The Biology of Scar Treatments
What can scar products actually do? A scar is the result of our own body curing 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 below the skin, rebuilding becomes more complicated. Our bodies lay down collagen fibres (a protein which is naturally 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 made and new blood vessels are created. This is the reason why many scars will disappear and improve in appearance over a period of two years following a wound. However, some visible evidence of a wound will remain as hair follicles and sweat glands do not grow back.
How Can Scar Products Improve The Healing of my Wounds?
There are many scar healing creams, patches of silicone, ointments and products made with vitamins, herbal extracts, and natural ingredients that are designed to improve the curing 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 curing of wounds or injuries is a process that entails harmonized orchestration between the various cells, organs and products of the immune system that do the masterful job of maintaining our natural integrity.
Platelets and inflammatory agents are the first to arrive at an injuredsite and give key functions and 'signals' necessary for the influx of connective tissue cells and a new blood supply. This stage is named inflammatory phase and is characterized by redness, heat, 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 help the body combat 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 comprise glycoprotein enzymes, copper-haemocyanin, proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans and oligoelements that collaborate to repair skin and affect every stage of the process that repairs skin damage and leads to minimum scarring or scarless healing.
In the inflammatory stage the copper-haemocyanin in the snail secretion, enhances rapid wound re-oxygenation for better collagen formation. And the enzymes in the natural ingredient present "collagenase activity" which helps to digest or dissolve flawed proteins.
A new scar cream treatment is now available to help you to improve 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