Home Remedies for Stretch Marks

These home remedies for stretch marks will help you get rid of stretch marks anywhere on your body. Using natural remedies for stretch marks will help your skin look smooth and healthy.

Stretch marks occur when the skin stretches so quickly that the top layer of skin tears. They can happen as a result of weight grain, growth spurts or pregnancy. Here are some natural remedies to help fade them.

Vitamin E Oil

Vitamin E oil does wonders for stretch marks. Vitamin E makes the skin more elastic and helps skin cells regenerate. You can apply vitamin E oil to your stretch marks daily to help them fade. Don't just buy vitamin E capsules from the drug store, break them and put the oil on your stretch marks. That's synthetic vitamin E. Synthetic E won't work. You need to get a source of natural vitamin E oil.

You can also use oils and butters that naturally contain high sources of vitamin E.

• olive oil
• sweet almond oil
• shea butter
• cocoa butter

These are all good oils to use as natural remedies for stretch marks. I personally don't know anyone who has had success using cocoa butter alone on stretch marks but I find that a combination of these ingredients work well. A good friend of mine used sweet almond oil on her stomach when she was pregnant to prevent stretch marks from appearing and it worked.

You can mix 1/2 cup pure unrefined shea butter with 1/8 cup sweet almond oil or olive oil and 2 table spoons of rose water in a food processor to make a whipped shea butter cream that will help fade your stretch marks. Put the mixture on daily after you shower.

You can buy special stretch mark creams online but they're more expensive than making home remedies for stretch marks that use these ingredients.

Exfoliation

Exfoliate well in the shower with a loofah or shower gloves should by part of any stretch mark cure. Exfoliate will remove the top layer of skin that has been damaged by stretching too quickly.

Prevention

If you're using an oil or butter on your skin regularly that has a high vitamin E content, your skin will be more elastic and you'll be less likely to get stretch marks.

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