Two Natural Treatments for Cellulite

Despite being despised as unsightly, cellulite is natural and normal. It is thought that over 80% of women get some patches of cellulite somewhere on their body once they get past puberty. You don’t have to be very old or overweight to get cellulite. Even slightly underweight people have it. Surgery seems to help, but it is expensive, risky and the effects are often temporary. Are there any natural treatments for cellulite?

Great Expectations

First off, nothing is going to make cellulite vanish away completely. There are some natural treatments for cellulite that work like cover up makeup for zits. They won't get rid of cellulite – but at least it'll make the cellulite a lot harder to see. When you decide to use any natural treatment for cellulite, don’t expect miracles.

Coffee Grounds

Although many health experts advise those with cellulite to stay away from caffeine, there are those who think you should have at least one cup a day in order to help get the blood pumping and get fat cells broken up. However you look at drinking coffee, you'll have to do something with it after warming up coffee grounds.

Warm coffee grounds have been used as a skin scrub and a natural cellulite treatment for decades among women. Supermodels, actresses and beauty contestants are rumored to also use this natural cellulite treatment. You spread newspapers all around your bathroom, sit on the toilet of the edge of the tub and scrub the warm coffee grounds over your cellulite prone areas like your thighs and buttocks with your hands or a loofah mit. It's a very messy process.

It's thought that these natural treatments for cellulite is improved when you take a rolling pin and – well – roll your cellulite areas with it. You then rinse all of the mess off or your body and carefully clean up all of the coffee grounds by rolling up the newspapers. Do this twice a week.

Affirmations

Actually, there is no logical reason why you should be waging such a war against cellulite. It is actually a good indication that your body is acting normally. It's just that we have been programmed that beauty if a very narrow definition which includes no cellulite. One of the most natural treatments for cellulite is also free. You just repeat to yourself over and over that you don't give a darn about having cellulite. These are called affirmations. Eventually, the affirmations sink into your subconscious.

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