Many stretch marks products on the market warn you there is no immediate and quick solution to prevent or treat stretch marks. Nevertheless, they promptly add a sales pitch that subtly denies what they just said, 'you are better off doing something to prevent them.'

Moreover, a new false promise: 'A wonderful product, such as our Stretch Mark Prevention Lotion, will significantly diminish the appearance of stretch marks, but we cannot insure they will be gone completely.'

Moreover, as they can't abstain from their own evil giggling, they will add that this is finally, 'a proven realistic result' . Advertisers think they are clever enough to try to make you believe the suite, 'when using our product on stretch marks, best results are obtained on new scars that are still red and elevated. For old stretch marks it will take a long time before you see results from our product.'

Many women only start seeing what other women tell them about stretch marks when they just become pregnant. Unfortunately, just a little after noticing the glee that sparkles in their eyes and glows on their face as a mother to be, they might remember something a sister, a friend, or a relative had told them about her pregnancy. Then her exact words may start haunting their mind: "I am sick to death of these stripes I am getting all over my body!"

If these words are still in your thoughts, you simply have to do your own research on stretch mark products before it is too late for your expanding belly. This is probably why you are reading this and browsing the Internet for information.

The bad news you will find is that there are too many promising creams. With these findings, you can only wonder if there is any truth behind them. Do they really prevent and heal stretch marks? What is the best product for me?

And Hopefully, You Will Find the Dark, Daunting FactsTruth!

You might have already been warned there is no immediate and fantastic cream to to treat or prevent stretch marks. Most lotions and techniques you see out there are practically useless. And after all the nonsense know for sure others pay for, you're not ready to buy any of those 'clever' concoctions, be it 'botanical', 'herbal', 'pharmaceutical', or the new fuzzy 'cosmeceutics' category, are you?

We will at least conclude you wish not to fall prey to the same nonsense. So, bear with us and hold this in the back of your mind while we search together for truth in the claims made by the many different treatments being advertised.

First, we will dismiss outright all those claiming, 'This is a miracle in a bottle' and others similar. Our time and effort is better focused on the ones warning us, 'not to get caught up in false promises, for stretch marks will never be gone completely, because stretch marks are in essence scars and are thus extremely difficult to eradicate completely.'

The Absolute Truth About Stretch Marks

The full truth is stretch marks are visible scars . They form in areas of skin damage caused when skin is not able to withstand over-stretching while collagen and elastin fibers reach tensile capacity. They weaken and ultimately fail resulting in tears in the dermal skin layer. They appear on thin skin surfaces as visibly curled stripes and are actually bands of elastin broken beneath the dermis. Essentially, stretch marks are scars that have formed from the inside out, rather than scarring from external wounds.

Scanning electron microscopy shows extensive tangles of fine, curled, elastic fibers with a random arrangement. This arrangement is in contrast to normal skin, which has elastic, thick fibers with a regular distribution. Elastin is an elastic fiber protein that coils and recoils like a spring within the connective tissue and accounts for the elasticity of structures such as the skin's lungs, tendons, intestines, heart, blood vessels, and ligaments. Elastin functions in connective tissues together with collagen. Whereas collagen provides rigidity, elastin provides elasticity to connective tissues.

Stretch marks occur frequently during pregnancy, or when going through other hormonal imbalances. It may surprise you to know that in the United States, it is estimated that 40% of adolescent males, 70% of adolescent women and 90% of pregnant women have stria.

People who have fair to light skin typically have pink-tinged stretch marks, while the same marks on darker skin tones tend to have deeper pigmentation than the tissues surrounding them. Discoloration from stretch marks does fade over time, but regrettably, their striated appearance rarely returns to its original smooth look.

It is speculated that the way each person's skin heals is a good indicator of the depth and severity of stretch marks and how they may eventually appear. A person whose skin heals well with minimal scarring can expect less obvious stretch marks . Skin that heals poorly (or slowly) or tends to develop raised or thickened scars can generally expect stretch marks to be more pronounced and obvious.

Stretch marks are caused by TEARS in a thinned or technically atrophic skin, with fine dermal collagen bundles arranged in straight lines parallel to the surface, created by your own body to heal those tears. Let me repeat that: stretch marks are scar tissue created by your body to heal damage caused by overstretching skin. Basically they are the response produced by your body to heal itself as soon as possible and with its own resources.

Once the scars are formed and prominent because of their depth, length, discoloration, and texture it is very difficult to get rid of them.

A Surprising Solution from Nature's Wisdom

Fortunately, there is a complete & balanced solution for stretch mark prevention and treatment. One packed with antioxidants, collagen, elastin boosters, enzymes, and cell communicating ingredients that contribute to orchestrate the intricate balance between the degradation of scar tissues within the dermis and cells that have become damaged by overstretching and the use of their constitutive amino-acids for the reproduction of new cells and all the crucial structural elements of healthy skin. It is not a chemical, man made drug, clever concoction of isolates, pharmaceutical discovery, herb, moisturizing botanical oil or extract designed in a laboratory or cosmetic industry. No. It is a natural complex compound of biologically active molecules that is already the most balanced and complete solution created by a living creature to protect and fully recover its skin when damaged.

In addition, although this creature is in an evolutionary stage different from humans, nevertheless its skin is made of the same fundamental elements we find in human skin: collagen, elastin and proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans. Glycosaminoglycans and Proteoglycans are the water holding molecules in the skin responsible for providing binding, hydration and swelling pressure to tissues enabling them to withstand compression and stretching forces, which thus prevent tearing and scarring of the deep layers of the dermis.

The stretch mark prevention and treatment lotion made with this biological solution is natural, not some isolate derived or extracted from it. In addition, it is not only effective for preventing stretch marks but is also safe during pregnancy and postpartum for it is totally compatible with living cells.

The product is available in two versions. One plain to prevent stretch marks, which is best used to treat recently, formed stretch marks. The second is a home microdermabrasion treatment with embedded with micro-crystals to erode stretch marks that are rough and older on the surface as they help to breakdown or exfoliate damaged skin physically while massaging the crystals, and thereby facilitate the penetration of the cream deeper within the skin.