Scar management and skin rashes: the wonder of skin repair

Moving through life means allowing the fragile yet robust sheath of our skin to come up against the hazards of everyday life: a knife slipping while you're cooking, falling in the playground, DIY that ends badly... When faced with small injuries as well as larger ones, the skin triggers a precision mechanism and one of the most remarkable properties of human tissue: scar healing.

Scar healing is the process of repairing skin tissue in three stages:
• An inflammatory phase lasting 2 to 7 days, during which your skin, which appears red and hot, will defend itself. If the inflammation is too intense, medical interventions will be necessary.
• A deep healing phase during which the dermal tissues regenerate by forming fleshy buds: proliferations rich in vessels and cells.
• Finally, after around two weeks, a superficial phase begins, called “epidermal remodelling,” where the epidermis closes around the edges of the wound. This phase can last up to two years from the time the wound is formed.

And as well as wounds that trigger this protective mechanism, there are other recurring forms of aggression that your skin encounters: skin rashes, of which there are many causes, recurrences, locations and forms, and they can vary from one individual to another. When it comes to scar healing and skin rashes, there are plenty of ways to help your skin get to work repairing itself. If you give your skin some attention, care and, above all, time, it will do the rest.