Skin care is more than just about making your skin look younger. As a matter of fact, skin care is a much more global term that includes treating aging problems and skin issues such as acne, scars and stretch marks. This time around let's take a look at skin care creams that treat scars and stretch marks.

Scars and stretch marks can affect any person at any age. Of course, factors such as gender and the extent of the damage will determine the extent of scar tissue. Nevertheless, treating scars and stretch marks is pretty much the same for everyone.

Scar Treatment Creams

Scars are created when the body tries to close an open wound. If the cut caused by a wound is large, then you are likely to develop a permanent scar. However, don't blame accidental cuts for all you scar formation. Acne and burns can also lead to varying degrees of scarring.

Some of the more traditional scar removal methods include surgery, laser treatment, and microdermabrasion. However, some people may choose a different, gentler route to treat these marks. If you're one of those people that would prefer a gentler touch then a natural skin care cream especially designed for scars can be the ideal method to use, especially for facial scars.

But before you go out and purchase just any scar cream, you should make sure that it contains the right ingredients. Ingredients such as Vitamin C and Vitamin A are both essential to healthy skin and scar repair.

Other ingredients such as essential fatty acids (omega-3 and omega-6) help promote the production of new, healthy cells that replace scar tissue. These ingredients can either be incorporated into a natural skin cream or incorporated to your diet.

Snail serum, also known as Helix aspersa muller extract, has also shown remarkable results as a scar removal ingredient. It contains copper peptides, which can boost skin renewal by prompting new capillary formation and triggering the creation of collagen, elastin, and glycosaminoglycans.

Stretch Marks Creams

Did you know that stretch marks are considered a scar? As a matter of fact, stretch marks form as a result of excessive stretching of the skin. Extreme weight gain, growth spurts, and pregnancy push skin to its limits and sometimes, beyond. This over-stretching it what breaks the skin.

Effective stretch marks treatments are usually based on creams that contain certain ingredients. One of the best ingredients against these striae is rose hip seed oil.

Rose hip seed oil has been used for centuries by indigenous tribes in the south of Chile. Its curative properties are partly due to the fact that it is rich in Vitamin A and Vitamin C, and essential fatty acids. Vitamin A helps increase the rate of cell turnover and replace epithelial cells. Vitamin C, on the other hand, encourages the production of collagen and elastin helping improve the appearance of scars

Essential fatty acids are another important component of rose hip oil that is important for the regeneration of healthy skin membranes and the reparation of the skin. In other words, rose hip oil is an ideal treatment for scars, in general.