All You Need To Know About Tea Tree Oil And Stretch Marks
Tea tree oil has been used by Australian aborigines for hundreds of years. It is no wonder that people are now turning to it in an effort to help prevent and get rid of stretch marks.
It has many medicinal uses: antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antibiotic just to name a few. As well as treating common household ailments tea tree oil helps skin conditions including stretch marks.
It comes from a large variety of tea tree plants including the Australian tea tree, the lemon scented tea tree and the New Zealand tea tree.
Regular use of tea tree oil helps to prevent stretch marks. Australian tea tree oil in particular is highly recommended for stretch marks as is New Zealand tea tree oil or Manuka honey cream. It is one of the few aromatherapy oils that can be massaged directly onto the skin without dilution.
Stretch marks occur anywhere and everywhere on the body. They occur in young teenagers, in women and also in men. In fact, body building stretch marks in particular are extremely common.
They are the result of what we will can expansion and contraction – demands made on it to adapt, adjust and unfortunately in many instances, to stretch!
Most of us, at some point in our lives will have to deal with stretch marks on our bodies. As we age and our weight fluctuates throughout life, our skin and appearance changes and shifts and our skin becomes the focus of numerous uncomfortable stares and self-conscious glances in the mirror.
Here are just some of the most common responses and action plans people implement to deal with them:
Embarrassment, hiding and concealing, covering, denying, ignoring, wishing away, slapping on topical treatments, invasive, costly, repetitious treatments and interventions to get rid of them!
Here are some of the more generally accepted hormonal or endocrine stretch mark causes, or more accurately stated, contributing factors:
Negative emotion, depression or extreme unhappiness (emotions are neuro-peptides and affect the processes and organs in your body); developmental factors and stages, growth and puberty for adolescents and budding young adults, (both boys and girls); vitamins and nutrient deficiencies in the body; pregnancy; rapid weight gain/loss; sudden change in physical or environmental conditions; medications and steroid use; insufficient skin properties, building blocks and elements, like collagen and elastin (the main ingredients and connective tissue of your skin).
If you are looking for stretch mark tips, techniques and products for saving you money plus urgent help to get rid of them, making them less unsightly, it is possible to optimize your natural processes and defences with 100% natural products like tea tree oil and other alternative stretch mark therapies and approaches to help get rid of them and prevent stretch marks appearing in the first place. For example, Vitamin E is a great home remedy for stretch marks.
In this day and age there are many good, solid choices that you can make that can help you cope and make them less visible in appearance.
Tea tree oil and Vitamin E are just an example how changing some very small habits can have a MAJOR impact on your life, health and ultimately your skin!
While laser treatments and chemical peels are prominent it is possible to use natural alternatives to expensive stretch mark treatments to fight in order to minimize and lessen the appearance of stretch marks and their impact on your day to day life.
Stretch mark prevention and corrective action can now be taken using 100% natural products and not necessarily invasive and costly, extreme procedures.
So the next time you look in the mirror and start to feel embarrassed about your stretch marks remember that Mother Nature has, in fact, handed you many home remedies for stretch marks and natural stretch mark treatments to help prevent and get rid of them.
November 11th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Stretch marks….?
I know about the cocoa butter, I use it daily, but is there anything else YOU have found that works. I think I heard something about tee tree oil? Anything?
Wow. Thank you all.
The reason I really want to try to get them to go away is when I was 13 I lost a bunch of weight, then ofcourse gained it all back and quickly, so I got stretch marks, So I lost the weight again,lol.
So I am 16 now, finally healthy and thin, but I have ugly stretch marks =/
November 12th, 2008 at 3:52 am
sorry no help:(
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November 12th, 2008 at 3:54 am
Bio Oil
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November 12th, 2008 at 3:56 am
KY jelly?
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November 12th, 2008 at 3:58 am
sorry, nothing works. exercise to tighten the skin and muscles can help make it look slighter.
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November 12th, 2008 at 4:00 am
nothing works theyre just there…theres laser surgery but even then they are still there just slightly faded
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November 12th, 2008 at 4:02 am
whats wrong with stretch marks i have some and i just dont do anything to them its… not that bad… if you really love yourself you wouldnt let small things like stretch marks make you want to change [getting stuff to make it go away] i dont know of any stuff that takes them away but jsut love yourself the way that you are… taht si the best thing to do… honest.
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November 12th, 2008 at 4:04 am
If it makes you feel better, I dated this chick who was smoking hot. From like a few feet away she looked flawless but when we were "really close" I could see her stretch marks. Ever since then, I could care less about stretch marks because everybody has them. Some are just more visible than other.
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November 12th, 2008 at 4:06 am
halle berry uses avocados to get rid of her cellulite, try that…
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November 12th, 2008 at 4:08 am
I haven't tried the tea tree oil, but I went to a place where they did a body wrap and they put on some mud like stuff before they wrapped your body. This mud like stuff took away about half of them on my upper body. The body wrap was suppose to guarantee you to lose 6 inches that day. They require you to come on a regular basis, but I only went once and the mud stuff worked. The 6 inches came back. It was an accumulation of 6 inches over all your body total.
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November 12th, 2008 at 4:10 am
I rubbed pickle juice on after I had both of my kids. Twice a day, for at least fifteen minutes, for 5 weeks after your child is born. Works like a charm. Its an old family remedy, and I barely have any signs that I had one kid. It works. Its weird, but it works. I didn't even believe it! try it
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November 12th, 2008 at 4:12 am
Vitamin E oil works on scars and I think it may help with stretch marks as well.
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November 12th, 2008 at 4:14 am
Stretch marks aren't celluloid….dah
If they have already scarred, try bio-oil. i use it everyday and it seems to lessen most scars, and completely removes others.
if they haven't scarred yet the best thing to do is to keep the skin moisturised (with cocoa butter or some other intense moisturiser) and try massaging them everyday, this increases blood flow and reduces the scarring, although it wont get rid of them altogether.
the worst thing to do is put them in the sun because that speeds up the scaring process….and they say the best way to get rid of them is a fake tan! (?)
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November 12th, 2008 at 4:16 am
Palmers brand has a cream specifically for stretch marks that's helped me immensely. It's cocoa butter with collagen and vitamin E to enhance the healing. When a stretch mark fades to white, it dignifies healing.
Try Vitamin E oil as well. I had them on my chest for a while when my cup size decided to explode on me, and these two things have without a doubt helped decrease the healing time.
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November 12th, 2008 at 4:18 am
how did you lose the weight all those times??
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November 12th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Trust me Cocoa Butter doesn't work, i've been using it for 5yrs now, don't see a change at all.
…but…
There are Body makeups you can use to cover stretch marks, scars, birth marks, etc.
There's Dermablend (www.dermablend.com) and there's smart cover (www.smartcover.com).
Personally i've tryed Dermablend and didn't like it. Even though it was my right shade, it didn't look good one me. You could literally notice that I had on some sort of makeup on my legs (heck even the stretchmarks and scars were still visible)… so i got pissed and went back to JC penny to get my money back lol.
I've never tryed Smartcover, but i think it will work. From the way it looks on the commercial, i'd say your going to get your money's worth. I'm going to purchase it next month, you should to
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November 12th, 2008 at 4:22 am
i heard something about turmeric powder
make it into a paste and mask the stretch marks
wash off after a while
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