Even though on the store shelves you can find them throughout the whole year, just before summer starts marketing bombing with creams that “help” with losing weight, they help you get rid of cellulite and reduce the volume of your hips, behind, thighs, waist up to a few centimeters.
Thanks tho the available prices, many of the fairer sex, but also men nowadays, reach for them and they are mostly satisfied with the results, especially if they combine it with increased body exercising and consuming water and teas, for cleansing the organism, and various diets. Even though most of these creams contain natural with synthetic ingredients, many users reach for them because they are easy to apply.
Even though cosmetic care methods are well-known since ancient Egypt, anti-cellulite creams flooded the market in the middle of the 20th century, when for the first time some of the largest cosmetic companies have “released” them on the market, from France (that is in some way a country of beauty products, but also of face and body care), Great Brittain, Scandinavian lands, United States, and also Japan.
Today, most of cosmetic companies throughout the world have slimming creams in their offer, so they are available to everyone’s budget. Most of the manufacturers in their offer with cream, also offer various serum, day and night products and massagers and applicator that help the effect and facilitate application.
Is there a miraculous cream which can remove cellulite with simple regular application?
Pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies often say that in their commercials, and for people who don’t suffer from a big amount of “orange skin”, only applying the cream can help. So, everything depends from case to case, mode and regularity of the application.
In cosmetic salons the battle against cellulite is fought, with drainage devices and electrostimulation and creams, with which special areas are treated along with the message. If the message was good, in the area of the behind and legs, you will feel tingling and itchiness with redness appearing, which means that the circulation is working and “cleaning” from toxic substances has begun. For these symptoms some ingredients in the cream like menthol or pepper also take credit, and they help in thermoregulation. Persons that have problems with capillaries should avoid these ingredients because they enhance the problem, unfortunately.
Ivy and its extract are already being used in slimming creams as does caffeine. Ivy helps with microcirculation and degradation of the fat excess, and at the same time it prevents the forming of new fat. Caffeine is found in most of the creams because it has a powerful effect on the cellulite reduction. Already a known stimulus that usually keeps us awake, in this fight has a stimulating effect on circulation and with it increases excretion of toxins.
Those who are against creams and pharmaceutical products, in spite of many positive critiques, still advocate natural methods for reducing cellulite because, they consider, by buying usually expensive creams we waste money, because they contain the same natural products that we can obtain ourselves.
Those who tried natural methods, recommend a few recipes that are simple to make at home with very little effort and occasional walk in the nature. Ivy, which we already mentioned, usually works as a solution or a bath.
You can make the solution from 50 g of fresh ivy leaves, finely chopped, and one liter of water. It all needs to be put in a glass bottle, leave the solution to rest for 24 hours and then strain it. After every shower soak the parts that have cellulite with the solution and don’t wash it down until the next shower.
Ivy bath is prepared when you put 5 handfuls of fresh ivy leaves in 5 liters of boiled water and leave it to boil for half more hour. After that pour this into the bath water on 38 degrees Celsius. Add one kilo of sea salt and soak for 30 minutes once a week.
Caffeine cream is also easy to apply. Mix half a cup of grinded coffee with body lotion and two spoons of olive or almond oil. Apply this mixture to the parts with cellulite and leave it on for 30 minutes. If you wrap yourself in transparent foil after applying, leave the cream on for 10 minutes.
Whether you choose natural care or industrial creams, in fight against cellulite you need two more allies – right nutrition and a lot of water.