Stretch marks are a very common occurrence and are known to become more prominent from the age of puberty onwards. This is primarily because the body goes through a significant amount of physical change and the speeds of growth are highly increased. Any sudden and drastic changes in an individual’s physical dimensions will cause the skin to over stretch, and although it is very expandable, the normal production of collagen, which is a protein that makes up part of the connective tissue in the skin, gets disrupted.


Because of this, you will notice the development of stretch marks on the areas of skin that have suffered this drastic change. Bodybuilders and obese individuals are likely to have noticeable stretch marks on their body as a result of the constant change that their bodies are going through. People that use steroid containing skin creams and ointments for more than a period of a few weeks are also likely to suffer from stretch marks.


Medically known as Striae gravidarum, the marks will initially show up to be pink in color and turn whiter a little later on. Another very common development of stretch marks is if a woman is pregnant as the amount of physical change that the body needs to undergo can stretch the skin to significant levels. The fact that the body will try to return to its original dimensions after childbirth puts a lot of stress on the collagen tissues that had been disturbed.

There are a number of home remedies that will help lessen the prominence of stretch marks that you can try in the comfort of your own home. For example, you could try applying some lavender oil on the stretch marks about 3 times a day. You could also create a mixture with the help of about seven drops of lavender oil and a few drops of chamomile oil to an ounce of jojoba, sweet almond or avocado oil and massage the mixture over the affected areas of your body. There are a number of creams and lotions available in the cosmetics market that should help significantly reduce the stretch marks prominence as well. You could also try blending ½ a cup of olive oil, ¼ cup of aloe vera gel and the liquid extracted from 6 vitamin E capsules and store the concoction in a refrigerator. Apply this mixture over the stretch marks on a regular basis to notice a considerable improvement in their prominence.