I am a woman of science and a seeker of the truth, and since I have no hope of ever becoming a bikini model, I decided to do a top secret experiment on myself with some scar treatment business to see if it would do anything good, or anything at all and I have interesting results to report.

Here is how this all started, I have had acne my whole life, thanks to PCOS, so I do weekly facials and whatnot - and I use products to improve the texture of my skin. I stumbled across a product I have seen FOR YEARS but never purchased because I didn't like the idea of putting oil on my face. Little did I know, I was missing out. The product is called Bio-Oil and just for the record I have not been given anything for free, or paid by this company, however I wouldn't be totally opposed to it if they offered

It did wonders for my skin on my face, so I decided that as soon as my incisions were closed and/or mostly crusted over I was going to treat one of the sites with Bio-Oil, and leave the other one to heal on its own, and I would let you guys know how its going. I'm six weeks post op and the difference is pretty significant so I thought I would share.

Here is the product in question, and clearly, there is no hope of a modeling contract in my future

Clearly you can see that the site that got the treatment came together much better and has also lost a lot of the redness. Overall, at six weeks both look fine, but there is clearly a difference so if anyone is actually concerned about scars, they might want to check this out.

I've Included pictures both as hyperlinks and attachments for ease of viewing.

I will answer all questions in the comments section.

Is the bio oil expensive too?

Well, they sell it in a huge bottle and this small one that I have in the picture, that smaller one was around 7-10 dollars but I have been using it on my face and my scar for longer than a month and I havent really made a dent in it.

My scars look like bruises and I'm five months out. Would medera help that?

BTW I used bio oil at the advice of a plastic surgeon on a severe injury on my wrist. My scaring is pretty awful...I look like a bad suicide victim LOL (but my cuts go up and down verses side to side). I have a foot long scar going from the middle of my hand to the inside of my elbow. It was very painful because of the debth of the surgery (I have donor bone, plates, screws and pins) so the healing includes a lot of the skin pulling. The bio oil was suggested because it is effective in softening the skin which reduces the pain. My scar is not pretty, but it's not red and awful nor was it ever after the surgery (well long term...I was in a cast for a couple of months). That scar looks better than the little ones on my stomach and I didn't have the plastic surgery on it (yet). It's good stuff. I would have used it on these scars if I wasn't too sick to care afterwards.

I bet Mederma would help. also keep it out of sunlight or get in the habit of running a little SPF along it. tanning and UV exposure really seems to make scars stay discolored longer

I actually just opened my first bottle of bio-oil today! Can I ask how you apply it? I attempted a qtip and then switched to my fingers but it didn't seem like much oil was coming out. What's the ideal way to apply this stuff? I'm using it on my face and incisions.

I actually just opened my first bottle of bio-oil today! Can I ask how you apply it? I attempted a qtip and then switched to my fingers but it didn't seem like much oil was coming out. What's the ideal way to apply this stuff? I'm using it on my face and incisions.

I didn't do anything fancy, I just rubbed a fairly large amount (maybe 7 good drops) into the incision and really massaged it in because that helps soften it.

Ok saw it at Walmart for 7 bucks! I'm going to try that when the mederma sample is gone!