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Cellulite reduction products such as creams, serums, gels and liquids, heck, even some offer pills that claim to help with the reduction of the appearance of the stubborn spongy stuff, have quite a few ingredients in common usually. There’s a reason for that, and that is these ingredients have been demonstrated to have somewhat of an effect on the appearance of cellulite in the people that use it. Albeit it is usually a temporary reduction, but it nonetheless does seem to disappear from view at least reasonably for hours after application.
But are their ingredients that really help to tone and tighten, that you should look for when choosing the best cellulite treatment you can find, and do these products really make a difference? My belief is that they do, as a cellulite cream user myself, since I can definitely see a difference in the pitting and spongy look in my buttocks and thighs when I’m using the cream regularly vs. not using it.
First off, your cellulite cream should definitely have some source of caffeine in it. Where the caffeine is derived from it shouldn’t matter, but caffeine is one of the best surface toners out there, and models have been using the coffee grounds to reduce cellulite for a long time, however that’s messy and time consuming, so utilizing caffeine in a cream is best for those of us who don’t have time to mess with using used coffee grounds on our trouble areas in the shower every morning.
Many types of algae have been shown to have skin tightening properties, as well as helping to alleviate surface water from the skin, which just pushes the bulges out further, making the cellulite appear worse than it is and exacerbating the problem areas. Natural algae is not only great for cellulite, but also is therapeutic for the skin as well, so you get a two for one here.
Retinol and retinoids are excellent as well, as they are a derivative of Vitamin A, and they have great therapeutic properties for toning the skin and helping promote elasticity, something that is hindered by cellulite, hence the puckered look instead of a smooth look. Retinol is not only a great cellulite fighter, but is also excellent for the skin and is used in several top notch skin care products for anti aging because of it’s promotion of skin elasticity.
Well, for those of you that loathe that spongy, loose looking flesh that tends to accumulate so much on women in the same “problem” areas such as the hips, thighs and buttocks, and occasionally even the belly and lower legs (calf area), there may be some very exciting news in cellulite reduction. But brace yourselves, because it’s probably the most expensive cellulite treatment to date.
At a rate of about $4,000.00, you may have access to getting cellulite reduction that actually lasts, and also where results can be seen after just one session. Normally, cellulite treatments take several sessions to gain results, and then take monthly or biweekly treatments just to keep those results going, but this Thermage cellulite reduction treatment may be a little better than what’s currently out there when it comes to permanent results and quick ones too. It’s called the Thermage Therma Tip CL cellulite tool, and it’s bound to cause a buzz in the beauty and spa industry as soon as women see results after the very first visit, if it works as they company says it does.
Thermage is a system that has been used for a while now, and is usually used on the face as a means of anti aging and wrinkle control. It is a series of radio frequency waves and heat that are transmitted through the skin via a professional hand held device, and it supposedly can penetrate layers of skin more effectively than even the best layers currently can do.
This is why they are saying it is so effective at breaking up fat and helping rebuild collagen while improving the circulation and promoting blood flow to help break it up more, and why it is great for breaking up cellulite problem areas, and very quickly. The cost though is very high, and that is definitely a consideration and something that is casting it into the only-the-rich-can-afford stratosphere of beauty and personal care, so it may be very limiting, but often times when something is first introduced it’s astronomically prices and then comes down shortly thereafter.
Unfortunately, this is so new that I have not read any reviews or user experiences with the treatment yet, but I do know that many users complained about Thermage that had it done on their face, that it was extremely painful. This may be different though, since it is not being performed on such a sensitive area, and it may also produce a different set of feelings because traditionally where there’s cellulite, there aren’t many nerve endings of blood flow, which is why it bruises so easily, but which also may be why the pain could be totally tolerable in this area.
Body wraps are gaining popularity in the realm of body sculptin and shaping, as well as helping with cellulite reduction and shrinking of body parts like the butt, thighs and arms, all of which are common problem areas that are complained about from women, who are of course the most frequent seekers of quick fixes for body fat and downsizing since it’s such an emphasis for women to be thin and trim in today’s mainstream media.
So, do body wraps actually reduce you by inches as they claim? And if so, how does a body wrap work to do this? Well, I’m no expert on body wraps, but I have read about them and what they do to make it appear as though you’ve actually shed weight. By the way, the costs of body wraps today range from about fifty to one hundred dollars per treatment, so a series of treatments does not come very cheap, but if it works and you find you get results, it may be something you would add to your beauty regimen.
Body wrap professionals claim that what body wraps do is to minimize excess water weight by using compression. By wrapping the body in bandages and compressing the fat cells, they say this squeezes out excess water from between the fat cells, and makes them all get closer together, which makes you appear thinner. However, it should be noted that this is only temporary, and once the fat cells expand again, the body expands along with them.
It’s also important to note that body wraps do not actually reduce the fat cells, they only temporarily restrict them so as to shrink the body parts that are wrapped. Body wraps may use any number of natural or mineral solutions (creams or serums) along with the wrap, and these combined with the compression are what they claim makes your body compress and look thinner.
Body wraps are probably good for an event or some special time that you need to lose some inches for, but you may want to make sure that you go to a place that guarantees a loss of so many inches within so many treatments so you don’t throw money down the toilet, especially for something that is a temporary fix and is not going to permanently be around.
Another suggestion is to take a product like this revitol cellulite treatment and buy some ace bandages and just compress the areas yourself – it’d be a lot cheaper and plus you’d be in the comfort of your own home, plus it would provide a lot more treatments than you’d get for the price of one or two at a professional place.
I was trolling the internet a while ago and saw this treatment that was available at some, but very few and far between, spas and cosmetic dermatologists and surgeon’s offices that was designed specifically for cellulite reduction, called Velasmooth. I again saw it when I was doing some further research on mesotherapy, which is the injections that are supposed to make fat cells explode and be destroyed and subsequently excreted through your body’s natural waste elimination cycles, and also smart lipo, which is a fat removal treatment that uses a laser to destroy fat cells, allowing your body to remove them.
I grew curious, so I started to do a little more research on what Velasmooth is, especially since it was very recently approved by the FDA for the treatment of cellulite, and was now available for use by specialists on women who wanted to treat their cellulite. The Velasmooth system seems, from what I can see, to be modeled on the same premise as the endermologie cellulite treatment machine, in that it uses massage to break up the formation of cellulite lumps and bumps.
But it also goes a few more steps further than endermologie, which, who knows, may prove it to be more effective at reducing the appearance of cellulite than endermologie ultimately. However, it’s so new there doesn’t seem to be much information out there, so that verdict is still way far away from being reached.
The other steps that the Velasmooth system uses are radio frequency which is supposed to help break up the spongy appearance of cellulite, and also laser technology, which presumable makes it easier to break up the bands of collagen and the gel-like formation of fatty pockets that cause cellulite to look the way it does.
So, hopefully this newer system will prove effective, but I visited the website for the system itself, and there were only a few before and after pictures showing results, so I’m hoping the company and the people who perform the treatment with the Velasmooth device can come up with many more pictures to prove that the product has excellent results that justify the high end cost of the treatments.
I recently saw a report on cellulite, and how women are basically “stuck” with it. The report talked to a few cosmetic surgeons and dermatologists who believed that there were really no good methods currently to help smooth cellulite, but I happen to disagree adamantly on that assertion since I’ve seen dramatic improvement in mine from cellulite treatment cream combined with some good old fashioned discipline in massaging my problem areas either nightly or maybe even every other night (as much as I can, in other words).
The report explained that about 85% of women suffer from cellulite, whether they are thin or larger women. I happen to also believe that the number of women suffering from the orange peel look is closer to the mid nineties percentage wise, since I don’t think I’ve ever seen a woman without the spongy stuff - at least not one that hasn’t had some sort of treatment for celllulite.
It also went on to explain that the cause of cellulite is fatty pockets which are then strained by collagen bands beneath the skin, so it’s really not the deeper fatty tissue that is causing cellulite, it’s really the more superficial fat that is causing it, which is why traditional liposuction does not really help with the appearance of cellulite.
Also, for reasons thought to be linked to estrogen production, women are the most likely to suffer from cellulite, although a few men do as well. Women get the most severe cellulite in their thighs and buttocks, where circulation tends to not be as good because of the extra fat and padding in those areas.
They said that increasing circulation by getting daily exercise or some sort of physical activity in is good for cellulite, and of course massaging is good as well since it stimulate the circulation as well as may help break up the fat deposits and collagen bands that create the puckered look we all love to hate.
I think the best way to approach minimizing and reducing cellulite’s appearance is to lead an active and healthy lifestyle, reduce salty and fatty foods and complex carbohydrates, and make sure you massage those problem areas on a regular basis. If you get in the habit of massaging the cellulite stricken areas every night, then it will seem less like a chore, and believe me, you will see a difference, especially if you pair it with something that really works for skin tightening like the Revitol cellulite treatment cream (see reviews), one of my very favorites.
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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.
About two to three months ago I purchased, online, a cellulite treatment kit to try it out and see how it was. My conclusion on the product is two fold. While I still strongly endorse the use of the Revitol cellulite treatment, I still want to try different cellulite remedies, because that is, after all what I do on this site – experiment and try new things! So, please read my review that follows on the relatively little-known Green Canyon Spa Cellulite treatment product.
This cellulite treatment kit comes with two jars of product. One is called a cellulite reduction gel and the other is called a cellulite reduction cream. Now, I expected to notice a difference in consistency between the two jars of product, but I didn’t. They both looked and felt like a cream to me, so I wasn’t really sure what the difference was.
My only real complaint about the product which is rubbed in is that it never really seems to “sink in”, and you are left with a sort of sticky residue that can be a bit bothersome. Especially in the summer, so I’m glad it’s winter right now here in Ohio. The scent was pleasant enough, and the packaging itself is nice, so that always adds to the “feel” that you’ve purchased a quality product.
I can’t say I was particularly impressed with the cream, but I did love the tool they sent with it, which was one of those pronged massage tools that is great for massaging cellulite prone areas. This tool was my favorit part, and I still use it, although I quit using the product along with it. Massaging tools like this are excellent for cellulite prone areas, because they help to stimulate the circulation that is lacking in those areas, and which contributes to the appearance of cellulite.
All in all, the Green Canyon Spa Cellulite treatment was very reasonably priced kit, but the only part I really felt I’ve gotten value out of so far is the cellulite massage block. Let me know if any of your readers has used it and had any different (or the same) experiences with this product. Love to get other’s feedback!
I happened to purchase a bathing set a little while ago, and a little instrument came with it that I ended up using as a circulation stimulator to help reduce my cellulite, as a cellulite treatment, along with manual massage with my hands and a good circulation stimulating cellulite treatment cream. It has a wood base, with multiple rounded rubber prongs sticking out of it, about a half inch in length, perhaps a little shorter.
You’ve probably seen these many times in bath kits, or you may have even purchased a bath kit with one in it for someone else around the holidays, since bath an spa kits seem to be a popular gift around the holidays these days. It looks almost like a paddle brush, without the handle. It often has a cloth strap so you can hold it on your hand a bit more securely when you’re using it to massage the skin.
The way I use it as an addition to my cellulite treatment regimen, is I apply my cellulite reduction cream to my thighs and buttocks, where most other women get this unfortunate texture, and let it sink in for a moment. I don’t apply too much so that it will be a slick surface when I massage with the tool, but enough so that it will allow it to glide a bit more easily over my skin without painfully gripping it.
I then take the paddle and I apply a medium pressure in an upward motion, toward the heart. You should always do your massage on cellulite in an upward motion. You are trying to sculpt the thighs in an upward way, instead of encouraging the tissue downward, so that you get more smoothness and are also encouraging the tissue to stay up, rather than sage – which is definitely NOT what you want.
I do this regimen for about five minutes on both legs total and the buttocks, every night, or every other night, depending on if I have the time or feel like doing it. I do think that it helps smooth the appearance of the cellulite, because I have seen an improvement since using this tool as a massager. It helps to break up the fatty deposits that create the puckerd look by essentially forcing them apart.
Don’t be surprised if you’re a little bruised when you first start doing it. Fat tends to bruise very easily, and this part of your body is not used to pressure, so it will probably easily bruise. Don’t worry, it should subside fairly quickly, since it is pretty much a surface bruise and does not go too deep under the skin.
I said a few days ago how I was going to be doing a little experiment on doing your own body wraps “on the cheap” in your own home using simple medical Ace bandages which can purchased dirt cheap online and in stores, and a high quality cellulite treatment cream in combination. The theory behind this is that the compression, combined with the herbal ingredients that actually tone and firm skin, will help to smooth out the lumps and bumps on the rear end, thighs and tummy, even if only temporarily.
Well, the reason I got this idea was because I recently went and had a thermal or infrared body wrap, by a company called Formostar, that I believe is based in Germany. Well, to clear that up, they are the manufacturers of the product I was treated with, but I actually went and got it done in a tanning salon called Northcoast Tanning, which I highly recommend – great service, great pricing, and quality, in nearby Stow Ohio, where I live.
I was surprised to see that this was one of the only locations in all of Ohio that offered this seemingly effective weight loss and body sculpting treatment, but to be honest I only found out about it by stumbling upon it while searching for my sister online to find a location around me that she could get a body wrap done while she was in town from California. I was glad I did stumble on it, because when I did a little more research online about the Formostar wrap system, I found that the logic behind it made sense.
Although the treatments are admittedly pricey, if it works, it could be a great jump start for anyone looking to lose inches or loose cellulite and regain smoothness. The therapy I am having actually involves the infrared body wraps and an endermologie-like system called GX-99 that uses massaging heads to then get the cellulite smoothed out.
Supposedly, in combination, these two work great to smooth out your rear end and thighs, the typical problem areas that women have and always hate to look at in the mirror – yep even “skinny girls” get it too! I have yet to have the GX-99 performed, but will be able to once I’ve completed two of the Infrared wraps. Let me tell you, if you do not like heat, sweating, and saunas, this is not for you.
The whole idea is to heat the outermost layers of fat on the body to a temperature where the tissue is detoxified, and you will SWEAT like you’ve never sweated before. I must say, that although I didn’t find the actual treatment to be pleasant (well, the first twenty minutes of the fifty minute treatment are fine, but the last 30 or so are rough because you really are hot), I felt very refreshed, and somehow invigorated afterwards. I wasn’t drained from the heat and sweating like I thought I would be. I do feel that it has improved my skin texture after just one treatment, and I feel “detoxed” as well.
Supposedly, you start to see results sometimes after just two thermal wraps, but we have yet to tell that. I will keep you posted on the whole experience of course, and then I will also keep you posted on my other cellulite treatment experiment that I’ll be doing on myself at home in the next month or so.
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