If there is a period in our lives when we likely to get stretch marks is pregnancy! While some women swear by the products recommended by their gynecologist, dermatologist or pharmacist, others, like me, are more focused on natural cosmetics. But we do not yet have any guarantee as to the result, these creams are mainly there to prevent, moisturize and tone up the skin.
Some women develop stretch marks from the 1st month, others in late pregnancy (75% last quarter). Some had a little before you get pregnant, then ultimately did not see anything at the end of their pregnancy. No rules. Just recommendations and products that moisturize the body parts that will be super stressed and also allow us to love this body that changes, moves and "smoldering" life!
They ask many questions about these creams. Here are a few tracks, but beware the advice of "Chris Doc Ego" can not prevail over an expert in dermatology, eh!
Should he start the application from the beginning of pregnancy?
Yes, because the body immediately starts to change. Not necessarily uniformly everywhere, for example, are more swollen breasts, bloated belly, not to mention water retention. Before applying a product, better still check the instruction manual that can be used early in pregnancy.
And when I apply my care anti-stretch marks?
We do not only focus on the belly, but the breasts that generally appear on the 1st and continue to rise (especially among those already at the base by a generous bust), the hips, buttocks and thigh. While one is tempted at times to buy a care tensor seeing our skin to relax the thighs and breasts in particular, it is really best to go for a nourishing.
How often to apply the treatment?
The morning and evening minimum, making small circular movements. It is recommended even three times a day the last month of pregnancy. Personally, I alternate between an oil in the morning after a shower and a generous and richer cream at night before bed. Especially we do not forget to continue its use after delivery, while checking if the product is recommended for lactation.
What new products on the market?
I tested three that I alternated so far.
Firming balm belly Beginning
This brand is none other than the company Maclaren. Yes, strollers and accessories! Certified by the Soil Association, this product is made from natural ingredients and organically grown. Its key ingredients? shea butter, various oils (sweet almond, avocado, mandarin orange, neroli and rose hip) and cocoa butter. The citrus scent is very pleasant, natural and conditioner. The texture is rich but not sticky. Special mention to packaging cardboard round with his little wooden spatula, hygienic and adorable.
This product can be found at the Galeries Lafayette or on site Want to Strawberry for 19 € for 60ml
The restructuring care prevention of stretch marks Melvita
Launched this year, the new range is Ecocert certified products consisting of three, including an anti-stretch mark oils of sea buckthorn, rose hip, baobab and thyme honey particular. This is probably the 3 new, care for the smell as neutral. A mixture of honey, milk and plants, very soft and light. Penetration is excellent, the skin feel very silky.
€ 26.90 the 200ml
The care anti-stretch Biolane Mom
Paraben, this treatment is based on organic argan oil with vitamin E and a complex of oils and proteins. This cream penetrates very well. Two things I really keen in this product: not smell very natural, remembering the smell of pharmacy and its tube not really glamorous. I agree that it is a product available, but it's a shame to make a cheap design.
Tube 200ml, € 9 for sale in medium and large
What are the basics?
I finally Annushka the same, which has also recently devoted an issue on the stretch marks are also concerned! And I share both his phone and his heart on Weleda Elancyl reservations.
Massage oil for stretch marks Weleda
At an application each morning, I started my 3rd bottle in the 6th month and frankly, this is an excellent product. It combines the benefits of different oils, namely, sweet almond, jojoba and wheat germ plus arnica extract. A sweet little marked, easy to work with an oil and apply glue, nor that task.
Between 18 and € 20 for 100ml in organic stores, and drugstores 
The rich cream of Elancyl
This brand, I know well having tested slimming creams. Now when you are pregnant, our desires change and we move away anyway perfumes (just because a thing can sicken us!) And color ranges from traditional body care. In this case, this product has a strong odor and reminds me of my slimming. In short, it seems more suitable for women with stretch marks suffered following a diet or preventing stretch marks when they are undergoing treatment. Moreover this product is recommended on the website of Weight Watchers is to say!
The 150ml € 18.60 at pharmacies and drugstores
Cream Triffadiane laboratories CS Dermatology
Spassiongirl has for its part, tested and enjoyed during her last pregnancy. Nothing very glamorous in this cream, which does not really feel super good for me. The feedback on the test also confirm Beauty, it seems that it is effective against by the correction of stretch marks. To you!
Approximately € 18 125ml tube
Otherwise, there is also Lierac and Mustela. I leave you to read my 2008 article about it here .
And if I do find one to one close?
Good ideas for cosmetics, they are often found in Britain. And this is my darling made me a surprise last week when I refer the nice kit kudos from the London brand founded by two moms BooBoo in 2008 who wanted to offer natural products, both sweet and pleasant to use that under.
Look at these products, as a killer in their design as in the uniqueness of product names that the choice of ingredients! qui me fait penser à l'odeur légère de sucette à la framboise, et enfin d'un bain moussant à l'huile de géranium rosat et de nénuphar , que je n'ai pas encore essayé. The cabinet consists of a body balm with shea butter, melting texture which immediately made me think of cosmetic "home made" a miracle oil or mixture of argan oil, sweet almond and passion flower that reminds me of the gentle aroma of raspberry lollipop, and finally a bubble bath with rose geranium oil and water lily, I have not tried it yet. It must be said that the baths are not recommended for women with very few vein problems during pregnancy.
Kit for sale on the website of the brand to € 50.75 + shipping
I certainly hope that this little review will guide you a little!
Calling all moms: what product did you use, or do you use to prevent or even correct stretch marks unfortunately if you have had?
At work (from pharmacies), when I have a request for advice to prevent stretch marks during pregnancy, I direct to Mustela. Because it's one I know best, I have positive feedback. Their products are compatible with breastfeeding and there is a wide range of care: for the bust, preventing stretch marks and post-pregnancy care.
Like you said, it is important to continue after delivery. Some of my clients have seen pharmacy their stretch marks appear post-pregnancy because they were arrested ... error.
(For me, the link to the article Mustela does not work ..)
This kit is really cute
Well it is true that I can give my opinion because I'm not concerned yet, but this kit is visually cabbage.
I am not concerned about these products but I had heard that prodigious Nuxe oil was great for preventing stretch marks.
This kit is superb boo boo, I will immediately go to the website.
I myself am not concerned yet, but these tips are good for the rest ^ ^ me too when I am pregnant and I would for sure stretch marks. lol
I have never used a product dedicated to stretch marks, because for me, nothing beats a good moisturizer ...
For the first pregnancy, I have sworn by the balm of tropical nuts and Spa Cinq Mondes.
Melting and feeding at will, it is the only product that relieved my itchy belly!
May be a bit much at the perfume, even if the entire component is completely natural ...
It's expensive, but really the product quality.
Otherwise, since the beginning of my second pregnancy, I turned on a basic, unbeatable price: moisturizing balm Olive & Sweet Almond Petit Marseille.
The sensation of applying the cream lightly all makes me melt!
It's a real fun time ... and paraben or palm oil, ladies!
Apparently it is also appropriate for the face ... but I did not try to apply it too in this area. Why not hands, for cons ...
In my opinion, a must have, pregnant or not!
Personally I have no children but I had when I was growing big problem of stretch marks (so it promises to pregnancy ...), so, I tried a lot of cream. On my skin the one that worked best is cream VIVHY - FULL ACTION STRETCH MARKS. It has blurred the 3/4 of my stretch marks and avoided it is emplifie. I use it for longer period in my moisturizer ^ ^
I love the packaging of products boo boo ^ ^
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For my first pregnancy, I used Mustela 9 months but I did not like the smell or texture and more, I had stretch marks ...
For the second pregnancy, I bought a big tub of cream Mixa intensive and I do not have any additional stretch marks.
There, I just entering my 5th month and I have to go get my oil Weleda pharmacy. Annushka convinced me
Otherwise I do not put anything there but it's about time!
I used Weleda products for both pregnancies, they are excellent. I strongly recommend them.
@ Sonia: thank you for all these recos! Until which month would you recommend using the cream after giving birth? I think I read three months. Also some brands then provide milk for body firming as Melvita
@ Mary: yes, it is tender. One could even think of it as a kit for birth daughter!
@ Montaw: you're right, this oil may be appropriate to share the richness of the vegetable oils it contains.
@ Nonotiteblonde: oh I do not want to tell you! Now when they are there, well, learn to live with, if you can not get rid of it! We all have imperfections, scars and other marks of life!
@ Marie: Ma'am thank you for sharing your heart shots here! The sensation is so important ... sometimes I have a big lazy evening, especially when temperatures drop, for me to reapply the cream. But if it becomes a pleasure, that the cream is oncteuse and tasty, the appointment does not lack!
@ Mayalili: great info, because ¾ of stretch marks, this is a good result! I'm not necessarily sure if we had a once in a lifetime of stretch marks, they respawn again or develop during pregnancy. I'd say it in a few months.
@ Jade: I told you, at all cute!
@ Missbrownie: oh yeah, do not deprive yourself of Weleda. It's great!
@ Smadar: have you tried other products that the massage oil in weleda? did you then continued with baby products?
I thought about you the other day! A Spa "Cinq Mondes" has just opened its doors in Geneva!
Inside the hotel Kempinski!
@ Aurelie: oh cool, I must go and test it on my next leap in Geneva, thank you for the info Aurelie (it is on familiar terms, perhaps?). Biz
Great post! But against whom you think is the best to prevent the appearance of new stretch marks (first due to growth), meaning that improves skin elasticity significantly?
Thank you! Good evening
@ Clemency: thank you for your com '. At the stage where I am, I can only describe the products in terms of texture, smell and sensation (skin that feels tight or not). But I can give you the name of a cream that can improve the elasticity of the skin significantly. To do this, we should have the results of comparative tests made on dozens of women. I'm very sorry ...
Yes I think three months is sufficient. After that, return to a simple moisturizer or a firming why not! What matters is to always moisturize.
Anyway I learned a lot about the brands that I did not know thanks to the comments, I take all that for later.
Great post! The Elancyl very successful, many girls are saying the property on the forums. Well I'm not a mom yet, but one of my cousins used the anti-stretch mark care of at Palmer's efficiency level .. but it was not that too lol. By cons, you can also turn to the natural: my mother used olive oil and shea butter and has none ... It may also depend on the skin of each
My pregnancy, I used cocoa butter body of Body Shop.
And after too! and now, four months after the birth of my son has all but disappeared!
to remember: Preventing there is the way to go!
@ Sonia: thank you for these tips! And delighted that this ticket could take you all other brands!
@ Cosmétonique: indeed, no rule. One can indeed just use shea butter (a lot of creams that contain cited in the article) or sweet almond oil.
@ Mamarine: thank you for your visit. If I understand you had some stretch marks during pregnancy, which eventually disappeared. That must be very pleased. I watch every morning and evening ...
Hello,
I'm your blog regularly and there I could not answer because you do not have to test several products I can give you those top home top. I have 3 ptits loulou I work in the marketin and like everyone else I have 3 minutes and a half to devote to my body a day! So I used the two products and special oil weleda pregnancy stretch mark cream integer mustela 9 months. and ZERO ZERO stretch marks but the weleda is just great, I recommend it to my friends heads, I tartinais much in late pregnancy because the skin was pulling me like 5/6 times a day. The budget was still salty because the oil is not given, and I put in more mustela cream which is really great too. Voilou, ptits my stuff, in case tt pr me it worked in spite of taking 18 kg each time
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peggy bizz
The pleasure is mine!
I feel like I'm going to enjoy myself for Christmas! And then who knows why not enjoy a treatment and then spinning eat sushi at Geneva's future Budha Bar opens its doors this week also! (Besides, I do an article soon!) A great weekend!
@ Peggy: thank you for your faithfulness and this first comment, I understand! I saw a box duo Weleda oil, but that is not consistent and not a coupon every store, as Mademoiselle Bio, proposes. Damage. 18kg for each of three pregnancies, well, your skin is super resilient!
@ Aurelie: thank you again for these tips. Enough to bury the life of a young girl while my girlfriend soon valaisane
Hello,
The kit "Congratulations Mummy kit" is égalemment sale on the site http://www.bebelicieux.fr .
My sister gave it to me at the birth of my daughter two months ago and love it!