The Biology of Scar Treatments
What can scar products actually do? A scar is the consequence of our own body curing a wound or injury inflicted to our skin or other tissues. Damage to the outside layer of the skin is cured by regenerating the tissue, and in these instances, scarring is slight. When damage affects the thick layer of tissue below the skin, regenerating becomes more complicated. Our organisms lay down collagen fibres (a protein which is organically synthesized by the body) to reconnect the skin tissues and this commonly results in a noticeable scar.
After the wound has cured, the scar continues to change as new collagen is formed and new blood vessels are created. This is the reason why many scars will fade and improve in look over a period of two years after an injury. However, some noticeable evidence of an injury will remain as hair follicles and sweat glands do not grow back.
How Can Scar Products Improve The Healing of my Injuries?
There are several scar healing patches of silicone, ointments, creams and products made with vitamins, botanical extracts, and biological ingredients that are designed to improve the curing of scars, help the scar treatment with the fading and make scars less noticeable.
Not all Scar Treatment Creams are Alike
Natural skin care in the curing of wounds or injuries is a process that entails harmonized orchestration between the many cells, organs and products of the immune system that do the masterful job of keeping our natural integrity.
Platelets and inflammatory cells are the first to arrive at a damagedsite and give key functions and 'signals' needed for the influx of connective tissue cells and a new blood supply. This stage is called inflammatory phase and is characterized by heat, swelling, redness and pain.
The presence of wound macrophages is a sign that the inflammatory stage is nearing the end and a proliferative stage is commencing. Lymphocytes (white blood cells that help the body combat infection) come into the wound area at a later stage.
Natural Serum Key to Scar Benefits
A mucin secreted by land snails is being studied due to its healing abilities. An intricate compound of molecules that comprise proteoglycans, copper-haemocyanin, glycosaminoglycans, glycoprotein enzymes and oligoelements that contribute to repair skin and affect every stage of the process that repairs skin injuries and leads to minimum scarring or scarless healing.
In the inflammatory stage the copper-haemocyanin in the snail secretion, promotes rapid wound re-oxygenation for better collagen formation. And the enzymes in the natural compound present "collagenase activity" which contributes to digest or dissolve damaged proteins.
A new scar cream treatment is now available to help you to improve all kinds of skin imperfections. Made with biological ingredients, BioSkinCare gives you the alternative of a scar treatment that actually regenerates new skin.
Published January 18th, 2008
