that the collagen that is inside of the cream simply fills out and smoothens the skin the same way. If you think about it, wrinkles are practically the same problem - you simply have to fill them out. You can think of wrinkles and stretch marks as little craters that need to be filled out not to stand out from the rest of the skin.
Creams of this nature, if they are done right and with the correct natural ingredients inside, can really do a good job with also moisturizing your skin and making it more elastic. Elasticity is one of the keys to a young and healthy looking skin I think everybody dreams of.
What are the mostly affected areas where you can get stretch marks? It depends from person to person and on a lot of other factors, but basically we can say that most people get them on:
- breasts
- arms and even armpits
- stomach - in the area of hips and waist; usually bellow the bellybutton
- back
- thighs
Please note that I didn't name these areas in the order of their frequency of occurence. If you are interested to read more on each specific affected areas with stretch mark scars, please have a look at the right hand column for the related articles links.
Anyway, let's talk about stretch marks on stomach a little bit more in detail.
Are your stretch marks red? Are you pregnant or not?
A lot of people get scared when they first find out about their stretch marks. The main reason is that when they are new, they are a lot more visible. The color is usually red or a little bit violaceous and they seem to be pretty deep. If you touch them you can clearly feel the little craters they create.
As these bad and not good looking scars get older, they lose on the color intensity and become less and less visible. The color becomes rather white and the depth of the craters is not the significant any more.
If you find stretch marks on stomach and you are not pregnant or after pregnancy, the most common reason you got them was due to a rapid gain on weight during the last few weeks or months.
On the other side, a lot more frequent cause of these skin defects is the preriod of time when you expect a baby. Can you prevent it? In most cases the answer would be yes. However, you need to do something for it as well. Find a good anti-stretch marks cream and apply it daily on your belly. Your skin will thus be getting the additional and necessary elasticity it will need as your baby will be on it's way of developement inside your matrix.
