Homemade Body Wrap: how to get rid of excess centimeters in a few hours
Educational Program Health / / December 19, 2019
If a diet and gym time gone, and in a dress or jeans to climb it is necessary to try to wrap in foil and take cover with a blanket. Wrapping will deliver you from the swelling and reduce a couple of centimeters.
What can and can not to wrap
Typically, the mixture is applied to the legs, abdomen and upper arms - areas that are most likely to suffer from edema and fat.
Neck, shoulders, chest highly undesirable cover film: soft skin of these areas should be treated with care.
How do the wrapping
Display the excess water
When you wrap cover problem areas with a special compound and wrapped with polyethylene film. It turns out the greenhouse effect: the skin temperature rises, opens pores and begins actively sweating. Thus the body gets rid of excess fluid, and you lose a few hundred grams per procedure. The effect will not be long-lasting. Support it can, making wraps courses: every other day for two weeks or every 3-4 days during the month.
Accelerate metabolism
Cold wraps cause the body to expend more calories to heat.
tighten the skin
Moisturizing ingredients mix actively nourish the problem areas of the body. A moisture rich skin becomes smooth and elastic, gets an even color. To consolidate the effect, after wrapping lightly massage your hands or a washcloth in the shower and apply moisturizer.
Wrap withdraw edema, moisturize the skin and help to lose weight. But without diet and exercise much lose weight will not work.
9 recipes household wraps
Hot wraps
- Mustard and honey. 2 tablespoons of mustard spoon (can be used with dilution to the consistency of sour cream mustard powder) connect with 2-3 tablespoons of honey. Stir weight and apply a thin layer on the skin. Be careful: this wrap significantly warms the body, it is not necessary to hold longer than 30 minutes.
- Honey and salt. 3 tablespoons of honey mix with 2 teaspoons of fine salt and put on the body 50-70 minutes. If during the procedure to take the blanket more tightly, sweat will be maximized.
- Pepper-cinnamon. Connect 3 tablespoons ground black pepper, 3 tablespoons ground cinnamon 6 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Mix thoroughly and apply a thick layer on the problem areas. Keep the body up to 60 minutes.
cold wraps
- Acetic. Dilute table or apple vinegar with water in a ratio of 1: 3. Moisten solution gauze bandages or wafer towels. They wrap the body and fix the top film for 1.5-2 hours. This wrap actively removes fluid from the body, so do not forget to put a bottle of water close.
- Clay. Stir clay powder with water to a paste and apply to the body for 30-60 minutes. There are many types of clay, you can choose any. To improve skin moisture and elasticity suitable blue, black or pink.
- Mint. At 6 tablespoons green clay, add 2-5 drops of peppermint oil. Apply the mixture to buttocks and hips (mint cools, and therefore the sensitive area of the abdomen, it is desirable not to affect) and leave on for 30-60 minutes.
Anti-cellulite body wraps
- Honey and milk. 5 tablespoons of milk powder mix 2-3 tablespoons liquid honey. If the mixture is thick sour cream, add the warm water. Apply the product on the problem areas, cover them with foil and leave for 60-90 minutes. It's okay if you're a little increase during the procedure: this rich moisturizing composition does not harm the skin.
- Chocolate. 5-6 tablespoons cocoa powder (preferably take no additives) dissolve in warm water or milk until the consistency of sour cream. Keep makeup on the body 50-70 minutes and enjoy the rich chocolate flavor.
- Seaweed. It is often advised to wrap in beauty salons, but it can be done at home. Buy at the pharmacy, dry kelp or Fucus. Pour a couple of tablespoons of seaweed with hot water and leave to swell for half an hour. Then gently put a lot on the problem areas, cover with foil and rest for 30-60 minutes.
How to wrap at home
Before wrapping the skin to clean and heat to remove dead skin cells and reveal the pores. Take a hot shower and scrub scrub problem areas of the body. Scrub can be done independently of the ground coffee, salt or sugar. Add the dry mixture bit ordinary shower gel and massage the abdomen, legs and arms in a circular motion.
Now, apply the mixture to the skin wraps and wrap film body (suitable conventional food).
Before and after the procedure, it is desirable not to have 1.5 hours. At least, the heavy food. But it is necessary to drink a lot, so as not to become dehydrated.
And now you can relax: Wrapped towel to nothing dirty, and get under a warm blanket on 30-90 minutes depending on the composition of the mixture.
When time runs out, carefully unwind the tape and take a warm shower. To enhance the effect, massage your stiff brush, or use anti-cellulite cream.
Remember, during the wrapping can not exercise. This can cause heat stroke! Weakness, dizziness, or a strong rapid pulse - a reason to stop the procedure immediately.
When it is not necessary to do the wrapping
- If the skin has sores or irritations. Wait until they heal.
- In the presence of allergies to components of the mixture. Before the procedure, check the composition at the crook of the elbow or behind the knee. If within a few hours does not turn red and inflamed, boldly make the wrap. Otherwise, try a different recipe.
- During pregnancy and lactation, as well as varicose veins, hypertension, heart disease and kidney failure.
- In inflammatory diseases, colds, and in the early days of the menstrual cycle while the body temperature has increased, additional heating overload body.