Accurately speaking, there are no products that remove stretch marks, and there are a large number of products that dilute and repair stretch marks on the market. It's hard to say whether it has any effect.
Repairing stretch marks mainly depends on three points:
Stretch marks are red or pale pink in the early stage of formation. The main formation principle is that the fiber cells are denatured due to the increase of glucocorticoid, and the fiber layer is stretched and finally broken! Some tissues were damaged. At this time, white blood cells can clearly identify the damaged tissue through verification reaction.
Common anti-inflammatory ingredients: Myrrha alcohol, Centella asiatica extract, oxytetracycline, etc.
It is also related to inflammatory reaction. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) will also be aware of harmful substances during the inflammatory reaction, and will also damage the normal tissues and cells of the human body, so it is also necessary to moderately resist oxidation!
Common antioxidant components: tretinoin, vitamin E, vitamin C, etc.
It is necessary to stimulate the regeneration and repair of damaged fibers and epidermis in dermis.
Simply put, the skin with long stretch marks is like this air column. Once stretched too much, elasticity can never be restored. In fact, many mothers who have given birth to babies can see this phenomenon immediately. After delivery, the skin in the abdomen is much looser than the healthy skin around, and it has almost lost its elasticity.
Regeneration and repair is to stimulate cell proliferation and activity and promote the synthesis and normalization of extracellular matrix.
It's time to repair the stretch marks.
I have been urging new mothers to repair stretch marks as soon as possible within one year after delivery, because the abdominal lines are still red within one year after delivery, indicating that the effect of self-repair still exists, and the effect of repairing stretch marks during this period is also the best.
Once the repair is delayed, when the lines of stretch marks become silvery scars, the inflammatory reaction disappears, and the corresponding self-repair effect disappears, and the difficulty of repairing stretch marks will increase.
Such as asiaticoside
It can be regarded as the star component of stretch mark repair. Its main function lies not only in its anti-Y (strictness) and anti-oxygen effects, but also in its powerful repair function and the promotion of the proliferation of damaged cells.
The following is the relevant information I found on China HowNet:
In the eighth annual meeting of national burn surgery, asiaticoside in the academic paper published by the Burn Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University can effectively promote the synthesis of cyclin, accelerate cell proliferation and promote wound healing.
At present, it has been proved by clinical medicine that the products of asiaticoside for external use are also used as adjuvant therapy to help repair stretch marks.
In addition, there are asiaticoside extracts, such as allantoin, aspartic acid, sodium hyaluronate and so on. , have a good effect of weakening and repairing stretch marks. Here, I want to mention amino acids in particular. Amino acids are the basic components of protein, with small molecules, good absorption and strong moisture retention, which can maintain skin elasticity and enhance the permeability of effective components.
Several popular pregnancy creams in the market:
Nenfu folic acid pregnancy essence milk
A recent rising star, the online evaluation is quite good. After careful investigation, this brand has been studied by otto hahn Scientific Laboratory, focusing on the core concepts of safety, professionalism and effectiveness, and its products also meet the EWG (American Environmental Working Group) safety certification. The ingredients can be checked in the United States, they are all green, and the safety is quite reassuring.
Its core is folic acid, which is familiar to mothers. Folic acid in skin care products has a strong moisturizing and gentle maintenance effect. Combined with patented active compound essence components such as Centella asiatica and soybean plant extract with purity higher than 95%, it deeply penetrates into the bottom layer of skin, effectively promotes the generation of collagen, and is very beneficial to remodeling lipid barrier and greatly helpful to the prevention and repair of stretch marks. The rest is moisturizing ingredients.
This friend around me has also used it, and according to its description, it does have a good effect. Before giving birth to the baby, her stomach was covered with patterns. Now five months after giving birth, the lines are fading. In addition, she is also very self-disciplined in her daily diet and exercise. At the distance of 1m, there are almost no stretch marks.
Clarins Body Care Oil
The promotion of a treasure's home page is mainly aimed at fighting stretch marks, but its main components are vegetable oil and spices.
From the observation of beauty salons, the European hazelnut oil used in it does have the effect of improving skin dryness. However, there are many shampoo products with such ingredients, and there is no improvement in the display of stretch marks at present.
As the seasoning function of the product, essence does not need to be added too much. Judging from the component safety risk level, it has indeed reached level 5.
White snail oil
And the formula contains a small amount of retinol palmitate, which is an easily absorbed derivative. This ingredient is very irritating and should be avoided when used in stretch marks products.
In terms of skin feeling, the texture is lighter than other oil products, but the fragrance is greater.