4 Stages Of The Healing Process

Types Of Scars

Scar Healing’s Best: Why Silicone Is The GOLD STANDARD

For over 30 years, medical grade silicone has been considered the gold standard of scar management. Hailed by the healthcare community as the most effective way to maintain the ideal healing environment for your wound-site, it’s perhaps the best way to prevent scars!

Increases hydration within the upper layers of the skin

Amplifies collagen production, flattening your scar

Safe & non-invasive way to treat your scar

Promotes smoother, pliable scar tissue over time

Helps minimize hyperpigmentation or discoloration

Can Old Scars Still Be Treated?

Older scars are notoriously difficult to treat— and for good reason. Scars typically remain in “repair mode” for about 2 years after the wound initially forms. During this time, the injury is still in the process of rebuilding the collagen and elastin that act as supportive building blocks of the skin. 

After this window, however, the maintenance period is essentially over— making it difficult for scar treatments to have any impact on the body’s naturally occurring processes. There are a few things topical products can still help treat however:

Treat Discoloration

Often one of the last vestiges of a scar is discoloration. While post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation will often fade eventually, the process can be helped along & even improved with scar creams (like our own Scar Esthetique) that target discoloration on the cellular level, evening out the skin tone.

Long Term Scar Care

Some folks find that giving their scarred areas a little extra TLC can help improve the scar’s appearance— but only if they keep up with it. Our Scar Esthetique Silicone Scar Cream is designed not only to brighten skin tone, but also nourish overall skin health with ingredients like polypeptides, botanicals, and antioxidants.

Smooth & Flatten

Though no longer in “active wound maintenance”, the body does still slowly replace scar tissue with regular skin cells over time. Because of this, some people have found that a combination of Silicone Scar Sheets (to flatten & smooth) & Scar Esthetique Scar Cream (to brighten & soften up the edges) can help improve the appearance of stubborn scars— the process can just take quite a long time.