Contents
- D-60 before the swimsuit
- Priority to naturalness!
- Creams pleasant to apply
- At night is better!
- The right timing after pregnancy
- Cellu Slim Night Intensive Night Slimming Treatment, Elancyl
- Body Refirm Huile Anti-Cellulite, Biotherm
- Thalgo Firming Performance Cream Challenge
- 7 Nights Intensive Slimming, Somatoline Cosmetics
- Sérum Silhouette L’Or Rose, Melvita
- Express Slimming Cream with 18 Essential Oils + Puressentiel Caffeine
- Caféi Sculpt Slimming Concentrate, Lineability,
- CelluDestock Overnight, Chrono-Slimming Treatment, Vichy
- Detox Body Care, Filorga,
- Masvelt, Rebel Anti-Roundness Cream
D-60 before the swimsuit
No break this year! Today, thinness goes hand in hand with firmness. This makes the curves desirable and is obtained, of course with sport and regular exercises, but also with cosmetics. According to an Ipsos survey, carried out in December 2014 and January 2015, out of 2 European women aged 500 to 20, body firmness is the number one beauty concern for women.
Priority to naturalness!
The search for harmonious and reshaped curves is a real societal trend … as much as a more realistic desire, because if you know that slimming alone will not transform your silhouette, you have also been able to verify that in the applying regularly, you get a better skin quality, with a less “wavy” appearance, smoother and toned. De-infiltrated fabrics and sharper contours already make it possible to see oneself differently and to “inhabit” one’s body a little differently. Sometimes it doesn’t take much more to get back on your feet. Brands have understood this requirement. The 2015 vintage declares war on “slack”! By integrating new redensifying active ingredients of natural origin (extracts of quince, poppy or wild ginger, seaweed, etc.) in their formulas, associated with the essential caffeine, the new slimming treatments take up the challenge of reshaping the silhouette in one or two weeks. When it comes to caffeine, don’t focus on its percentage. The most important thing is that it penetrates, that it can cross all the layers of the skin, in order to reach the adipocytes lurking in the hypodermis (the deepest layer). The most efficient slimming products offer penetration boosters (salicylic acid, essential oils, etc.) which allow this large molecule to achieve its objective.
Creams pleasant to apply
More good news: they are no longer synonymous with discomfort. Enriched with shea butter, glycerin, vegetable oils… they offer, in addition to their firming and anti-cellulite actions, moisturizing benefits. Many products have been designed to be massaged. Spend some time there and use your closed fist to massage the thighs and buttocks, a very effective maneuver for toning skin fibers. Without fuss, most of the new products are “all inclusive” treatments that can be applied to all areas of the body prone to cellulite (stomach, arms, thighs, buttocks, calves, etc.).
At night is better!
Do you think we store more at night? Quite the opposite is happening! Fat loss takes place while we sleep. The latest scientific studies show that insufficient sleep (less than six hours per night) can disrupt this natural process. By causing the release of cortisol (the stress hormone) and by increasing the rhythms of satiety, poor quality of sleep has repercussions on our figure. In addition, it disrupts the functioning of certain “fat-burning” hormones, such as adiponectin. Even more surprisingly, a weight gain of around 5 kg in a year could be linked to insufficient sleep. Hence the interest, on the one hand, of adopting a healthy lifestyle: going to bed and getting up at regular times, having a light dinner, carrying out regular physical activity even in the evening, because we only sleep well if ‘we have had sufficient energy expenditure, treat the darkness by eliminating all light signals, practice meditation or sophrology … On the other hand, apply yourself before going to bed one of these nightly slimming treatments that will amplify destocking. The icing on the cake, their relaxing scent – to breathe in full awareness – encourages letting go. On the other hand, by applying them avoid too tonic maneuvers. Opt for a gentle and soothing massage, which can be part of a pleasant decompression ritual.
The right timing after pregnancy
If you are not breastfeeding, you can start tracking cellulite again about two months after you give birth. If you are breastfeeding, you can use slimming or draining oils, formulated without alcohol and (almost) always without caffeine, the latter not being soluble in oil. As a precaution, avoid essential oils and hydro-alcoholic gels with high percentages of caffeine. Nourishing and enveloping, the oils will allow you to gently reconnect with your body, with in addition a very pleasant well-being dimension (Mixa, Le Petit Marseillais, Garnier, Caudalie…).