Best At-Home Treatments for Stretch Marks—The Proven Methods!

If you've done a peel though, you know, you did a TCA 20 or 30 or something like that, yeah, it's gonna look worse usually. It can be red, it could be aggravated for a couple of weeks, then it takes a few weeks to start peeling, then yeah, it could look worse before it looks better. So that's why photos are so important.

All right, today let's talk about stretch marks. Stretch marks are traditionally scars, right? It's a scar. It's a very, very deep scar and many, many people have them and are plagued with them, even from weight loss, even growth spurts, you know, sometimes young, even teenagers can get them, absolutely, growth spurts and things.

And obviously weight loss, pregnancy, weight gain, weight, there's just a million things that are any, any time your skin is stretched in a direction too fast, for sure, you know, fibers tear and it creates a scar, and you know, that is what it is. People, so we have to target it like we target any scar. Absolutely.

So, you know, there are definitely some main things that we can do. Yes. With scars, we try to break them down.

We usually use an acid for that. Yeah. That's scar tissue, right? So it's a little more, a little sturdier, a little more resistant, I would say.

Yeah. Yeah. And the only scars that we don't want to work on now a stretch marks, we're not working, we're not worried about keloids and things like that.

But I want to mention, because we're talking about this as a scar, and we're talking about a scar treatment. Yes. The only kind of scar we don't want to put more acids on is a keloid.

And a keloid is not just a raised scar. That's a hypertrophic scar. As long as it stays within the original wound, that's just a normal hypertrophic scar.

We can put acid on that. If you have a wound and the scar tissue expands past it, that's called a keloid. Yeah.

And we don't ever want to aggravate scars like that. For sure. Not with acid.

Because it could potentially make it worse, we can make it worse. And that's the last thing we want to do.

Your skin will only improve if it. It sort of keeps kind of stimulating things and some more growth, more expansion. Things like that happen.

Something like that happened to my mom, and she had like a shot on her arm when the little, you know, kids used to get that one shot. Yeah. Right.

Everybody has that scar. She had that scar worked on, got a keloid. So it got worse because they did stuff to it.

And every time they tried to do more, it got worse. So you just reach a point where you just don't do anything else to it. Right.

So what you would do, it's not like you're out of luck. Right. You would just use something like copper.

You know, copper is a skin remodeler. We're going to use that with this, but we're just going to combine acid with it. Copper helps to break down normal skin tissue.

So that can be anything from bumps and growths, but scars as well. It's just, it's formed differently than your normal skin. Right.

You know, so it knows this, it helps to break it down, and then it stimulates your body to regenerate new tissues to replace what is old, not quite correct skin tissue. And that is actually what my mom did on her arm to improve the look of her keloid scar. So something like this can be done.

But part of this, like this, is breaking down scar tissue. What else can we use to break down scar tissue? Acids. Right.

So step one is step two for most people. Step one is doing a peel. Yeah.

We can use a little stronger acids. Usually, I guess, of course, this is going to depend on your skin color. If you're very light, you're going to be less prone to having issues.

If you're Fitzpatrick four through six, which is anybody with like olive skin tone and darker, you're going to run a higher risk of getting post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. So you always, always want to prep for at least four weeks with a melanin inhibitor, for sure.

Our Fade Bright has, you know, the alpha arbutin, which is that key ingredient. Of course, you can use hydroquinone as well. Some people have prescriptions for that.

Perfectly fine. Use it for four weeks. Okay.

And actually, the lighter skin tones should do that as well. And then we want to break down the scar tissue. Now I've had some people ask me, like, do I apply it to the whole area? Do I just use it on this guy? If you have, you know, a couple of strips of stretch marks, okay.

I suggest you take a Q-tip, dip it into your acid, make sure it's not dripping, you know, rub it off on there. And then you could follow along the line a little bit. Isolate it to the actual isolate it to the scar.

Yeah. To the stretch mark. Yeah.

If it's all over, though, you know, sometimes people have like a vast area, you're obviously going to be better off treating the whole thing for sure. Using your gauze, get it wet, not dripping, apply a couple of layers, like a 20 is a good place to start. Yes.

I hesitate to tell people to start 30 unless they're very, very light, light skin. Right. And, you know, then focus on something like that.

For sure. Um, but yeah, use the acid, break it down. Yes.

And then once that's healed and all that kind of stuff, then use your copper on a daily basis. Hydration, of course, may be emu oil. I would, yeah.

Heal with emu oil or mainly in the body. I also, yeah. Essential healing blend.

Yeah, for sure. And if it's a bigger area, like the shea butter, I love shea butter because it's thicker, and it really does stand out. A lot of times, you can use emu oil or essential oil and put the shea butter on top for long-lasting results.

Or, of course, you could use Aquaphor, things like that. And I suggest that you need a thicker barrier. Like if you're a lot of times, this isn't like a hip area or the back of your butt, things like that, or your thighs, where your clothing's going to be rubbing.

So that's the kind of time where I say, yeah, we need like a barrier to protect the skin that you've treated. So you can use Aquaphor, or you can use something thicker, like shea butter, and put it on a little bit thicker. So you protect. Speaking of shea butter, I did a phone call with an expecting mom, and she was fearful of, you know, stretch marks to come.

So we talked at great lengths about, you know, treating her growing belly daily with the shea butter. I put shea butter on, too. Shea butter and emu oil.

I recommended both, or even the healing oil. You know, that's going to help things make it nice and pliable for whatever you can do. And it doesn't matter.

Your skin is just stretching so much, and it's itching, and it could be tearing. And that's what's causing the stretch marks in the future. So whatever you can do, some people love cocoa, cocoa butter.

I find cocoa butter is so hard, though. It is so hard. This comes in like a stick.

It's hard to get on there. Shea butter, you just scoop it and rub it into your hands. It just melts so much easier to put on.

And emu oil, of course, you have to do nothing for maybe five, 10 seconds in the microwave if you want it, because it is a harder butter as well. Yes. But it does melt in your hand.

So, yeah. And now let's think about this. Sometimes, you know, acid isn't the only way to break down a scar.

Right. So what can we do? We can needle it. Yeah.

So we have the new Alqemi line. Here's our micro-infusion sweep. And this comes with a serum that, of course, you can needle with, and it comes with all of your needles.

And one serum that I would highly, highly recommend because PDRN is known for helping scars. So, of course, we have our PDRN serum. You can pour that right into here.

You can mix it with the growth factors. You can mix it with the adipose exosomes, anything you want. But this, too, you know, needling also helps to break down scar tissue.

Sure. So I would, oh, and this also has the copper in it. This has the GHK in there.

So, just super all the way around for targeting scars. So I would do this, you know, go over that. I will go over the scar probably two or three times.

And we're not trying to be super gentle to this, especially with the needling. I would go over it. Remember, whenever you stamp on the area you want to stamp, cover about 50%, and keep going.

When you're done covering that area, that's one. Let's talk a little bit about our unique needle head. Yeah, this is way better than anything else that, you know, you're going to find of a similar style, I guess we'll say, like a stamping tool.

Yes. You know, most of them you find maybe 16 or 20 needles. And so we had this one customized for us, of course, and this has 30 needles on there.

So what that equates to is that's 50% more coverage, every stamp that you do. So you are getting far more activity using this little needle here than let's say some others on the market, of which there are a few for sure. And your serum is literally going to penetrate because the serum is coming through the needle, and you've got more holes here, right, for that serum to go through.

So you're having more efficient serum flow when you're using something like this. I mean, still, you fill it up with whatever you want to put in here. You're going to flip it upside down for a couple of minutes.

Then you're going to clean that area. So let's say I'm always like assuming you're doing it like on a belly area or your hip, you know, clean that. You want to sanitize that skin.

I would suggest either double washing it or using an antibacterial cleaner, or just get like an alcohol on my gauze or a cotton pad, go over the area, because, you know, we want this to be sanitized. And then these are, you know, when you take this out of here, these needles are sanitized. If you bought the refill kit of which we actually have the refill kit.

Let's say you don't want to use this serum and you only want to use the PDRN. Right. Well, you can just buy this kit here, which comes with one tool and six needles.

Okay. And then buy whatever serum you want. Like, so if I were going to treat my scars, right, you might want just to buy this and then the PDRN, and then you can do that.

Wow. So that would be technically six treatments. Six treatments.

And then this comes with three bottles. So, I mean, are you going to use the whole bottle in a treatment, especially if you're treating just a small area? Probably not. So, you know, maybe pour half of the bottle in here and put the rest away.

So you could potentially do way more treatments. I mean, there's 5ml in this bottle. You're not going to use 5ml to cover an area like that.

For sure. Maybe half of the bottle. And you would want to isolate that to the actual scars, I'm assuming, the needling.

Yeah. Yeah. Because that's, you know, that's our topic is our scars or stretch marks.

You know, kind of, so the products and coppers and things are going to penetrate nicely. Yeah. And so, like there is a little bit of copper in the GHK, but that doesn't mean that's just during that treatment.

Yes. Right. So for the rest of the month or, you know, two weeks later, whenever you're deciding, depends on how aggressive you are.

Let's say you just did that scar once. Okay. Well, in two weeks, you can probably do another needling treatment.

If you went over it two, three times, you should probably wait four weeks before you do another treatment. So in the meantime, you can use things like this, the GHK Crepey Skin Escape, or you can use, you know, the second-generation copper peptides, which is a Super Cop 2X, or you can use a Super CP Serum, whatever you want, just pick a good copper product. Yes.

We like these, obviously, these are by Dr. Pickart. These are way more intense than anything else. You're going to find out they're higher percentages of the active ingredient, but you can use this and, as always, take a picture because, you know, everything remodeling takes time.

It does. But if you take a picture before you start, take a picture every single month, as you go, I mean, these things work, needling works, breaking it down. That's literally what the cross is.

It's almost a combination of needling and the acid peel. We're breaking it down multiple ways. So, using an acid or using a needle, not both of these at the same time ever.

Let's clarify that. Never in a million years should you pour acid in here and needle this into your skin. That's a no, no, no.

That's a 10,000% no, no. Yes. We're going to alternate those instead.

Maybe you're going to do needling this month, and you're going to do a peel next month. Right. And that, in conjunction with the copper peptides, is how you treat these.

I mean, that is, that is really a great regimen. That's how you're going to improve your, you want to, it's not going to be, you're not going to get one treatment, and it's, they're going to be gone. Oh no, no.

You have to realize that this is going to be. It might even look worse at first because you're aggravating it. True.

Especially if we're talking about peels, let's talk about peels for a minute. Because of this, if you're doing needling, it could be inflamed for a day or two, then it's going to be fine.

Especially if you're using PDRN or any of the serums that we have, those are calming. They're going to calm down and heal. That's going to look normal after a day or two.

If you've done a peel, though, you know, you did a TCA 20 or 30 or something like that. Yeah. It's going to look worse.

Usually it can be red. It could be aggravated for a couple of weeks. Then it takes a few weeks to start peeling.

Then yeah, it could look worse before it looks better. So that's why photos are so important, because once that four weeks is up and the regeneration has taken place, it's going to be looking better. Yeah.

And then you're like, going to do it again, where it might look a little bit worse for a bit, but it's a process for sure. I would always anticipate at least, just like with any peel series, six to eight.

Yes. You know, same thing with needling, you know, six to eight. I mean, you've got to give it months for this to work, but if you're taking your pictures, I can't wait to see pictures coming in.

Yeah. That'd be amazing when people are actually using these and some of these new products and new ingredients we have that are just perfect.

Yeah. And that's why they're here. That's why they were added, because they're perfect for a lot of things that our customers really need help with.

And this is definitely one of them. Yeah. And definitely this, the stretch marks are something that, you know, we do hear that a lot, you know, and, and now during the winter months is when everybody is trying to treat those, and it's winter here in Michigan.

Everything's under wraps, you know, it's all covered. So now is a fantastic time to, you know, you still can get three, four treatments in before, you know, springtime hits, and that's making some serious headway. And especially with the needling and the PDRN and you know, everything just, it's just going to be a fantastic, amazing.

Like I said, we're going to have so many wonderful photos. I cannot wait to see all the new stuff. Like for like, the reviews we have for our TCA and stuff.

I just can't wait. I can't wait. We're going to have so much because these things are going to work great for people.

Absolutely. So that's a, that's what we recommend for stretch marks. And if you have any other questions, be sure to email us at support@platinumskincare.com. Yep.

You can phone us at 1-800-917-3155. Yep. We're here Monday through Friday to help.

Yes. Monday through Friday, Eastern Standard Time. Yeah.

Nine to four was probably the best time to call. Yeah. Don't call at nine 30.

The phone lines literally shut off. Yeah. Four 30 at four 30, the phone lines will shut off.

So if you really need a good consultation, call by 4 PM so we can give you the time that you deserve. Yes, absolutely. Thank you.

Have a great day.