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Treating Scars the Biological Way

by Kathleen LeRoi

What can scar products actually do? A scar is the consequence of our own body healing a wound or injury done to our skin or other tissues. Damage to the external layer of the skin is cured by rebuilding the tissue, and in these cases, scarring is slight. When damage affects the thick layer of tissue beneath the skin, rebuilding becomes more complicated. Our bodies accumulate collagen fibres (a protein which is naturally synthesized by the body) to reconnect the skin tissues and this usually results in an evident scar.

After the wound has cured, the scar continues to change as new collagen is made 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 following an injury. However, some noticeable evidence of an injury will remain as hair follicles and sweat glands do not grow back.

How Can Scar Creams Improve The Healing of my Wounds?

There are several scar healing creams, ointments, patches of silicone and solutions elaborated with vitamins, botanical extracts, and biological ingredients that are designed to boost the healing of scars, help the scar treatment with the fading and make scars less evident.

Not all Scar Treatment Solutions are Alike

Natural skin care in the healing of wounds or injuries is a process that entails coordinated orchestration between the various cells, organs and products of the defensive system that do the wonderful job of maintaining our biological integrity.

Platelets and inflammatory agents are the first to arrive at a damagedsite and provide key functions and 'signals' needed for the arrival of connective tissue cells and a new blood supply. This stage is called inflammatory phase and is characterized by heat, redness, swelling and pain.

The arrival 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 aid the body combat infection) come into the wound area at a later stage.

Natural Serum Key to Scar Benefits

A mucin produced by land snails is being studied due to its healing abilities. An intricate compound of molecules that include glycoprotein enzymes, proteoglycans, copper-haemocyanin, glycosaminoglycans and oligoelements that contribute to heal 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 mucins, enhances rapid wound re-oxygenation for better collagen creation. And the enzymes in the biological ingredient present "collagenase activity" which contributes to digest or dissolve damaged proteins.

A new scar cream treatment is now available to help you to treat all kinds of skin imperfections. Made with natural ingredients, BioSkinCare gives you the alternative of a scar treatment that actually regenerates new skin.

Published January 18th, 2008

Filed in Beauty, Health, Women