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Stretch marks are not life threatening, but they can significantly affect your self-esteem. Stretch marks usually appear around the thighs, hips, abdomen, and the upper arm area. They are the result of pregnancy, growth spurts, or fluctuations in weight due to weight gain or weight loss.

Stretch marks, also known as striae, appear because the skin is pushed beyond its elastic limit. To compensate, the body produces scar tissue to breach the tears that the stretch produces. Stretch marks are initially reddish-purple but eventually turn a silvery-white color.

This scar tissue can be covered up with clothing, for the most part. However, most people that have stretch marks are condemned to spend hot summer months covered in clothing in hopes of keeping their stretch mark problems under wraps.

Preventing Stretch Marks from Appearing

To help prevent the appearance of stretch marks, you must make sure that your skin is at its best. This means that the skin should be able to stretch with great ease to accommodate a change in body size.

Stretch mark prevention is an effective way of avoiding this problem, but to do so you need to use a high quality skin cream that contains elastin and collagen stimulators. These stimulators will encourage the production of elastin and collagen while preventing the appearance of stretch marks.

Another precaution that should be made is to maintain weight lose and weight gain at a steady rate. This will give your skin a chance to stretch gradually without tearing.

How to get rid of Stretch Marks Naturally

Unfortunately, genetics plays a part in the development of stretch marks. In cases like this it feels virtually impossible to avoid getting stretch marks. However, when genetics is in play you need to find a truly effective stretch mark cream capable of getting to the root cause of your affliction.

Search for creams that contain natural ingredients such as snail serum and/or rose hip oil; they are ideal for treating stretch marks. These types of stretch marks creams use biological activators like those of your body's own regenerative processes to eliminate stretch marks. These activators help trigger and control the synthesis of elastin, collagen, and GAGs along with helping replace flawed skin with healthy skin cells.

With regular use (two times a day for a period of time depending on age and depth of the blemishes) these types of creams 'digest' flawed cells, gently dissolve skin lesions, reduce and even erases all signs of stretch marks. They can also destroy pathogens and trigger the regeneration of normal collagen thereby improving elasticity.

Microdermabrasion is also used in treating stretch marks. This isn't a cure-all for stretch marks, so keep that in mind when looking for an effective stretch marks removal method.