The Student Room Group
Cocoa butter cream or the real cocoa butter stick. Use that on your skin and you'll be amazed how quick the scars fade.

GD
Reply 2
Gloucesterdancer
Cocoa butter cream or the real cocoa butter stick. Use that on your skin and you'll be amazed how quick the scars fade.

GD


Can I just buy that at the local chemists?
Reply 3
Hay I had some for years and being a girl they really bothered me but guess what spent all of last summer in the sun and I came back with a beautiful clear, shiny tanned back. If you can't go on holiday and are not ridiculously pale ( you prob have melanin in your skin if you've colour scarred) I'd get on a sunbed. I know your a bloke and all the cancer risk stuff but I would put 500 pounds on your back clearing up with enough sessions.

Cocoa butter doesn't really give results in my experience at least. Due to its greasy texture I wouldn't want to put it on my back anyway. It's drying out skin instead which makes it flake off and expose new layers which you want to do.
Reply 4
Mothercare's stretch mark cream works wonders on granulation tissue.
Reply 5
Melissa85
Hay I had some for years and being a girl they really bothered me but guess what spent all of last summer in the sun and I came back with a beautiful clear, shiny tanned back. If you can't go on holiday and are not ridiculously pale ( you prob have melanin in your skin if you've colour scarred) I'd get on a sunbed. I know your a bloke and all the cancer risk stuff but I would put 500 pounds on your back clearing up with enough sessions.

Cocoa butter doesn't really give results in my experience at least. Due to its greasy texture I wouldn't want to put it on my back anyway. It's drying out skin instead which makes it flake off and expose new layers which you want to do.


That's the same advice I got from a female friend.
Not tried it myself but i heard that vitamin E cream works well, i think you can buy it from body shop.
Reply 7
What about bio-oil? I think thats made to reduce scarring.
Reply 8
I've got loads on my back, but cause I never see them, I didn't think of getting rid of them.
the girl i'm seeing noticed mine :eek:

tanning definitely does help in my experience. also vitamin A cream from le doctor