Think Beauty:Stretch Marks

 

Stretch marks are a skin problem which often pressurizes a woman after pregnancy, they always in the hunt to solve this problem. They are the bands of parallel lines on your skin which differ in colour and texture to your skin colour. Slightly ridge or indention is the typical characteristics of the stretch marks which can be painful or itchy at times. However, they are not the only one who suffers from this "skins spell".Pregnancy is one of the reason but there are also many other reasons causing problems as listed below:

• rapid weight gain or loss
• steroid containing cream, pills or lotion
• comorbid such as Cushing syndrome, Marfan syndrome, Ehlers Danlos or other adrenal gland disorders

Every problem has a solution, similarly, stretch marks too provided you take the right steps to right treatment as follows:

• Tretinoin cream helps to store skin elasticity but not advisable while pregnant or breastfeeding
• Pulsed dye laser therapy encourages the growth of collagen and elastin
• Fractional photothermolysis
• Microdermabrasion
• Excimer laser stimulated melatonin production around the skin

Apart from approaching a medical practitioner to overcome this problem, you also may opt to exercise some home remedies and ways to prevent such skin event as follows:

• regular usage of moisturizer
• apply aloe vera over the stretch marks
• mix 1cup of sugar to 1/4 cup of coconut oil and lemon juice, apply as a paste and scrub over the stretch marks for 10minutes
• apply argan oil over the stretch marks area

Every problem requires effort, one may fail to achieve the solution without proper execution.