The Biology of Scar Treatments
What can scar creams actually do? A scar is the consequence of our own body healing a wound or injury inflicted to our skin or other tissues. Damage to the external layer of the skin is healed by regenerating the tissue, and in these cases, scarring is slight. When damage affects the thick layer of tissue beneath the skin, regenerating becomes more complicated. Our organisms accumulate collagen fibres (a protein which is organically produced by the body) to reconnect the skin tissues and this usually results in an evident 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 many scars will fade and improve in look over a period of two years following an injury. However, some visible evidence of an injury will remain as hair follicles and sweat glands do not grow back.
How Can Scar Products Improve The Healing of my Injuries?
There are many scar healing creams, ointments, patches of silicone and products elaborated with vitamins, herbal extracts, and natural ingredients that are designed to improve the healing of scars, help the scar treatment with the reduction and make scars less noticeable.
Not all Scar Treatment Solutions are Alike
Natural skin care in the healing of wounds or injuries is a process that entails harmonized orchestration between the various cells, organs and products of the defensive system that do the wonderful job of maintaining our natural integrity.
Platelets and inflammatory cells are the first to arrive at an injuredsite and give key functions and 'signals' necessary for the influx of supportive tissue cells and a new blood supply. This phase is called inflammatory phase and is characterized by redness, heat, swelling and pain.
The arrival of wound macrophages is a marker that the inflammatory phase is nearing the end and a proliferative phase is commencing. 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 abilities. An intricate compound of molecules that include proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans, copper-haemocyanin, glycoprotein enzymes and oligoelements that contribute to heal skin and affect every phase of the process that repairs skin injuries and leads to minimum scarring or scarless healing.
In the inflammatory phase the copper-haemocyanin in the snail secretion, enhances rapid wound re-oxygenation for better collagen creation. And the enzymes in the natural compound present "collagenase activity" which helps to digest or dissolve flawed proteins.
A new scar cream treatment is now available to help you to treat all kinds of skin imperfections. Elaborated with biological ingredients, BioSkinCare gives you the option of a scar treatment that actually regenerates new skin.
Published January 18th, 2008
Filed in Women