subject: Eliminate Stretch Marks Easily With Microdermabrasion [print this page] A different kind of scar that is much harder to remove on the skin is stretch marks. This scar is usually of a different color than your regular skin, and it is caused by tearing of the underlying layer of the skin as opposed to the regular scar that forms on the surface. This is of course caused by too much stretching of the skin during specific times in a person's life.
Some of the common causes of the marks are during pregnancy or during adolescence when the body grows really quick and the skin is not able to cope up with the rapid growth. In addition to the rapid growth of the body, these stages in life are often accompanied by various hormonal changes which can have an effect on how the skin reacts to different stresses on the body.
When the skin stretches too far, the first layer that tears is the dermis, as this is less elastic than the epidermal layer. Tears in the dermis also cause veins in this area to rupture, thus causing blood to leak out giving the wounds a red to purple color. These are usually signs that stretch marks will form sometime in the future.
Since tears are due to excessive stretching, it would obviously produce irregular wounds that are much harder for the body to repair. Because of this, it would be susceptible to deposition of collagen and the formation of a permanent scar that is of a different color than your normal skin. Hormone imbalances on the body are also a factor that may add to the formation of stretch marks.
These ensuring scars that will form will obviously be on the deeper layer of the skin as the wounds formed are on this layer. Unfortunately, this also makes it harder to eliminate these scars through conventional methods such as exfoliation. You will need to take a deeper approach so that you can reach these scars.
Microdermabrasion is one method that works similarly to exfoliation but works a lot deeper. This is because it involves removing the outermost layer of the skin so that the deeper layers are exposed. This way, scar tissue deposited in this area can easily be reached and removed.
One downside to this method is that it will leave your skin raw for quite some time as the outermost layer of the skin will be removed. It will take your body several weeks to months before you will be able to regenerate the lost layer of skin. The good thing about this is that once the skin regenerates, almost no traces of your stretch marks will remain.
Most of the time, there is little tat you can do to prevent stretch marks from forming on your skin. This is because you cannot control how your body grows or how far your skin can stretch. Microdermabrasion is an effective method of eliminating these marks that you were unable to prevent as they physically remove any traces of scar tissue that may have formed.
