Scar Products
by Cynthia Alleyne
Hydroxy acids, such as salicylic acid and glycolic acid, are extensively used as exfoliating agents and for skin peels. They eliminate dead skin cells and also loosen and slowly reduce or dissolve skin lesions such as stretch marks, moles, skin tags, acne scars, age spots, burn scars, surgical scars, keloid scars, and sun damage marks.
The secret of hydroxy acid's actions is that your healthy, flawless skin has an elevated resistance to such acids. On the other hand, most skin lesions have less structural integrity and are more easily broken down by the acids. The repeated use of such acids over periods of one month or longer slowly reduces and even dissolves most skin lesions. This is essentially a modification of normal skin peel procedures where a very strong hydroxy acid (or other peeling agents such as TCA or phenol) are applied as skin peels. Such methods work very well under ideal circumstances. However, hydroxy acids can be highly irritating if the subsequent healing response of the skin is insufficient to fully heal the acid-treated skin. If there is too little skin rejuvenating, then the peeling agent can cause further scarring or inflammation.
Skin Abrasion Also Accelerates Scar Reduction
Methods that mildly abrade skin such as microdermabrasion and subcision (needling) also are useful in accelerating scar reduction in collaboration with Hydroxy Acids. Some old scars are very hard and persistent and physical breakdown allows the hydroxy acids to start reducing the scars. For raised or flat scars, microdermabrasion works well. For depressed scars, such as pitted acne scars, subcision with needles is usually performed by estheticians to break up the deeply buried scar tissue.
Skin Remodeling - A Solution for Reducing Scars
The elimination or reduction of scars, lesions, and stretch marks from the skin depends on a process known as "skin remodeling". The skin is designed to cure wounds quickly to avoid blood loss and infection. Scars are made from a rapidly formed "collagen glue" that the body deposits into an injured area for protection and strength. In perfect skin healing, the damaged skin is rapidly closed, then the healed area is slowly rejuvenated to eliminate the residual collagen scars and blend the skin area into nearby skin. Scar collagen is removed and replaced with a combination of skin cells and fine collagen fibers. This skin remodeling can continue in a skin area for 10 years. In children the remodeling rate is high and scars are usually rapidly removed from damaged skin areas. But as we reach adulthood, this rate decelerates and small scars can remain for years. One way to speed up remodeling is to produce a small amount of controlled skin damage with a needle, laser, or other procedures, and then let the body's heal mechanisms rebuild the skin area. A second method is to use skin healing accelerators that increase the body's natural healing mechanisms to obtain an even better final result.
Now you can get rid of imperfections, scars and skin discolorations thanks to a new skin care product elaborated with biological ingredients that rejuvenate your skin.
Published January 2nd, 2008
Filed in Beauty, Health, Women
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