Bio-Oil Skincare Oil 60ml

Bio-Oil Skincare Oil 60ml is the Ireland's No.1 selling scar and stretch mark product. Bio-Oil Skincare Oil helps improve the appearance of scars, stretch marks and uneven skin tone. The clinically proven formulation is a combination of plant extracts and vitamins suspended in an oil base that work together to help improve the skins texture and increase its elasticity.

Bio-Oil Skincare Oil’s formulation combines a blend of Vitamins A and E, plant extracts and a breakthrough ingredient PurCellin Oil, which reduces the thickness of the formulation and makes it easily absorbed. Bio-Oil Skincare Oil should not be applied to an open wound or broken skin. It is safe to use Bio-Oil Skincare Oil on a scar as soon as the skin on the surface has fully healed.

Scars: Helps improve the appearance of both new and old scars.

Stretch Marks: Helps improve the appearance of stretch marks.

Uneven Skin Tone: Helps improve the appearance of uneven skin tone in both light and dark skin types

Aging and Dehydrated Skin: Helps smooth and tone the appearance of aging skin on both the face and the body, and helps retain moisture.

What causes stretch marks?

Stretch marks – or striae – also affect the surface of the skin. These long, thin marks can develop wherever skin has been stretched, particularly in areas such as the stomach, breasts, upper arms, thighs and buttocks. They start off red or purple in colour, but gradually fade to silvery white. Stretch marks often develop after a period of rapid weight gain. Teenagers may develop stretch marks as they go through puberty – teenage boys can develop them on their back, where they cause horizontal marks over the spine area. They are also common during pregnancy (see Stretch marks and pregnancy, below).

Other things that can cause stretch marks include certain health conditions such as Marfan syndrome or Cushing’s syndrome, as well as using steroid medicines inappropriately or for a long time. You may also be more likely to develop stretch marks if others in your family have been affected by them. Stretch marks are the result of stretching and tearing in the middle layer of the skin (the dermis). This layer contains fibres that let your skin stretch naturally as you grow, usually without leaving any marks. But during periods of rapid growth, the fibres become overstretched and can break.

These tears in the fibres let the blood vessels in the skin below show through, making the stretch marks red or purple in colour. After a while the blood vessels become smaller, which reveals the fat underneath your skin. When this happens, your stretch marks turn pale and silvery white in colour.