Getting Rid Of Stretch Marks

One of my closest friends has recently become a first time mom and yes, she got those dreaded “badges of honor” and wanted to learn how to get rid of stretch marks. Naturally, she came to me because I’d already been through that hell and I figured out the process of getting rid of stretch marks naturally.

Throughout her pregnancy, she was absolutely aglow. This was thanks, in part, to the hormones that her body was releasing so that she could safely carry and successfully nourish the baby. She was also incredibly happy about having a baby, and she was very careful to stay as healthy as possible throughout all of those nine months.

Of course, over the course of her pregnancy, her hormone levels didn’t just give her skin a pink glow; it also caused her body to expand. All of this… growth had a few side-effects though. For one thing, because of her fluctuating hormones, she was far more susceptible to stretch marks on her breasts and belly. I myself got striae all over my butt and on a very small part of my boobs.

After she gave birth and lost most of her baby weight, the stretch marks stayed. This is exactly the same thing that happened to me. And just like me, she was totally unhappy with having almost the same body as pre-baby, but way uglier skin this time around. So she contacted me for help concocting a home remedy to lose stretch marks being that I’m a huge fan of remedies and have already figured out that using these steps will help with getting rid of stretch marks.

Of course, one question that may be on a lot of people’s minds is, “can stretch marks go away in the first place?”

The answer is, yes.

Despite that though, there is still no single hard and fast answer readily available to the question of how to lose stretch marks. Instead, there’s a lot of bad advice, like use cocoa butter or aloe on your skin. It took me months of experimenting with unconventional methods to actually see results. A lot of people sniff around and do research to see what works best for them and I take it one step further by experimenting, testing my results, and tweaking routines and remedies where neccessary.

Now, I know they have procedures –such as laser treatments and dermabrasion- that have also been known to be quite effective. The problem is that i wasn’t terribly impressed with the results and didn’t want to shell out that kind of money.

For people who have stretch marks along their abdomens, tummy tucks are also a great way to hide those stretch marks. The problem with tummy tucks, though, is that since the skin under your belly button (where stretch marks along the abdomen most frequently occur) is removed, even though you probably won’t have any stretch marks anymore, you’ll probably still get some scarring. Plus this wasn’t really going to help me since there’s no way to just cut the skin off of my butt.

People who don’t want to undergo steps as drastic as laser treatment or tummy tucks, first try applying creams and home-made remedies to stretch marks, thinking it’s a  great way to alleviate the problem.

I would suggest you skip all those expensive creams and most home remedies because:

• the active, working ingredients are usually “watered down”
• they’re overpriced
• you can make your own treatments that are much more effective (I’ll teach you how in just a second)
• they usually contain harmful chemicals

DO NOT depend on them because chances are your skin won’t let them penetrate to the damaged layer anyway.

Instead, you need to focus on breaking down scar tissue and regenerating the skin quickly while getting collagen fibers to form correctly (it’s important to avoid having them form incorrectly as that’s what causes the appearance of stretch marks to be shiny and sunken in the first place) as detailed in the Reverse Stretch Marks system.

But, back to the lesson… I need to teach you about how healthy natural foods help prevent a variety of scars…

There is a reason why parents always tell you to eat your vegetables: they’re good for you! And to emphasize that point, did you know that eating lots of green, leafy vegetables, liver, dairy products, and other foods rich in zinc, iron, fiber, and other vitamins and minerals can help you get your stretch marks to fade? This is the single most natural way to help reduce stretch marks, and it’s more effective than most of the lotions on the market designed to do the same thing.

Another great, stretch mark-removing item to add to your diet would be nuts, such as Brazil nuts, pecans, and pumpkin seeds. The zinc in these tasty, high fiber and high energy treats help promote correct healing (as I mentioned earlier, incorrect healing causes collagen to bunch up and give that scar appearance) and prevent infection. Since stretch marks are essentially torn skin tissue (sometimes, when a part of a person’s body over-stretches, the middle layer of skin, or the dermis, can tear, which is how stretch marks happen), this means that zinc is essential to making sure that that tissue heals.

The stretch mark remedy that my friend liked the most though, takes a little more effort to make than simply reaching into the cupboard and smearing it onto the tummy and breasts. What we did was, we took out six vitamin E capsules and four vitamin A capsules, half a cup of olive oil, and one forth cup of Aloe Vera gel, and we combined it all in a blender. My friend placed some of it on her stretch marks and stored the rest in the fridge. She still applies this homemade mixture twice a day, and her stretch marks are becoming less and less red each day.

She is aware, however, that even though the redness is disappearing and the appearance is improving, that this kind of treatment isn’t enough for getting rid of stretch marks to the point that they are undeniably invisible. So, once this mixture we concocted runs out, she’s starting these steps to completely remove her stretch marks so that they are not visible at all.