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Scar Fading – You’ll Never Erase a Plastic Surgery Scar. You Can Fade It.

Scar fading is the number one goal of scar patients, especially people who have had plastic surgery. The doctor promises a tidy scar. He can’t be certain it will be. He can’t promise it won’t turn colors.

Why scar fading? 

• Reducing color makes a mark look smaller.
• Scar fading gives the appearance of a flatter scar.
• Facial fading treatments can ease embarrassment.
• Silicone is proven effective for fading.

 The plastic surgeon tried to hide his handiwork. Your facial scar may be at the hairline. Or under the ear. If it heals red, or purple, or multi-colored, it becomes obvious.

Tummy tuck scars, and breast reduction or improvment scars can’t be hidden well. An effective scar fading cream can be part of “managing” those scars.

Also, you can’t know for a year to eighteen months just how much your plastic surgery mark will fade. That’s how long normal fading takes. Until then, people can see you “had work done”.

 You can encourage plastic surgery scars to fade sooner with a silicone scar fading cream.

• Silicone was once used to moisturize scars. By accident doctors realized it shrinks tissue and fade redness.
• Of course, a shrunken scar is also less noticeable. Silicone works to reduce scar size.

Not all silicone products are created equal.

Silicone for other scars.

Best Scar Treatment – A Comparison of Which Natural Therapies Work. And Those That Don’t

Here’s the rundown on natural scar treatment options.

 1. 100% Silicone gel or cream.

• Keeps moisture around the wound. Speeds healing. Fast healing cuts scar formation.
• Silicone is an infection barrier. Infection stops normal healing, which means more scar tissue piles up.
• Silicone reduces scar color and size.
• It’s used by doctors following scar surgery.
• Doctors recommend it for home scar treatment.

2. Onion extract.

• This is an older, homeopathic remedy.
• It was tested at a Texas hospital.
• Redness, itching and scar size stayed the same.

 3. Vitamin E.

• This was also part of the Texas hospital test.
• It proved worthless for scars.
• It could help your overall health.

 4. Copper Peptide.

• It boosts collagen.
• Collagen is bad. It’s what makes scars bulge.
• It may be fine for indented scars.

5. Arnica.

• Homeopathic remedy.
• It easily breaks down if it comes in contact with any other substance.

6. Siegesbeckia orientalis.

• This is the juice of a sticky bush, used to cover wounds. So there is some protection.
• The Chinese think it’s a weed and avoid it. The Chinese KNOW herbal medicine.

 7. Sorbitan olivate.

• Basically, it’s olive oil.
• It can soften skin.
• Oil di olivia makes no permanent change in scarring.

8. Elicina.

• This is snail extract.
• There is no medical evidence it works to reduce scars.

You will find products made of silicone mixed with aloe or other moisturizers. No over-the-counter moisturizer can do what silicone does to draw and retain moisture. These products contain less healing silicone to make room for the moisturizer.

Find a silicone product that works.

Which scars will silicone help?

Scar Fading: Scar Color is Natural and Responds to Scar Fading Products

Most scarring is red or brown. It’s the natural color of the woven skin cells that form during healing. 

Scar fading can be readily accomplished. Not everyone knows what to call it, or what expectations to set.

Many people seek what they refer to as a scar reducer. Others search for the best scar removal option. Help, treatment, revision. Here’s the goal: 

• Reducing color can make a mark look smaller.
• Scar fading gives the appearance of a flatter scar.
• Facial fading treatments can ease embarrassment. 

A medical study of silicone gel found one in three people experienced scar fading. Lasers are effective over time. Dermabrasion is effective on protruding pigmented skin. When fading is the goal, surgery may be extreme as it leaves another scar. 

A health note: Bright redness can mean a scar is infected, and you should see a doctor.