Milk Heals Skin and Possibly Scars?

Are there any scientific backgrounds to Cleopatra bathing in milk? According to doctor Timothy Rayner there are.

It turns out milk really does have a lot to do with healing skin, particularly in burns patients. And milk seems to benefit not just wound healing but also (potentially) scar healing.

Dr Timothy Rayner and his team discovered that it stimulated skin cells to produce collagen. They went looking for the responsible agent and found a protein molecule that not only promotes collagen production, but also has the potential to increase the speed with which new tissue is formed.

Read the whole interview on the National Health and Medical Research website of the Australian government.

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How to get rid of scars naturally

Getting rid of scars, making scars disappear or removing scars isn't possible most of the times. In some exceptional cases a scar will disappear almost completely but this depends on many factors. Scars can be smoothened, faded, blended in, improved, softened, toned down and so on. The original scar can be diminished up to 80%. It will not vanish but the goal can be: really having to look where the scar was.

Actually there are two ways of treating scars. The invasive manner and the natural way. With invasive I mean things like cosmetic scar surgery and laser or nitrogen treatment. I really think these treatments should only be considered as a last resort. When natural scar healing methods are useless like with a big keloid scar invasive methods can be a great help but there's a bigger risk involved as well. That's why I want to emphasize on natural scar improving methods. (More on scar treatment risks in following posts)

Natural means making use of the skin's own recovering abilities. For example by stimulating the metabolism in the scar tissue or by increasing the skin temperature which results in an increased enzyme activity in the skin.

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