Lumps and dimples on the thighs and buttocks appear in most women of different sizes and ages. There are many ways to get rid of a cosmetic defect. These are salon procedures, gymnastics, diet, massage and others. Wrapping with cling film against cellulite is especially popular among girls. They allow you to speed up the process of eliminating extra pounds at home.
The benefits of wraps with cling film
Cellulite (or lipodystrophy) is not an ordinary accumulation of fat, but a sign of poor circulation and fluid stagnation in problem areas. As a result of such deviations, subcutaneous fat loses its structure. Its cells become deformed, grow, and are unevenly distributed. The body becomes covered with tubercles, the skin lacks moisture and nutrients, begins to become rough, and flakes off. An “orange peel” effect appears.
The sooner you start fighting the flaw, the greater the chance of returning your body to a young, attractive appearance. Elimination of cellulite manifestations should be comprehensive. To achieve results, you need to do exercises every day, eat right, drink enough water, and give up bad habits.
External procedures provide significant assistance in restoring beauty: applying special creams, masks, wraps. The latter are recognized as the most effective way to improve skin quality. The active components of manipulation mixtures cope with the main causes of cellulite.
A course of warm-up sessions can be completed at a beauty salon, but it is quite expensive. Anti-cellulite wraps done at home are no less effective.
To do this, you will need a mandatory auxiliary element - cling film. Thanks to it, the so-called “greenhouse effect” is created. Pores open up and sweating increases. Accordingly, the dermis is freed from waste, toxins, and excess fluid. They normalize blood circulation and lymphatic drainage, and activate metabolism at the local level. Cells renew themselves faster. The skin rejuvenates, becomes soft, strong, and elastic.
Film wraps should not be taken as the main way to lose weight. It acts directly on the integument, and not on the fiber. If you do not adjust your lifestyle, the defect and volume will quickly return. To fully correct your figure, thermal procedures must be combined with other methods of losing excess weight.
The essence of the method
Cellulite is not just the deposition of excess fat under the skin. “Orange peel” appears as a result of swelling and impaired microcirculation in the tissues.
Wraps remove excess fluid from the subcutaneous tissue and improve blood circulation. As a result, the skin smoothes out and becomes more elastic. The volume also decreases. In one wrap you can lose up to 1 cm in waist or hip circumference.
Advantages
The technique has a number of undoubted advantages. The main ones:
- quick (albeit short-term) achievement of results. In one session you can remove a couple of centimeters from your waist;
- effectiveness of the method. Wrapping with cling film helps all girls, since its work is based on the physiological characteristics of the human body;
- ease of execution. The procedure does not require large physical and psychological resources, such as playing sports or following a diet;
- affordability;
- Possibility of conducting sessions at home.
The procedure helps you relax, relieve stress, and improves your mood.
Types of wraps
Procedures are divided into two main types, depending on the temperature effect. They work in different ways:
- hot ones warm up the integument at the local level. The body's defense mechanisms are activated. Pores and blood vessels expand, blood flow is activated, oxygen enrichment of cells improves, and fat breakdown accelerates. Through the pores, lipids, as well as excess liquid, harmful substances come out;
- cold manipulations have a different operating principle. The body, trying to warm up, begins to intensively consume fat reserves. Cold causes spasms of peripheral blood vessels, waste products, toxins, and breakdown products enter the kidneys and liver through the bloodstream and are then excreted from the body.
Hot wraps help better in the fight against cellulite, but they have more contraindications. Cold - they act sparingly, suitable even for patients with varicose veins and cardiovascular diseases. They are recommended for people who spend most of the working day “on their feet” (for example, salespeople, waiters, surgeons, hairdressers). Cold relieves fatigue well and strengthens vascular walls.
What components are used for anti-cellulite wraps?
To carry out the procedure, you can use the simplest ingredients, or special cosmetics with a warming effect, which will be much more active under the film.
The following components are considered the most effective and beneficial for the skin:
- Natural honey dilates blood vessels, removes harmful substances and cholesterol, eliminates congestion and swelling, saturates the skin with vitamins, smoothes and nourishes it.
- Algae (kelp) break down fats, tone and nourish the epidermis.
- Essential oils improve metabolic processes, remove excess fluid and toxins from tissues, and increase tone.
- Blue clay smoothes the skin, breaks down fat cells, accelerates regeneration processes and removes fluid.
- Chocolate rejuvenates and tones, and has a lifting effect.
- Apple cider vinegar very quickly removes excess water in tissues.
- Cinnamon warms and enhances blood microcirculation, renews cells, and relieves inflammation.
- Mustard activates the processes of subcutaneous fat breakdown, which are enhanced due to the burning properties of this product.
- Ground ginger removes toxins and improves metabolism.
- Coffee grounds increase blood circulation and reduce cellulite.
- Green tea tones and promotes the destruction of fat cells.
You can also apply anti-cellulite cream to problem areas, which under the film has a more intense effect on cellulite and excess fat.
Best Recipes
To carry out a home wrap with cling film, you need to prepare a special mixture for application to problem areas. There are a lot of recipes for such masks, here are the most popular ones:
- dilute 100 g of cosmetic clay with heated mineral water to a paste-like state. Pour in three drops of grapefruit essential oil;
- heat 1 glass of milk in a steam bath, stirring constantly, add 1 glass of liquid honey, 1 tsp. cinnamon powder;
- 3 tbsp. Mix powdered ginger with 3 tbsp. vegetable oil;
- Brew 100 g of freshly ground coffee in 50 ml of boiling water, combine it with 50 g of kaolin, 50 ml of hot water, 20 g of olive oil, 2-4 drops of orange or rosemary ether. Coffee in this recipe can be replaced with green tea;
- mix 5 tbsp. grape juice, 1 tsp. honey, 2 tsp. any nourishing cream;
- 2 tbsp. dilute mustard with hot water, add 2 tbsp. vegetable oil;
- Melt two squares of dark chocolate or 50 g of cocoa powder in a water bath. The mixture should have a consistency similar to thick sour cream. To increase effectiveness, you can add ½ tsp to it. hot pepper;
- Dilute apple cider vinegar with water in a 1:1 ratio, pour in 2 drops of mint extract. Soak the bandages in the resulting solution, apply a compress to the problem area;
- steam 100 g of algae in 100 g of mineral water. When they swell, mix with cosmetic clay previously diluted with water in equal parts;
- take ground hot pepper, crushed nutmeg, essential oil of cayenne pepper (5 g each), 1 tbsp. cream, 2 tbsp. olive oil, 100 g fresh honey. To stir thoroughly.
What does this method of losing weight entail?
Wrap the area treated with the product in 2-3 layers of film; do not tighten it too tightly, otherwise blood will circulate poorly. You don’t have to sweat under the covers, you can do household chores or exercise yourself, the main thing is to be in a warm room. After wrapping, you may feel slight discomfort; this is normal and you should not be afraid of it.
Wraps give good results if done correctly. The entire session is carried out in three stages:
- Skin cleansing. Before body wrapping, the skin should be prepared, that is, cleaned of dead cells and opened pores. This is done by peeling or scrubbing. To warm up problem areas, you need to massage them a little.
- Applying the mixture. Apply and rub the wrapping mixture onto problem areas. You can buy it at the store or prepare it yourself. Wrap the treated areas with cling film, dress in warm clothes and lie down under a blanket. Leave the applied composition on for at least 40 minutes.
- Relaxation. Take off the oilcloth, take a shower or lie in the bath. At the end of the session, rub the treated surfaces with olive oil or moisturizer.
You can evaluate the result of wrapping after just a few sessions: the waist becomes thinner, and the hips are noticeably smaller. In addition, the skin becomes firmer and smoother, and cellulite disappears. The course of wraps consists of 6-15 sessions, spread over 3 to 6 weeks. The duration and number of sessions depends on the presence of fat deposits.
Contraindications to procedures
Despite the undoubted benefits of wraps, not everyone is allowed to do it. The main contraindications to the procedure are:
- pathologies of the genitourinary system;
- any infectious, viral, colds;
- chronic diseases in the acute stage;
- malignant tumors of any location, as well as the rehabilitation period after treatment of cancer;
- individual intolerance to the components of the product;
- dermatological problems;
- increased body temperature;
- disorders of the thyroid gland (for kelp wraps).
Attention: sessions are prohibited for any, even minor, damage to the skin in the treatment area.
Pregnant and nursing mothers, as well as girls, will have to postpone figure restoration using thermal treatment during menstrual bleeding.
Additional contraindications exist for hot-type procedures. Among them:
- phlebeurysm;
- heart or vascular disease;
- hypertension.
Ladies with thin, sensitive skin should be careful when choosing ingredients for masks. Aggressive ingredients (for example, mustard or red pepper) can seriously damage delicate skin.
Secrets and subtleties of the procedure
How often can you do body wraps? In order to enjoy the results soon, you need to carry out the procedure 3 times a week for a month. Moreover, ideally, it is better to alternate cold wraps with hot ones. By the way, it is advisable to start immediately after menstruation, without forgetting about physical activity, proper nutrition and optimal drinking regimen. At this time you can drink both mineral water and green tea.
The time of the procedure does not matter. Meanwhile, overnight wraps with film have become incredibly popular. Just 5 such procedures with a break of 1 day allow you to remove several centimeters from problem areas. And these are not just words, but the experience of practicing representatives of the fair sex.
By wrapping with film you can stay slim for up to 6 months. After this, in the absence of proper nutrition and an active lifestyle, all procedures will have to be repeated.
Reviews
Women who have tried cellulite wraps with cling film at home speak positively about these procedures. Girls especially like manipulations with chocolate, clay, and kelp. Ladies note a significant improvement in their skin after the first session. The skin becomes soft, velvety, and visually tightened. If you don’t stop, take a full course of body wraps, combine them with proper nutrition and exercise, you can remove up to 7 centimeters from your waist or hips in a month.
Not everyone can withstand procedures with burning components. Some are forced to interrupt them due to unbearable pain, redness, and irritation on the skin. Those who are able to endure manipulations without harm to health consider them to be the most effective, noting that the body gets used to the heat over time and the sessions are easier to tolerate.
Properly carried out wraps with cling film help you gain smooth, soft skin without going to the salon, and quickly get rid of a couple of extra pounds. In order for the results to last for a long time, you must not only practice cosmetic procedures, but also give up fatty foods and do physical exercise. This lifestyle will help preserve not only beauty, but also health for a long time.
General rules
Proper film wrapping is based on several rules:
- 60 minutes before it and 30 minutes after it you cannot eat;
- the day before it is not recommended to do hair removal or depilation;
- poor health is a contraindication to it;
- to enhance the effect, it is advisable to carry out the procedure on skin that has been steamed and treated with a scrub and a massage sponge;
- Do not wrap the film too tightly, especially when wrapping it around your stomach;
- After the procedure, it is useful to take a salt bath.
