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Wipe Out that Scar from Your Skin

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Every wound goes through a healing process.  Some wounds, however, do not heal completely and lead to scars. Scars are marks left behind at the site of wounds. Scars may be due to a number of reasons.  They may be of different sizes, shapes, and appearances.  The appearance of scars also depends on the type of wound.  Injuries falls, cuts, burns, pregnancy, and surgeries can affect the type of scars formed and left at the end of the healing process.

Though scars are harmless, they look bad on your skin. They remind you of the injury or the disastrous event time and again. Anybody who looks at your scars will enquire about the causative event. This is even more traumatic.  Scars can be red, hard, elevated, and cause great pain and itching.

There are a number of remedies that help you reduce the appearance of scars or prevent their striking appearance while they are forming. Sagging skin and wrinkles are a result of the loss of collagen and elastin from the skin.  Eat foods that encourage the production of collagen and elastin in your skin. Non-vegetarian foods are good sources of these two youth-giving substances.

Stock up on vitamins like Vitamin E, Vitamin A, and Vitamin C. These are rich in antioxidants that help fight free radicals. Free radicals cause early skin aging.

Remain hydrated. If your body has adequate water, your skin looks taut and young, whereas dehydration leads to dry and wrinkled skin. If you want to be healed fast, drink adequate water or other watery drinks like juices, soups, and broths. Refrain from dehydrating beverages like alcoholic drinks and caffeinated drinks such as tea and coffee as they sap your skin of water and make it look dull and shriveled.  Scars won’t heal quickly if you keep on gulping these drinks.

To reduce the symptoms associated with scars, try Kelo-cote. It is a water-proof, gas permeable membrane that acts like an extra layer of skin. It softens and flattens the scar and maintains the moisture balance and elasticity of the adjacent skin.

Women go through a lot of changes after pregnancy.  Apart from caring about the newborn, she has to deal with the body alternations that a big phase like pregnancy brings about.  After carrying her baby for 9 months within her womb and delivering it finally, a woman’s skin sags after being stretched for so long.  Skin is not elastic that will bounce back to its original position after being released.  A long duration of stretching produces stretch marks on a woman’s body.

Stretch marks are ugly unsightly marks on the skin which are either red or white in color. They make your skin look dull and aged. Taut skin reflects youth and stretched skin reflects aging. And no woman would want to look old.  A woman’s skin loses elasticity after long months of pregnancy.  Stretch marks are irreversible and cannot be completely cured. However, measures can be taken to alleviate the prominence of these ugly-looking marks.