Most people are not very happy about stretch marks and especially pregnant women. You watch your otherwise beautiful body get bigger and bigger and your skin is stretch to the limited and then all the stretch marks start to appear. Stretch marks can be awful to look at and can really make your self esteem go downhill very quickly. Once they are there, you have no hope of having them disappear completely, but you can make them less seeable.

This is where vitamins and minerals can play a big role in the prevention of stretch marks. Vitamins help to keep the skin healthy and elastic. Here is a good recipe to help prevent you form getting stretch marks.

- 1/2 cup virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup aloe Vera gel
- Liquid from 6 capsules of Vitamin E
- Liquid from 4 capsules of Vitamin A

Mix all the ingredients together in a blender. Pour the mixture into a jar and store it in the fridge. Apply the oil to the skin where the stretch marks commonly appear which is usually the stomach, thighs, legs and breasts. If you do this every day, you may prevent stretch. So the point here is that if you want to avoid stretch marks you need to maintain a diet that is rich in vitamins A, C, E, and zinc.

There is a lot of hype surrounding herbal stretch mark gels these days. This product is mostly pushed toward those who would prefer a natural or organic method for treating their stretch marks, rather than resorting to surgery and skin peels. There are many different herbal stretch mark gels out there that are worthwhile using.

Herbs play a huge role in dealing with just about everything these days so you can't really be surprised to see it listed here. In some people, using herbal gels helps to deal with existing scarring but it may not be totally removed, however, these herbal gels will improve your stretch marks with continued use.

Recent studies have shown that you need vitamin C in your body for collagen to be formed, and I would suggest that you intake daily amounts of it included in your herbal gels along with vitamin e if you want the best overall results. I would also suggest that you take them in pill form at the same time as when you apply herbal gels.