Stretch Marks

[Mike Zero]

How do you deal with them?

I have large ones on my chest/shoulders/bis area and a massive batch coming up under my triceps. And I don't want dirty big permanant scars there. Is there a special sort of ointment or something for them?

Chur.

[keats]

I have been thinking about this for a while now, looks like you beat me to the topic. I have some massive ones from my chest through to delts. I have been using bio oil for a couple of months now and have not noticed any great benefits. I do know that once you have them you can never fully get rid of them only try to mask them and make them look minimal. Laser is another option however I have heard that results are minimal and the cost factor is massive. To keep them from forming more keep moisturising the area to give the skin elasticity to prevent further stretch marks forming.

If anyone else has ideas on this I would love to hear them too..

[blairandkelly]

stop eating all the pies :pfft:

[goinhard]

this topic used to always come up on bodybuilding.com and the consensus was always the same, nothing to make them go away, although some people found vitamin e cream to aid with the fading.

[Mike Zero]

Main goal is to stop the ones on my tris forming, if I can get rid of the older one's - that's just a bonus.

[The Legend Killer]

Yeah I have ones that go from just above my armpit up to the bicep. The left arm is worse than the right.

[2guns]

u should be proud of them!!!

means yr growing very fast!

especially if u got big deep purple ones :pfft:

[Pseudonym]

Any sort of moisturing cream/oil is good. If it contains vitamin A, that's ideal - but it's quite expensive. Vitamin E is ok, but A is preferable for anything to do with skin. It's "food for the skin", to quote my doctor...

Other than that, coconut oil, or cocoa butter is good.

[Truds]

Can you get 'Bio Oil' in NZ? I haven't tried it on stretchmarks, but used it on scars and it works awesome.

x

[Cammo]

Can you get 'Bio Oil' in NZ? I haven't tried it on stretchmarks, but used it on scars and it works awesome.

x

I was just about to suggest Bio Oil - it works wonders for scars & stretch marks!

[keats]

Can you get 'Bio Oil' in NZ? I haven't tried it on stretchmarks, but used it on scars and it works awesome.

x

I was just about to suggest Bio Oil - it works wonders for scars & stretch marks!

Bio oil is available at nearly every pharmacy. About $50 but if it works it'll be well worth it.

[keats]

u should be proud of them!!!

means yr growing very fast!

especially if u got big deep purple ones :pfft:

:grin: You got any yet 2guns?

[ohjoshua]

yeah I always wanted some...

closest I got was those marks on your shoulders after using the calf raise machine.

[Dumbelldog]

I bet 2guns has that many it looks like he has been whipped!

[NZPT]

i found bio oil worked well on the early forming ones on the inside of my arms but the deep purple ones it has just faded them so i have just kept using it religously twice per day and is going good.

[2guns]

yes i do have some lol