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Our skin is programmed to heal itself quickly in order to stop loss of blood and infection. In response to injury, the body creates a 'collagen glue' that lends the wounded area immediate strength and protection. In normal healing of the skin, the collagen glue is slowly replaced by healthy cells and blended into surrounding skin.

Scars are always needed to reconnect skin that has been damaged and, therefore, any dermal injury will result in some scarring. Immediately after healing, scars might appear a dark red or pink color but with time will soften, flatten and fade.

The scar healing process may continue in a skin area for up to ten years. In children, the remodeling rate is high and scars heal quickly and are often rapidly eliminated from injured skin areas. Unfortunately, as we age, this remodeling rate decreases.

Keloid scars are actually thick, puckered, itchy scars that grow beyond the edges of an injury or incision and rarely regress. They appear when the body keeps producing tough, fibrous collagen after a wound has healed.

Keloid scars can result from any type of injury to the skin, including scratches, tattoos, insect bites, injections or medical procedures. The most common areas for keloids to arise are the breastbone, the earlobes and the shoulders.

Hypertrophic scars used to be difficult to distinguish from keloid scars histologically and biochemically, but unlike keloids, hypertrophic scars are confined to the injury site and usually mature and even out over time. Both hypertrophic and keloid scars are raised scars, secreting more collagen than other scars, however, in hypertrophic scars you will see a lessening of collagen output after approximately six months.

Atrophic scars are the opposite and are lacking in collagen and skin, and therefore elasticity. A type of atrophic scar, striae distensae (stretch marks), falls in this category because the body cannot produce enough skin in time to accommodate the rapid stretching of skin.

Healing Scars Faster

The general idea of one method to accelerate the body's repair process and heal hypertrophic scars is to re-damage the area in a controlled manner (with needles, lasers, acid, etc.) to stimulate the regeneration of healthy skin.

A second scar treatment method is to use enzymes and activators of skin renewal fibroblasts to increase the body's natural reconstructing processes, healing scar tissue and obtaining even better final results. Fibroblasts are basal membrane skin cells that are the beginning step in constructing healthy skin, including those that eventually lend moisture, tensile strength and elasticity. This method is generally conducted through healing scar creams.

A Natural Serum to Heal Scars Quickly

Instead of an invasive scar revision treatment, try healing scars naturally with a serum collected from the garden snail that promotes skin regeneration and has similar properties to our own skin. It also manages dermal fibroblast and collagen production. By augmenting fibroblast count and decreasing collagen output, you can effectively prevent and diminish keloid and hypertrophic scarring.