Scar Reduction

Hydroxy acids, like salicylic acid and glycolic acid, are widely used as exfoliating agents and for skin peels. They eliminate devitalized skin cells and also loosen and slowly reduce or dissolve skin lesions like stretch marks, age spots, keloid scars, surgical scars, burn scars, acne scars, moles, skin tags, and sun damage marks.

The secret of hydroxy acid’s effects is that your healthy, flawless skin has an elevated resistance to such acids. In contrast, most skin injuries have less structural integrity and are more easily broken down by the acids. The repeated use of such acids over periods of a month or longer slowly reduces and even eliminates most skin lesions. This is essentially a modification of normal skin peel procedures where a very strong hydroxy acid (or other peeling agents like TCA or phenol) are used as skin peels. Such methods work very well under ideal circumstances. However, hydroxy acids can be very irritating if the subsequent healing reaction of the skin is insufficient to fully heal the acid-treated skin. If there is too little skin rebuilding, then the peeling agent can cause further scarring or inflammation.

Skin Abrasion Also Accelerates Scar Reduction

Methods that mildly abrade skin like microdermabrasion and subcision (needling) also are useful in accelerating scar reduction in concert with Hydroxy Acids. Some old scars are really hard and persistent and physical breakdown allows the hydroxy acids to start dissolving the scars. For raised or flat scars, microdermabrasion works well. For depressed scars, like pitted acne scars, subcision with needles is usually performed by estheticians to break up the deeply buried scar tissue.

Reduce Scars with Skin Remodeling

The elimination or reduction of scars, blemishes, and stretch marks from the skin depends on a mechanism called “skin remodeling”. The skin is designed to cure wounds quickly to prevent blood loss and infection. Scars are manufactured from a rapidly formed “collagen glue” that the body deposits into an injured area for protection and strength. In perfect skin healing, the wounded skin is rapidly closed, then the healed area is slowly reconstructed to eliminate the original collagen scars and blend the skin area into surrounding skin. Scar collagen is eliminated and replaced with a mixture of skin cells and invisible collagen fibers. This skin remodeling can continue in a skin area for ten years. In children the remodeling rate is elevated and scars are often rapidly eliminated from injured skin areas. But as we reach adulthood, this rate diminishes and small scars can remain for years. One way to accelerate 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 processes rebuild the skin area. A second method is to use skin healing accelerators that increase the body’s biological healing processes to obtain an even better final result.

Now you can eliminate skin discolorations, scars and imperfections thanks to a new skin care solution elaborated with biological ingredients that regenerate your skin.

- Cynthia Alleyne