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With summer underway, you might be paying closer attention to the stretch marks on your body. If you have them, don’t stress, they’re normal and common for everyone. Essentially, stretch marks are scars that occur when the skin rapidly stretches or shrinks. You may experience stretch marks with pregnancy, rapid weight loss or gain, and puberty. Dr. Jaimie DeRosa, board-certified facial plastic surgeon and founder of DeRosa Center Plastic Surgery and Med Spa shares that “when the skin heals from this trauma, many people will develop stretch marks.” Keep in mind whether you get stretch marks or not is largely up to genetics.
Since stretch marks are actually scars, DeRosa says a stretch mark cream is not going to completely remove them, but it may help prevent them as well as decrease their severity—especially when used early on. If you are inclined to reduce the appearance of your stretch marks, check out the 15 best products to reduce them.
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