Tips to Prevent Stretch Marks
Stretch marks certainly are a symbol of motherhood. For some women, they are blessed and don’t get stretch marks after their pregnancy, while for other women, it can be severe.
Why Do We Get Stretch Marks?
Stretch marks are the result of your skin being pulled apart due to the growth of your stomach. This usually happens due to pregnancy, but can also be caused from excessive weight gain. In severe cases, the second layer of skin can also become damaged creating further deepening of stretch marks.
There are times when stretch marks will fade away following pregnancy, but this is not usually the case once the damage has occurred. Another important fact to mention is that stretch marks are hereditary. If your mother has them, you’re also likely to have them. If you happen to be light complected you’re also more likely to develop stretch marks.
How To Prevent Stretch Marks
Some of the ways to help in preventing stretch marks are common sense ones. For instance, do everything you can to control the amount of weight you gain. When you rapidly increase your weight, the skin stretches too quickly. This creates a breakdown of your bodies dermal structure, which leads to the formation of stretch marks.
Drink plenty of water. I know, that isn’t what you want to hear, but consider the reason behind it. Your body needs hydrated, even more so during pregnancy. Your skin is also being kept hydrated by your drinking plenty of water. The skin becomes more elasticized and stretches like a rubber band so to speak instead of tearing apart.
You can add additional moisturizing by applying coca butter to your skin. Pure cocoa butter will work the best. Although no method has been scientifically proven to prevent stretch marks, countless generations of women all swear by using cocoa butter.
The cocoa beans provide an excellent moisturizer that helps in preventing stretch marks from forming. It is recommended that for best results, apply it twice a day. Just be sure that you’re using 100% pure cocoa butter.
By applying a moisturizer to your skin, you can go a long way toward preventing stretch marks.
So, if you’ve been looking for a way to prevent stretch marks, try these tips. The small amount of effort required can pay huge dividends down the road in helping to prevent stretch marks.
