OK while we're on the home remedies..... among the many things that my wife rubbed on my trashed neck, was vitamin E, not a lotion, but the contents of capsules ment to be taken orally. You wouldn't believe the change it produced. It won't hurt anything, and topical application to those scars while they were healing seemed to speed things up and the resulting scar is VERY small. ( OK it's a foot long, but I mean it isn't bulgeing or swollen and raised.)