Healthy Revelations Body Wraps Review (So Far)
I have to admit, I’m a sucker for beauty products that sound too good to be true, and I did order one that was actually overpriced I felt, and that I thought would probably help me to shape my thighs, which I always feel are a little too curvaceous for my frame, but I’m not really willing to diet them away since they are very hard to get rid of and other parts of my body have to shrink considerably before they go away.
Smart lipo was looking like a great option for me to get rid of my saddle bags for a while, but I have to admit the idea isn’t all that appealing to me at the moment, and the cost isn’t either, so I was surfing for something to at least help me sculpt my thighs into submission so that I could fit into some of my cute summer clothes that I used to be able to again.
That’s when, somehow in my surfing, I came across a site that sold body wraps that would supposedly help you lose inches or some sort of girth off of your stomach, thighs, or wherever it was that you would apply them. I saw that they sold them for the chin area, since lots of men and women have problems with excess fat under their chins, and then they also sold wraps specially made for the belly area as well as the thighs.
One thing I didn’t like was that after I had paid a high price for them, and I bought two units already, they took me to a screen which offered me additional products, the exact same things, only marked down considerably. I thought, well hey I would have ordered more if I’d been given the chance to at this price, but that’s reallly neither here nor there since this is a product effectiveness review of the body wraps.
The wraps come carefully wrapped in separate plastic bags, and you must peel them apart to reveal their full size once opened. They smell very strongly of menthol, which makes sense, because the herbal ingredients they say they contained must have menthol usually in order to penetrate the skin fully and go to work. Menthol is a known agent to absorption transdermally (under the skin), so it is used widely in patches and wraps to get ingredients, whether they be pharmaceutical in nature or herbal, to penetrate as deeply as possible.
I used ace bandages to keep my wraps on my thighs, and although they didn’t cover my entire problem area, I thought they covered enough. I wrapped them tightly since the directions say to make sure they are tightly adhered for at least an hour, if not overnight. I chose to wear them overnight, which was a little rough, considering they kept sliding around and the menthol smell was very strong, so my boyfriend wasn’t too pleased that the whole bed smelled.
However, I must say that it “feels” like it’s doing something while it’s on there, and in the morning when I woke up, I swore that my thighs did shrink a bit. I’ve used 3 wraps so far, 3 nights apart as indicated, and I have 3 more to use. I am not going to use them all consecutively though, since circumstances prevented me from doing this already, and I want to test it better next time and take measurements to see if they indeed do take inches, heck even centimeters off of my thighs.
It is unclear the mechanism by which this works, and I’m always a little suspicious of products that claim to work yet don’t make clear how they actually work, but these do seem to be somewhat effective, if not a little expensive. I’ll keep you posted on my next round with these, measurements and all! Oh as far as cellulite treatment goes, I’m not sure they help with that at all, but I’ll let you know if I notice a difference with these next three wraps.
