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 known as striae) all over your breasts and hips. These striae commonly start out as highly discolored patches of scar tissue. They are often reddish or purplish in color. As time goes by, they may fade out to a silvery white, but their unpleasantly rippled appearance will remain the same.

Avoiding pregnancy stretch marks is as simple as enhancing the skin's capability to stretch. Striae are caused when the skin is exposed to quick, strong stretching forces, resulting in tiny tears and little rips. These tears heal, and are substituted by scar tissue. These rippled ridges of pale scar tissue are what we call stretch marks. Improve the skin's capability to stretch, and the rips and tears will never happen in the first place.

The body has its own mechanism for avoiding pregnancy stretch marks. It sends collagen and elastin to the rescue. Collagen and elastin are two proteins which make up our skin. They confer skin its capability to stretch. Increase the levels of collagen and elastin in the body, and you'll endow your skin with the ability to stretch further, naturally.

Natural Ingredients Erase Stretch Marks

Instead of applying a simple moisturizer into your skin two times a day, rub in a cream that has components that will stimulate the synthesis of these essential proteins. Many lotions include 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 add 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 apply a strong anti-stretch mark cream, use a cream that has the ability to activate your skin's own renewal systems: a cream that will activate the replacement of flawed skin cells with new healthy skin cells from within.

Creams that contain natural ingredients such as snail serum utilize natural activators from your body's own regenerative processes to prevent and erase stretch marks. They stimulate and regulate an orderly production of collagen, elastin and GAGs.

While 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 gently dissolves skin lesions, reducing and even eliminating all signs of stretch marks. It also optimizes skin's elasticity, elevating density and moisture retention capability.