How To Reduce Stretch Marks With Natural Home Remedies?
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Most of us have small lightning strike like scars on our body that we call stretch marks. They’re incredibly common and there’s nothing wrong in having them.
But if you’re not very fond of these lines on your body, we’re here to show you ways you can avoid them and suggest home remedies to reduce their appearance.
Causes Stretch Marks
Stretch marks are caused by a sudden change in your body due to weight loss or gain, pregnancy, muscle building, or even when you hit puberty. They generally appear when the skin stretches quickly, collagen levels change and skin’s elastic tissues are damaged. Stretch marks appear wherever your skin can stretch but are most common on the breast, hips, thighs, and butt.
Tips to avoid
- While there is no foolproof way to avoid stretch marks altogether ,you can try to avoid them by maintaining
- Your weight in a healthy range
- Exercise regularly
- Eat natural sources of omega 3 like flaxseeds,fish,walnuts and even soybean.
- Don’t forget Vitamin D If you experience severe itching, try keeping your skin moisturized and supple with the help of body butter or oils.
Home remedies
The Power buff
The grains of sugar are mild natural exfoliators and scrub away dead skin cells found over stretch marks to enable blood circulation and heal the broken skin cells.
- Take 1 cup of sugar and add ½ a cup of coconut oil. Coconut oil seeps deep into the skin, hydrating it and reducing healing time for stretch marks as well.
- Top it off with a juice of half a lemon as it helps increase collagen levels for your skin.
Start scrubbing onto your stretch mark sin circular motions and then rinse.Repeat this twice a week for best results.
The Aromatherapy
Essential oils such as lavender oil, argan oil, and frankincense oil, are known for their healing properties as they help improve skin’s elasticity, boost collagen levels nourishing it with proteins that condition your skin and keep it soft and supple.
Mix any one of these oils with a carrier oil such as almond, coconut or jojoba oil and rub the concoction onto your stretch marks in circular motions.
