Pregnancy and Stretch marks go hand in hand
Stretch marks are totally normal and natural after pregnancy. Furthermore, you probably won’t find even a single woman who didn’t struggle with stretch marks. Most commonly you have them on your stomach area, thighs, or even the upper arms. Also, these lines in the skin can be quite deep and are often very hard to get rid of.
Honestly, I just couldn’t accept having them for the rest of my life, so decided to do something for it. After searching a lot and consulting my doctor, I got plenty of suggestions to remove these marks. But then I decided to go natural! Instead of buying some lotions and potions I used some home remedies to lighten the scars of my stretch marks. This worked for me and had incredible results clearly visible after only four weeks.
Here I’ve rounded up 5 of the most promising stretch mark removal DIY tricks which I tried for myself. So read on to find what are these natural ingredients that can reduce the appearance of your stretch marks.
1.) Try Honey over the stretch marks
One simple treatment to get rid of these pregnancy stretch marks is to apply honey to the skin. It is the best natural moisturizer which is easily available and easy to slather. Honey is used in a number of body scrubs, face masks, and creams to exfoliate skin and remove dead skin cells.
You can apply honey directly over the stretch marks with cotton and wash it off after it settles down. Most of the ladies even use the mixture of honey and salt as a scrub to treat extremely dry skin, a condition that causes darkening of the skin.
2.) Prepare your own stretch mark cream
You can make our own stretch mark cream at home using some basic ingredients available in your kitchen.
For this, you will require some essential ingredients like Shea butter, Coconut oil, Cocoa butter, Rosehip oil, and Almond oil. Take a container and melt coconut oil, shea butter and cocoa butter in it at low flame. Then add Rosehip oil and almond oil to it.
Let it cool for some time, suitable for skin temperature. Now apply the cream over the affected area twice a day.
3.) Drink Lemon Juice regularly
Many citrus fruits such as lemon contain vitamin C and are best source of Hyaluronic acid. Foods rich in Hyaluronic acid not only improves the quality of the skin but also helps repair skin cells.
Rubbing lemon juice on the skin or drinking lemon juice in form of beverages regularly will help lighten the color of stretch marks because it adds moisture to the skin.
You can also add some sugar to this and scrub it over the stretch marks. This natural acidic fruit is overall beneficial to treat skin problems as it promotes re-growth of the skin cells.
4.) Eat a Royal diet
By royal I mean, include whole foods like pastured meat, poultry, organ meats, and eggs in your diet.
Not just these, you need to have some minerals and vitamins as well in your daily diet.
For this, you can add spinach, nuts, avocados, olive oil, seafood, and red palm oil to your meal. Indeed, a healthy diet is essential for a vibrant skin.
5.) Scrub Stretch marks with Coffee Grinds
Mix some coffee grinds with olive oil and prepare a paste. Now massage this paste into the problematic section of your skin for about 5 minutes. Do this about 3 times a week and soon you will notice a significant positive difference in your stretch marks.
You can also add Gotu Kola extract to the paste as it has been clinically proven to be the best ingredient for reducing the appearance of stretch marks.
Bottom Line
Since the “best” treatment for a person will depend on their unique skin type and depth of stretch marks, my list was created in no particular order. I just provided detailed information about some top remedies that can help you remove these scars. So now you can try them out and make a correct decision about the best treatment for your skin type.
It gets little tough to get these stretch marks removed after pregnancy. You can start remedies during pregnancy. It helps to a great extent. Coconut oil is very effective and skin friendly.
All the remedies work differently on everyone’s body. Every woman faces different conditions during pregnancy. I Used to do yoga regularly. I ate healthily and slept well. I hardly had any stretch marks. I used to apply coconut oil regularly on my skin. Maybe worked for me.
Tried many products but nothing helped me. I then switched to these home remedies even these didn’t show any magnificent difference. Now I have realized that its a natural thing that every woman go through. There is nothing to feel shame about it. I now live and love these stretch marks. These are signs of my motherhood.
I used dermalmd stretch mark serum several times a day during the second and third trimesters of my pregnancy. It kept my stretching skin from getting itchy, and I didn’t get a single stretch mark. I think a lot of times stretch marks are hereditary, and I didn’t gain a ton of weight, so it’s tough to say if this totally prevented them, but I definitely think it’s worth a shot! I’ll definitely use it during my next pregnancy.
Eating healthy will keep your skin healthy too, I workout daily I too have stretch marks but they are minimal and working out really helps keep them at bay. Workout Daily eat enough calories and healthy calories.
Thank you so much for these remedies, I am actually suffering from stretch marks, I would love to try some of these to see if they work out it would be great.
Does Home remedies work, I would say not much, But they can prevent various conditions and can also help in dealing with a present situation too. I have been using some home remedies after pregnancy and the best which works out for me is coconut oil and almond oil, I apply it thrice everyday and Massage it all over the prone area. I have seen significant reduction in the appearance of stretch marks. But as I said earlier Home remedies work to some extant.
Stretch marks are natural, And the fact that they cannot go away might scare most of us but as I have experienced stretch marks lightens with time and If you use certain home remedies like applying almond or coconut oil on them regularly they can even lighten up fast. But the fact is that once they are there, they will stay and stay forever.
Dermalmd stretch mark serum is perfect for removing stretch marks from pregnancy, weight loss, or weight gain. It takes a while to see any change but in about a month you will notice the difference. I had really dark red stretch marks on my stomach that I thought would never go away. Now my stretch marks are barely visible. It worked for me I loveee it.
Some people say that Stretch marks occur when your body grows faster than your skin can keep up with. This causes the elastic fibers just under the surface of the skin to break, resulting in stretch marks.
But I don’t believe this fact! If the baby grows normally then also you can have stretch marks. It’s natural, your skin stretches during pregnancy and you get stretchmarks, as simple as that.
I have heard the rest but never heard of rubbing coffee grinds over the stretch marks to remove them. I will try this for sure. Hope it works for me!