Getting rid of old burn scar

I have an old burn scar.  I want it gone.  I want it gone badly enough that I am going to sand it off if I have to.  Anyone have any ideas for an easier method?  Keep in mind, it's about 20 years old, so honey or lemon juice aren't going to do it.

My suggestion would be to consult a dermatologist as there are treatment to remove scars that vary such as laser therapy.

There are also ointment that help remove scars.

Have you tried massaging with aloe vera?

The best thing I can recommend to try it's pure frankincense, applied morning & night. It dramatically increases cell regeneration, speeding healing. That said, it could still take time, before you'll see noticeable difference. Of course, there are no guarantees that it will work. Much depends on the nature and age of the tissue damage. I hope it helps.

Hello Trace!

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It will take some time but you should see real results in 30 days.  This product is a natural deposit in the earth.  It is a mineral clay.  It works by increasing circulation, bringing energy to the site and supplying the area with minerals to heal.  

Please take pictures and post your progress!

Happy healing!

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This stuff is amazing.  It is totally natural and it works by helping your body heal rather than covering up the problem.

Please post pictures!

A "current" picture would help. They used to use gentle pressure to encourage the tissue to remold into a smoother surface, but it still won't look like "normal" skin.

How deep was the original burn?

Thanks everyone for the replies.  I'm willing to try all of them :)

Jay, I'll try to take a picture.  The burn was pretty deep, probably 1/4" straight in with a thin piece of metal.  Think "branded".

Raw grated potato. Poultice it on it for 45 minutes; depending on where it is use wax paper and some binding material to hold the potato in place; a cheese grater works grate for creating pototao poultice. It may not completely obliviate the scar, keep doing it until you see results; I will be curious to hear of your results if you try this.

I've heard of success with silicone patches, even for old scars.

I've heard onion juice is useful, as well as DMSO, aloe vera and vitamin E oil.

I see you've already had a lot of suggestions, I figure I'll go ahead and throw mine out there.  I was given this salve a few years ago by a friend.  It works great.  I'm currently using it on a burn scar, but it is a new one.  It is healing nicely and fading quickly.  

I used it on a scar a few years ago.  My skin had a pretty substantial dent in it and the scar was about two inches long.  The skin is now flat, the dent is gone and I have to look very closely to find the faint scar.  The scar was a about six months old when I started using it.

I use it as often as I remember to rub some on.  Especially at night before bed.

A lady in Tennessee makes it.  Here's a link to it
https://madeintheshady.com/products/herbal-healing-comfrey-salve-for-eczema-psoriasis-relief

The late Bill Rich, often referred to as “The MSM King,” figured out how to heal the very serious burn scarring which had gone from his ankle up to his knee on one leg.

The burn had occurred when his snubnose fan was in an accident in the van caught fire.

He couldn’t get out of the van until rescue arrived and by that time the skin on one leg had been very badly burned.

I knew Bill well and Hhe had been one of my cluclients, when I was working as a full-time natural health consultant. I learned a lot from him and he learned a bit from me.

Bill had been a Volkswagen mechanic but the scarring on his leg was so painful and unyielding that this tough little man would be in tears by the time he walked from the service bay to the parts area and back. He had to giveup his job.

I truly believe there are no coincidences. He was meant to discover what MSM could do. He was given a job sitting behind a desk in a tiny store front and he was the guy who took your money when people came to buy some health products.

DMSO was fairly new on the market back then, and MSM is what might be called an offshoot of that. MSM is a powder. It has other hellful uses bur I’ll should probably confine my gobby self to the scsr issue-lol.

I’ll keep the story as short as I can. Bill started mixing MSM powder with a high-quality food grade skin cream. He had nothing better to do in the long hours in between customers, so he would sit there and rub it on that burned leg every day to see if it could help.

It took time, but bit by bit the scar was replaced by healthy pink tissue. And by the time that had met him and was working with him, all that was left of that entire scarring was a very, very tiny light pink line. You had to look hard to see it.

MSM powder has to be mixed thoughtfully because it will take, much like DMSO, any impurities that it’s mixed with right into your bloodstream.

So you would want, I would say, a food ingredient, quality cream.

Bill had also sustained, I believe, a badly broken toe in the accident, but they were so horrified over his leg that no one bothered to check out his feet.

The toe where it joined his foot periodically bothered him for the rest of his life. When I would walk in to see him, he would have me go out to the showroom and pull off some MSM powder and a bottle of his high grade lotion. I would mix the two right in my hands and then slather it into the foot which was hurting. It always helped him.

He was walking, talking Proof that MSM can heal scar tissue.

That would be my best recommendation. I send
you my love and my best healing wishes.

Morning, Trace! I've had a lot of experience with burns. Was yours a 2nd or 3rd degree burn? How much surface area does it cover? Is there hair growing through it? How old is it? How old are you? Where on your body is the burn?

Besides topical ointments, (of which I recommend making your own) there are supplements and things you can do to physically manipulate the scar from the outside that will help your body remodel it. But which ones I would point you to depends on the answers to the questions I asked. I'm a massage therapist. I've helped burns heal from first aid stage to wound care until it closes, to reducing scars once the wound is closed. Big, whole appendage burns and complicated burns on hand or face surfaces, and smaller surgical scars. I do different things on them all. So let me know and I can be very specific. You're welcome to PM me if you'd rather.

Definitely, a cheese grater will make it worse.

Thank you everyone for your input!  Lots of stuff to look over.

Rebekah, I don't know if it would be considered 2nd or 3rd degree.  It was a thin piece of metal that basically branded me, maybe a 1/4" deep or a little more.  It has some hair growing through it now, it's probably 25 years old.  I'm 61.  The burn is on my stomach, a few inches left of my navel.  It's very slightly raised and doesn't tan.

Try comfrey salve with Fremescence and use coconut oil for your base in the salve, add beeswax to make it more of a salve. this works wonders on healing.

Many good suggestions here, especilly the DMSO and MSM.  Also I have seen rose hip seed oil help, topically.  For long term disappearance of scars the best results seem to be from removing oxalates from the body, first, which means not eating them anymore (goodbye potatoes, almonds, spinach, beets...) and letting the body slowly dump them out, which is an rather uncomfy process and one would do well to proceed slowly and methodically.  The healing results of deoxalating extend across the body and include healing up old injuries, including scars, but also healing organs, gut, skin, bones and nerves...in some cases even resolving "C" or at least aiding in that.   It takes many years, however one may begin to see positive results even within a few days of low or no oxalate dining.   I certainly did, within three days my chronic lower back pain from collapsed discs began to diminsh.  Some 6 months into this and the pain is almost gone and my thyroid and othe rparts are functioning better, enough so that I would say this is reversing the aging process (I am 60).    

The next thing, but only after serious detox and a good diet with plenty of animal protein so that one has excellent B vitamin reserves, is to undertake a seven day dry fast.   I have done this, and there is no doubt in my mind that it is the most powerful healing force on earth...surprising, in that it literally involves doing pretty much NOTHING for 7 days.  Its free, of course, which is one reason you wont hear much about it.  A bit of a challenge, which is the second reason.   What it will do is repopulate your entire body, all niches, with brand new baby stem cells, and in the proceeding years these cells will build a new and perfect you.   Including new skin with no scars.   And during deep autophagy scar tissue is one of the things the body "eats" when its doing repairs.   Its like recycling, only more perfect.  

But do a year or two getting rid of oxalates first, I strongly recommend this...and do your own research and some practice run shorter fasts so you know what to expect.   I refer people to Sally K Norton for oxalate research and aid, and to Dr August Dunning for the dry fasting protocols.  

Potatoe poultice worked great for me for new burns and left no scars. I have tried Bag Balm and it worked for an older scar but it was quite small. I have experimented with cold pressed hexane free organic castor oil with different essential oils (like Francinsence, etc) and also a combination of other oils with and without castor such as carrot seed oil, jojoba oil, black seed oil, sesame oil (was great), shea butter, batana oil {palm). I have skin cancer scars and scars from an operation on my face. The castor oil worked wonders for some of the wrinkles and is very deep penetrating and I feel it helped my cancer scars but I first had to get all the cancer out from under the skin. Now it is in the process of healing. It was quite deep. Beef tallow cream although a little oily for me, has improved the skin a lot. I have heard about Tepezcohuite for burns and restoring skin, but it is hard to find natural organic versions of it. I found some powder but haven't been able to mix it and try it yet. My biggest problem is time and consistency with self care. I travel and am too busy and I need to make time for self care and be very persistent with it. Aloe Vera has been good to me. It used to burn my skin, but I think because I make it myself and I found one organic one that I purchased, that the "real" stuff is helping me. I put that on first and then apply either the beef tallow or other oils. I have not revisited bag balm for my face. I used that on an old scar on my arm years ago, so maybe I should try it. There are two things I want to try : Hyssop and the other one is Helichrysum (maybe mixed with geranium) essential oil.  I have very fair skin with freckles and I used to burn in the sun often as a child. Good luck to you in your efforts!

Ok, Trace! Thanks for info!
I recommend physically manipulating the scar with your finger tips, pinching and lifting it in all directions and massaging it with medium pressure. That helps your body remodel the keloid scaffolding that's there. Even if it's an old scar like that. This will help it stop being raised up higher than your skin.

Because it's on your belly, I suggest buying massage cups to help you skin roll over the scar. Here's the ones I use, but any of them will work:

https://www.amazon.com/Set-Professional-Household-Silicone-Stronger-Myofascial/dp/B08ZSQ6Q8Q/?tag=pfa12-20

Anyways! I agree with using essential oils in a carrier oil/cream/salve. The essential oils that work for scars are frankincense, palmarosa, myrrh, Lavender. I use a salve for scars that I made from cottonwood buds: https://youtu.be/3OhxgQCYX9A?si=4WBDYZQYT8VRvFvH

If you can get a massage therapist to do fascia release technique, that's another angle. But you do a lot at home with the lifting/pinching/rolling.

Finally, do try fasting. It's a slower option, but can really help regenerate your skin.

Finally, I agree with the solution

Rebekah Harmon wrote:Ok, Trace! ...

Thank you!  More things to try.  I appreciate everyone's input, thanks all!