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scarring - 11/18/2011 6:01:06 PM

LillyBoPeep

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If you participate in activities that can cause scarring, how do you enncourage things to heal while minimizing scars?

What if you have a history of unusual scars? Do you just avoid those activities?

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RE: scarring - 11/18/2011 6:09:53 PM

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make sure the wound is cleaned well, make sure it doesn't get infected, use Mederma, eat well, drink well, keep healthy.

I have scars from play but I don't worry about them that much. I have worse scars from surgeries so I guess I'm just sorta used to them being there.

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RE: scarring - 11/18/2011 6:13:38 PM

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it goes back to WW2 pilots, but those that ditched in the sea healed quicker. Salt water has higher oxygen levels so a personal thing for me with deep wounds has always been a seaweed based dressing & saline baths.

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RE: scarring - 11/18/2011 6:56:05 PM

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I'm a fan of mederma cream myself.

However, if you tend to make keloid scars, that's a risk. A thin faint line is one thing, those thick raised ones that take years to sort of go away aren't something I am willing to have.

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RE: scarring - 11/18/2011 7:07:22 PM

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I don't get keloids, thank goodness, but I have had some become hypertrophic. They're related I think, but they are contained within the original boundaries of the wound, where keloids aren't and can get pretty huge.

But I don't have a single hypertrophic scar from my car accident -- the giant J-shaped thing on the back of my right arm is almost totally faded (I was really concerned about that). I have some small ones from small cuts on my arm from other incidents, but I also just recently accidentally snagged myself in the exact same area, and it's healing up fine. =p
I have one surgical scar from when I was 5 that people STILL ask me about after 22 years (it's slight, but it's enough that people ask -- one guy asked if someone had stabbed me in the neck haha =p), while others are gone in a matter of weeks.

I don't really know what the difference is. I really want to try more intense whipping, what with tomorrow being a whip demo, but I'm worried about ending up with a bunch of "reminders" that won't go away.
I had a slight scar from a whip on my chest but it's gone, and some scars from knife stuff that haven't quite gone.

It's just really erratic, so I want to gather as much info as possible from other kinky people (not that there's some meeegical difference between how vanillas and kinky folk handle scars, just that there's a difference in "motivation" I guess =p). I haven't actually tried Mederma yet. Or Bio-Oil or any of those other things, so maybe I'll give those a whirl and see what happens. I'm also going to try Vitamin E on some of them and see what happens. Doing oil rinses on my face has helped with a lot of the uneven tone so I wonder if it might help with scars?

I think, too, my attitude would be different if I were in a relationship with someone vs. just playing around and trying things out.

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RE: scarring - 11/18/2011 7:17:25 PM

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Found some interesting home remedies here:

http://www.natural-homeremedies.com/homeremedies_scar.htm

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RE: scarring - 11/19/2011 3:33:00 AM

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Interesting ^_^ I did some googling re: sandalwood and found a couple of other interesting links. You can use either a paste or essential oil. I'll definitely try that, especially since sandalwood is so dreamy. =p

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RE: scarring - 11/19/2011 5:01:47 AM

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Hi Lilly,
With the hypertrophic scars, do you get intense itching? The itching is caused by post inflammatory hyper pigmentation which occurs as a result of accelerated healing. What you need to do is slow down the healing process and not try and speed it up but if you have an open wound you need to guard yourself against infection. There is some recent controversy over the use of vitamin E. Some claim that vitamin E can make scars more pronounced especially in dark skinned people. You need vitamin C to rejuvenate skin cells and you can apply vitamin C directly to the skin. My niece, who is part Afro-Caribbean had an accident last year and was advised to use baking soda mixed with lemon juice and used to exfoliate. She has a tendency for dark scars and this age old remedy slows down 'hyper pigmentation' and helps to lighten the scars.
After reading this I called her and asked her if it helped. She said it did and that she would highly recommend it.

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RE: scarring - 11/19/2011 5:10:10 AM

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I actually don't get itching with them. They're just sorta "there." Interesting idea to slow down the healing process, though.
So she used the baking soda/lemon juice thing to exfoliate over old scars? Or during the healing/formation of new ones?
Lemon juice has lightening properties, so maybe that had something to do with it. Honey does, too (at least in hair, maybe similarly with skin.)

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RE: scarring - 11/19/2011 5:26:55 AM

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Lilly:

Try this fairly simple scar reducing therapy:

1 tab olive oil
1 tab honey
1 tab aloe vera juice (preferably direct from plant)
15 drops lavender essential oil
feel free to sub 5 of those drops with sandalwood, if you like (should make a super dreamy aroma)

Combine the first 3 items and mix well, then add the EOs. Apply using cotton ball. It might smell nice but it will be fairly greasy, so cover with a bandage to keep from staining clothes/sheets. Also, it will hold the treatment in longer.

Do this twice a day (morning and night) until you see marked results, then gear down to once a day at night.

Best, Chatte

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RE: scarring - 11/19/2011 5:54:53 AM

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She uses it on her elbows and knees where the skin tends to be darker and says it really works so I don't see why you can't try it on old scars. She used it during the healing process on her accident scars but not whilst the wounds were still open. Scars take six months to a year to develop properly and so you need to be dedicated.
Sunlight makes scars worse, so high factor if your showing your flesh to the sun.

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RE: scarring - 11/19/2011 6:12:14 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt

1 tab olive oil
1 tab honey
1 tab aloe vera juice (preferably direct from plant)
15 drops lavender essential oil
feel free to sub 5 of those drops with sandalwood, if you like (should make a super dreamy aroma)

I'll definitely give this a shot, especially since I already have all of the fixins ^_^

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ORIGINAL: MariaB

She uses it on her elbows and knees where the skin tends to be darker and says it really works so I don't see why you can't try it on old scars. She used it during the healing process on her accident scars but not whilst the wounds were still open. Scars take six months to a year to develop properly and so you need to be dedicated.
Sunlight makes scars worse, so high factor if your showing your flesh to the sun.

i'll definitely give it a shot then ^_^ thanks muches!

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RE: scarring - 11/19/2011 6:46:38 AM

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I think you will be pleased with the results, I have been.

I know you like sandalwood, but it's properties are very much different from lavender, so if you decide to go with full sandalwood, please limit it to 10 drops - it has a bad effect if you overdo it.

While lavender can be used on the skin neat (unlike most EOs).

Don't know if you already know that, but sometimes people think if a little is good, more would be better.

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RE: scarring - 11/19/2011 6:49:48 AM

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I have read that about lavender (similarly with tea tree) -- I mostly use them for my hair; haven't quite gotten into skin stuff, other than dressing up shea butter. haha

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RE: scarring - 11/19/2011 1:10:47 PM

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I can really recommend the Mederma. My kid, a couple of years ago, was fooling around with a friend and got a scar on his face the exact copy of Harry Potter. He used the Mederma for months and within six months it was entirely gone.

Vitamin E oil we used to use on the show horse so he would be pretty in the ring as scars get points off during in hand classes. It's safe if he licked it which the Mederma isn't. It didn't work as well as the Mederma but he was licking it off and didn't listen when told to avoid aggravating the area. He didn't listen to much other than the sound of dinner coming through the barn.

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RE: scarring - 11/19/2011 3:01:35 PM

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6 months isn't bad. Well I'll have to keep Mederma on the list. :)

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RE: scarring - 11/19/2011 4:08:57 PM

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A dermatologist prescribed me silicone gel patches (I think they were called Scar Away but I'm not sure) for a really nasty brand on my back. They worked really well and softened it and smoothed it out. Super expensive but something to keep in mind for really bad scars.

Good luck,
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RE: scarring - 11/19/2011 4:44:00 PM

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Mederma is decent. A lot of transguys use it on chest scarring with mixed results, but overall, most recommend it....but we have found that a lot of African Americans have more issues with scarring than us white boys.

The other suggestion: try a different whip/implement, one that won't cut the skin.

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RE: scarring - 11/20/2011 12:55:54 AM

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Yeah, darker skin has a lot of annoying challenges... I hate feeling constrained by something so silly. Or maybe it's more to do with my perception of what "pretty skin" means.
I don't really want to become a walking maze from just playing around, though.

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RE: scarring - 11/20/2011 1:34:40 PM

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To some degree it is about avoiding activities that scar, or accepting that some scars will happen.

I play hard, and went through a period where I tried to avoid scars, and oh that didn't go so well.

Personally, I love my scars, and the memories related to them.

A couple of notes on good healing:
if the skin splits at all, for good healing make sure it closes. We always keep some butterflies in the case for this purpose.

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