Avoiding stretch marks should be a goal for any woman going through pregnancy, body builder, growing teenager, etc. During these phases the body suffers extreme growth and the skin is pushed beyond its limit, resulting in internal scarring or stretch marks.

Body builders have a choice in whether or not they want to put on 20 more pounds of muscle, but women that are going through pregnancy and growing adolescents have no such alternative. Since they must grow, their only feasible option is to give their skin improved elasticity.

Moisturizing your skin with a chemical based product will slightly improve the skin's elasticity. However, the best method for preventing stretch marks is to supply the skin with an ingredient that will stimulate your body to produce new collagen and elastin fibres at a quick rate. In other words, supply the body with more of the proteins it naturally uses to heal striae.

Collagen and Elastin Help Heal Stretch Marks

Collagen is the building block of the skin, a protein that confers its binding nature. Elastin is also a protein found in the body and, as the name implies, it confers skin its elasticity. People with low levels of collagen and elastin are more susceptible to striae than those with higher levels.

The solution is easy. Help your body augment its levels of elastin and collagen, and you will radically optimize your skin's ability to stretch without tearing. Since very small tears in overtaxed skin are the origin of stretch marks, avoiding the tear means avoiding the striae.

A natural substance that quickly repairs injured skin and that has proven to heal stretch marks is being gathered from snails. This ingredient has the same natural activators found in your body's own reconstructive mechanisms. It helps avoid and eliminate stretch marks while triggering and controlling an orderly production of collagen and elastin.

With regular use a cream containing natural ingredients such as Rose Hip Oil, Olive oil derivatives or snail serum, can digest damaged cells, dissolve skin lesions, reduce and even eliminate all traces of stretch marks. It can also destroy pathogens, optimize elasticity, and enhance the skin's moisture retention capability.

Using a product rich in collagen and elastin can repair your skin naturally.