When I was thinking of store bought creams that get rid of stretch marks, I was initially thinking about products that I would buy in the nearby shopping center, health center or drugstores but lets face it even though you can’t see an online shop it’s still there isn’t it and nearly every product for stretch mark removal that can be purchased in your locality can also be found online, maybe there are few skin products that this doesn’t apply to, but I seriously doubt it.

To continue with this theme a little longer, my wife has a big company name catalog which she can buy from when she chooses, once again although you can’t see it is still a store and when I think about how many catalogs come through the mail daily trying to get you to buy clothing, a skin care product, vitamins and minerals for your health, organic skin care products and so for the sake of this article I shall consider a store as any retail supplier where you can receive a stretch mark cream or lotion once you have paid for it.

In previous articles I have discussed the benefits of Shea butter, coconut oil, olive oil, flax seed oil and bio oil to prevent stretch marks, so there is no need to consider these here. Instead I will take a look at some of the top creams in no particular order though.

Body Shape is a valuable stretch mark treatment. It contains different features than many other creams and uses a unique liposome release system method previously shown to be successful for wrinkles and cellulite. This product offers a free trial and is guaranteed to work. Barmon stretch mark cream contains cocoa butter, Vitamin E and lanolin and has been extremely popular for many years. This cream also comes with a guarantee.

Revitol stretch mark cream is also very effective, safe, works fast, and is reasonably priced. Ingredients include, skin healers such as Squalene Oil and DL-Panthenol. Revitol is also a useful skin care product for other scars and cellulite. The hundred percent money back guarantee is valid for six months.

Trilastin-SR by EC Research is the cream chosen by some of my daughter’s friends and they’ve all been really impressed with the results. Ingredients of this cream include soy protein, beeswax, hydrolysed collagen and elastin all known to improve the look and feel of skin. This product also offers a solid money back guarantee and was featured on a Tyra Banks Show. This I consider to be the best of store bought creams that get rid of stretch marks.

Is it possible to get rid of stretch marks? This is the question forever being posed not only in our household but probably in many others too. My dear wife is concerned about them as is my daughter who is having her fourth baby. In my wife’s case I believe it to be a fuss over nothing, well especially if she is worrying about what I might think. I love her exactly as she is and anyway my eye site is so bad, I probably wouldn’t see a stretch mark if it bit me on the nose.

I can understand my daughters concerns about stretch marks and her desire to find a stretch mark cream or other skin care product to remove them, after all she is young and fashions these days seem to be about revealing as much as possible. It is so much easier if you are a man, for starters the only sort of hair removal I have to worry about is a quick daily shave and what’s on my head, well most of it has removed itself, problem solved.

For women though these things are so much more important and scars are considered embarrassing and unquestionably ugly. They are usually caused by spurts of growth in the teenage years, weight lifting and bodybuilding, pregnancy or when you have lost a lot of weight. Some people are wondering if there is a cream to get rid of scars others would like to know if is there an operation to get rid of stretch marks. It has not always been easy in the past to prevent or remove stretch marks. However with much more emphasis on nutrition these days and advances in science to produce a new wave of stretch mark cream, things look more hopeful.

One such product for stretch mark removal was highlighted on the Tyra Banks show, a stretch mark cream called Trilastin SR. This product claims that in a variety of ways it can be proactive in repairing skin to remove and prevent stretch marks.

There have been many reviews that support the claims made for Trilastin and the website has many testimonials that you can read. The ingredients of promising product for stretched skin and the resulting scars are collagen and elastin, soy protein concentrate and ten essential amino acids. The company claim that you will notice a significant difference within three to four weeks. Why not visit the website and see what you think? And while you are looking around the Internet you might also be interested in the advances which have been made with Glycobiology and cell to cell communication because this also offers a way to help the skin repair itself. So if you would ask me: “is it possible to get rid of stretch marks?” I would have to say yes, but it is a lot easier to prevent them than to remove them.

This is the second article on pregnancy stretch marks. The first one probably was not to informative as I spent my time and word quota, having a good moan about my wife and daughters obsession with stretch marks, skin care, pregnancy and past pregnancies and how all this was affecting my time on the golf course.

I intend, and intention is everything is it not, to make this article more interesting an informative, so here we go. Pregnancy stretch marks materialize as raised red or purple welts, generally on the breasts and stomach, though they may develop on the lower back and legs. Gradually many will lighten to white welts.

Usually 75% of women get stretch marks during pregnancy, (notably my wife and daughter, well I couldn’t resist having just a little dig, could I) most often in the sixth or seventh month. They come about because the stomach is very distended or the skin stretched over a period of time. Your pregnancy and the stretching of the skin, causes the skin’s support structure, elastin and collagen, to break down.

The skin is built up in three layers, the outer layer is the epidermis, the middle layer is the dermis, and the inner layer is called the subcutaneous. This is where fatty tissue is accumulated. How do I know so much about pregnancy stretch marks? Well just in case you have not been following previous articles, how to prevent stretch marks and how to get rid of stretch marks are the main topics of conversation in our house between my wife and daughter these days.

My job is to research pregnancy stretch marks for them, to give them something to talk about with their morning cup of coffee and afternoon tea and when out shopping for maternity and baby clothes. I guess you’ve got the picture by now.

The dermis is the skins support and it is kept firm by its structure, collagen. This is the layer in which stretch marks come about. Healing the damage caused by stretch marks must take place at this level. Something that will interest my wife and daughter, apparently there is a hereditary factor with pregnancy stretch marks. If your mother gained stretch marks throughout her pregnancy, you are likely to as well.

As my daughter is in her first trimester of this pregnancy, maintaining moisture with a good skin care product for stretch marks will improve the elasticity of her skin and prevent further stretch marks forming. It is good that she recognizes the need to drink adequate water to maintain water balance from inside out. Pregnancy stretch marks need not be a problem, nor should getting to the golf course tomorrow, especially after my hard work today.