The Biology of Scar Treatments
What can scar creams actually do? A scar is the result 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 healed 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 lay down collagen fibres (a protein which is naturally synthesized by the body) to reconnect the skin tissues and this commonly results in a noticeable scar.
After the wound has healed, the scar continues to change as new collagen is formed and new blood vessels are created. This is the reason why most scars will disappear and improve in appearance 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 ointments, creams, patches of silicone and products made with vitamins, botanical extracts, and biological ingredients that are designed to improve the healing of scars, help the scar treatment with the reduction and make scars less evident.
Not all Scar Treatment Creams are Alike
Natural skin care in the healing of wounds or injuries is a sequence that entails coordinated orchestration between the many cells, organs and products of the defensive system that do the wonderful job of keeping our natural integrity.
Platelets and inflammatory agents are the first to arrive at an injuredsite and provide key functions and ’signals’ necessary for the influx of connective tissue cells and a new blood supply. This stage is called inflammatory phase and is characterized by redness, swelling, heat and pain.
The presence of wound macrophages is a marker that the inflammatory stage is nearing the end and a proliferative stage is beginning. Lymphocytes (white blood cells that aid the body fight infection) come into the wound area at a later stage.
Natural Serum Key to Scar Benefits
A mucin secreted by land snails is being researched due to its healing properties. A complex compound of molecules that comprise copper-haemocyanin, glycoprotein enzymes, proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans and oligoelements that collaborate 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, promotes rapid wound re-oxygenation for better collagen creation. And the enzymes in the natural compound present “collagenase activity” which helps to digest or dissolve damaged proteins.
A new scar cream solution is now available to treat all kinds of skin blemishes. Elaborated with natural ingredients, BioSkinCare gives you the option of a scar treatment that actually regenerates new skin.
- Kathleen LeRoi
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