Woman’s Passions

Smooth, healthy skin, well-groomed body - this is every woman’s dream. You need to do a lot to approach to this dream and take care of your own beauty constantly, without any breaks. Many women can fail fixing themselves up by beach season, but they should start their struggle for beauty since today.

Not all changes in a woman’s life dissapear without leaving a trace for our delicate skin. Childbirth, quick weight changes, long medical treatment leave annoying marks on it. Most often these unattractive defects appear on belly, hips, breast. We call them stretch marks.

Stretch marks - are a result of microtraumas of skin and cellular tissue. This cosmetic defect of skin appears because of elastic epidermis fibres damage. Elasticity and flexibility of skin reduce, it becomes so thin, that small blood-vessels, situated in its facing, become visible by naked eye. Slight internal tearts are filled with conjunctive tissue with time. Firstly stretch marks are of violet-reddish color, and in further they become light-pink or colorless. They are especially visible after sunburn, as conjunctive tissue contains no pigment.
Well, it’s very unpleasant to have a striped body, but you shouldn’t be afraid of stretch marks, they are not an ugliness, neither illness, they don’t scare stronger sex away, in a word, they do nothing bad. By the way, probability of their appearance is not so high, moreover, we can struggle with them.

One of most popular reasons of stretch marks - is pregnancy. That’s why women, bearing babies, need to listen to doctors’ advices attentively. It’s easy to observe them, and the main is that due to useful advices you can relieve your future efforts in elimination of stretch marks after delivery.

During pregnancy you should wear special bras and bandages, which protect skin and muscles from stretching. To keep your breasts look, rub them with a bath towel, moistened in cold water, or with ice cubes, starting from fourth month of your family way. Alternating douche is also good in this case. You can finish procedures, rubbing your breasts with lemon slices. Try to find daily possibility to bare your breast on fresh air for several minutes. Air baths affect skin condition very positively.

A famous French actress Sophie Marceau used oil against stretch marks during pregnancy. She rubbed olive oil with vitamin E in her breasts regularly. According to her opinion, this simple remedy helped her to avoid stretch marks and keep beautiful body after childbirth.

It’s easier to prevent stretch marks, than struggle with them hard. The main principle, which forms complex of preventive measures - is support of skin elasticity, which depends on presence of necessary quantity of collagen and elastin in conjunctive tissue. This can be reached due to eutrophy, massage, usage of professional creams and gels. Maintenance of stable weight is also very important: quick weight fluctuations contribute to appearance of stretch marks.

 

Just in case, as preventive measures, it is recommended to take bath with additon of a table spoon of pine needle extract to smooth out skin. Enjoy felicity during 15 minutes, water temperature is 38C.
Try such method: stir 350-500 g of starch in 2-5 liters of cold water, and pour it into your bath.

If you eat food, rich in mineral substances and vitamins, appearence of stretch marks on your skin will threaten you to a lesser degree. Dairy produce will provide sufficiency of calcium, fish will fortify your organism with fluorine, and tomatoes and bananas - with potassium. You should also include soybean and olive oil, vitamins A and E in your food allowance.

Blood stagnation in problem areas in inadmissible. You can reach it through plucking massage: massage your belly area, hips, buttocks and breast using plucking motions every day.

Alternating douche has a beneficial effect: massage your problem areas using circular motions with cold and warm streams by turns. Rub oneself briskly with a bath towel and rub a special anti-stretch marks remedy in your skin using circular motions.

Physical exercising will help to warm up blood - running, rhythmic walks, jumps with a skipping-rope will strike at the weak points of stretched skin, make it elastic and beautiful.

To keep breast beautiful and elastic for years, you need to take care of it from your youth. And regular gymnastics is necessary for it - exercises, aimed at development and strengthening of breast muscles. A new day should be started with water massage: douche firstly one breast with a shower, then another, from top to bottom clockwise, then circle-wise. Don’t direct stream straight on nipples. Change water temperature seevral times, alternating warm with cold, but finish hydrotherapeutic procedures with cold water.

Contrast compresses will help to struggle with flabby breast skin, dappled with stretch marks. You will need two basins (with hot and cold water) and a bath towel. Dissolve 1 tea spoon of kitchen salt in hot water, and 1 tea spoon of lemon juice in cold water. Moisten a towel in hot water, squeeze it out and put to breast for 30 seconds. Then remove and moisten towel in cold water, squeeze out and put to breast again for 1 minute. Repeat this procedure 5-6 times, last compress should be cold.

After contrast procedure wipe your breast skin with a lotion you should prepare beforehand: pour 2 table spoons of rosemary with 4 glasses of cold water, put on fire, bring to the boil and cool. Filter decoction, add 2 tea spoons of kitchen salt, 2 tea spoons of pure alcohol and 4 tea spoons of lemon juice.

Lotion of fennel and lime flowers will also help. Mix 1 table spoon of pounded green of fennel with same quantity of lime flowers, pour with 1,5-2 glasses of boiling water and leave for 2 hours. Then filter and apply on problem areas, where skin is flabby, with stretch-marks. Lotion should dry out on skin without using a towel.

Watch your bearing - it prevents breast from premature ageing: straighten your shoulders, throw out breast, gather in stomach. Watch your bearing both during walking and when you sit down.

Breathe deeper. Our thorax develops correctly only when we breathe deeply and the right way. Take up to 20 deep sighs and exhalations in front of an open window in the morning and evening. Don’t forget to watch your correct breathing during whole day, this way you will soon get used to it and then you won’t have to control yourself.

Swim more. If you have a possibility, swim all the year round, in summer - in reservoirs, in winter - in a swimming-pool. Swimming is one of the most efficient methods of struggle against stretch marks. While staying in water, you can combine special exercises, aimed at increase of breast, belly, hips and shoulders elasticity, with swimming.

Nourish your breast skin. Breast skin needs moistening and nutrition not less, than facial skin, neck and hands… It’s good to rub a moistening or nourishing cream in your breasts once a week after bathing, and then do warm compress, using a bath towel. Leave compress for 15 minutes, then rinse breast with cool water. Use creams, containing soy, horse-tail, ginseng, hop, mint. Natural components of these plants help keeping skin toned, increase regeneration of conjunctive tissue, contribute to increase of elasticity of fibers, i.e., give what is necessary to remove stretch marks.

The main thing in your struggle against stretch marks - not to waste your time. Compresses with essential oils you can cook at home help to struggle with small quantity of stretch marks on early stage (no more than 1,5 years).

You will need a gauze tissue of your problem area size, which you will treat. Mix 4 drops of attar of roses, 2 drops of neroli oil, 1 drop of limette with 1 table spoon of kefir. If this is not enough for compress on a certain area, increase quantity of all components in proportion. Moisten a gauze tissue in this mixture and apply compress on a problem area for 7-8 hours. Carry out this procedure 3-4 times per week during 3 months, in 1,5-2 months you will be able to see first obviously noticeable results.

Camomile will help to struggle against stretch marks. Boil a handful of flowers in 250 ml of milk. Moisten thick material in warm mixture and wrap your problem area up in it. Put a film on top and warm with a bath towel. Leave compress for 15 minutes. After it don’t rinse your body, but wipe and apply cream.

Exchangeable compresses of camomile decoction or extract will help to keep skin elasticity, reduce its sagging and stretching. Recipe of decoction: pour 2 table spoons of dry flowers with a glass of water and boil for 10 minutes, cool and filter. Water extract: pour 2 table spoons of camomile with a liter of boiling water, filter in 20 minutes. Everything is ready and you can apply compresses. Fold up a linen tissue in the form of scarf, moisten with warm camomile extract, squeeze out quickly and wrap your problem area up in it. Leave hot compress for 3 minutes. The moisten a “scarf” in cold decoction, squeeze out and apply for 5 seconds again. Change compress 3 times, do this procedure once a week.

In home conditions you can also try using anti-stretch marks creams, which you can buy in drug-stores. Do plucking massage with their help, regardless of the fact it causes sensations of pain, it’s very efficient: apply cream on stretch marks and pinch carefully, seizing up skin with a thumb and forefinger.

Really efficient remedies, helping in struggle for smooth skin, are rather expensive. As a rule, respectable companies, specializing in manufacture of medicinal cosmetics, produce them. Such creams and gels contain essential oils, vegetable extracts, in particular, citrus, collagen and elastin, phytic and tartaric acids, contributing to increase of elasticity and resiliency of skin. You cannot expect quick results, all remedies require long and regular usage - one tube won’t be enough. Indeed, result of stubborn fighting can justify all expenses.

It’s much more difficult to remove long and inveterate stretch marks from your body. In this case home procedures won’t help already. Professionals from beauty salon will offer to carry out micro-dermabrasion (special peeling of skin) or quite expensive procedure of laser treatment.

Skin abrasion - is an optimal method of treatment for stretch marks: they fade, become thinner and even dissapear constantly. Indeed, such happy-end is possible only if all measures were undertaken forthwith. There’s also a method of stretch marks resection, it allows getting rid of stretch marks in case, when they were caused by pregnancy. Negative side of such surgical operation - is long and painful healing of treated areas.