repair scar

The wound healing process is comprised of three overlapping phases: inflammation, proliferation, and maturation.

During the inflammatory phase, blood vessels contract and red blood cells clot the wound while white blood cells swarm to the damaged area in an effort to clean up any contaminants and protect the site from infection.

Then, during the proliferate phase, both skin cells and connective tissue cells (fibroblasts) begin multiplying to repair the damage. The fibroblasts form a framework upon which the skin cells can migrate into and fill in the wound. It is the balance between the rate of replication of fibroblasts versus skin cells that is important here. If the fibroblasts replicate too quickly, they can form a dense network that is not as easily penetrated by the skin cells and that results in a large scar. If the skin cells keep up with the fibroblasts, then little scar tissue is formed and the skin has a more normal appearance after the wound has healed. But sometimes the process does not yield new tissue and an eroded area is left over. Here is where BIOSKINCARE plays an important role, because of the allantoin from the natural snail secretions that it contains in a bio-available form. Glycosaminoglycans has been termed a cell proliferant, or an epithelization stimulant, for it speeds up the formation of new cells and collagen cells.

During the maturation phase of a wound, also known as the remodeling phase, new collagen is formed to create a scar. Collagen is a fibrous protein which gives a new scar its characteristic bumpy look. With recovery, the collagen is broken down and the scar flattens and shrinks. Scar maturation left on its own usually takes at least a year. BIOSKINCARE triggers the proliferation of fibroblasts the cells responsible for creating both collagen and elastin connective tissue cells, speeding up the scar maturation process.