what is the best cream to use for stretch marks when your pregnant. i hard it was Clarins but any tips?

Answer 1

Vitamin E oil

Answer 2

Here's a bit of info for you chuck stop you spending a lot of cash,
What are they?
Stretch marks look like thin, stretched tissue, and that is more or less what they are. They appear in people who put on or lose weight rapidly. The upper layer of the skin is normal, but in the lower layer the collagen and elastin, which give the skin its strength and elasticity, have become thinner and broken. At first, the marks look reddish-purple. This is because the stretched skin is more transparent and the small blood vessels that lie deep in the skin show through. Later, the blood vessels contract. The purplish colour then fades to white, which is simply fat under the skin showing through.

Who gets them?

Stretch marks often appear on the breast and abdomen during pregnancy. The reason is partly hormonal. During pregnancy, hormones have the job of softening the collagen ligaments of the pelvis, so that the tissues can stretch easily during childbirth. Unfortunately, the skin collagen softens as well, allowing stretch marks to form easily.
Some women have weaker collagen than others, so are more likely to get stretch marks. Recent research suggests that if you have stretch marks, your pelvic floor ligaments may be slightly weak, so it is very important to do pelvic floor exercises after childbirth to prevent incontinence of urine.
Yo-yo dieters and bodybuilders can get stretch marks on the upper arms, chest and thighs.
Growing adolescents can get them on their backs, where they look like a series of horizontal lines.

Preventing stretch marks
Try to avoid yo-yo dieting. If you are overweight, aim to lose it slowly (do not aim to lose more than 0.5 kg (1 lb) a week).

If you are pregnant, there is not much you can do except keep your fingers crossed and think, “this is a small price to pay for a beautiful baby!” Rubbing baby oil into the abdomen each night might help. Various special creams and oils are promoted for preventing stretch marks, but there is no proof that they are effective.

Curing stretch marks
Stretch marks are permanent in the sense that the skin in these areas will never be completely normal. However, after a time they contract down into much less obvious, thin, whitish scars.

Collagen creams claim that they will improve stretch marks. There is no evidence that they do so. In fact, collagen and elastin put onto the surface of the skin can not penetrate into the deeper layers.

Cocoa butter cream, which is available from pharmacies, is often recommended to soften scars, so might be worth a try.

Answer 3

I used pure shea butter, and it worked well - - never got a stretch mark.. I hear that there really isn't any cream that will prevent that, but I think it's best to keep your belly moisturized so that the skin has it's best chance! ;) The Body Shoppe makes some really good thick creams with a high shea butter concentrate. Happy pregnancy!

Answer 4

Bio Oil is supposed to really help with stretch marks, scars etc so it would be good to start now and carry on after the baby...failing that coco butter or shea butter.

Body shop do a good shea butter but if it were me would opt for the Bio Oil

Answer 5

Clarins is a good choice. Also Cocoa butter of The Body Shop is good. Good luck with your pregnancy!

Answer 6

Good old Coca butter. I also used Avon solutions for the body when I started selling I was prego. They make an Anti Cellulite and stretch mark cream called Super Shape(16.50). They also have re-fine stretch mark smoother($12.50)You can check them out and read for yourself at the link below. Sometimes I have specials on products ,so you might be able to get them cheaper or buy one get one, so on ......

Answer 7

Bio Oil

Answer 8

Victoria Beckham uses the Mama Mio range especially for pregnant women - you can buy it at hqhair.com. I think they have a stretch mark cream

Answer 9

My post pregnancy tummy is stretch mark free and it is owed to palmers cocoa butter. You can get it from Boots at around £5, probably even less. Its great, so rich. Yum!

Answer 10

i heard that palmers cocoa butter was best but i just used baby lotion all through my pregnancy n i never got stretch marks n when u have a bath use a moisturising bath soak

oh n dont use soap it dried my skin ut n made me itch