Prevention

Retinoids, Topical Steroids, and Alpha Hydroxy Acids Help

Retinoids, Topical Steroids, and Alpha Hydroxy Acids Help

The best way to treat stretch marks is to prevent them in the first place. The best way to do this is through the use of topical creams like retinoid products and alpha-hydroxy acids, combined with topical steroids.

Elsewhere on our website you may have read that topical steroid creams have been used to induce stretch marks artificially on otherwise normal skin.So given that, the notion of then applying topical steroids to prevent and treat stretch marks seems strange. However, since stretch marks are caused by inflammation in the skin, steroid creams can be used to reduce this inflammation, and alpha-hydroxy acids and retinoids can then be used to negate the negative effects of the steroid creams. Therefore we combine the products and reduce the occurrence of stretch marks while there are still forming.