Stretch Marks

[b-angel]

My niece who is only 15 has developed what look like stretch marks on her outer thighs. She is quite distressed about this and I wondered if you could suggest any oils/cream that I could make up for her.Although she has put a little weight on she is not overweight for her height. She does wear quite tight jeans. Do you think this could be the cause. I would really appreciate any advice.

 

[Zero]

Many teenage girls develop stretchmarks through adolescence. I would use sunflower oil base blended with rosehip seed oil as an enricher (you could do, say, 20ml sunflower to 10ml rosehip seed). Mandarin and neroli are excellent essential oils for stretchmarks. You could work at 5% blend if she is only going to massage the blend into the areas affected. Otherwise, if she wants to use the oil all over her thighs, tummy and bottom (all common areas) then I would blend at 2.5%.

Hope this helps!

Kate

 

[Alanny]

This happened to my thighs and bumwhen I was her age and I put on a bit of weight quickly. Strangely I never got them on my belly when I was pregnant and put a lot of weight on - perhaps you are just prone to them on certain areas. I hope the oils work for her!

 

[Pompal 09.]

Well it has to do with your skins elasticity, so creams and lotions won't keepit fromhappening if you are prone to get them. It will however, keep it from getting too bad and will help repair the skin faster so they will turn white instead of staying dark... also keeping the skin exfoliated will help with the penetration of whatever moisturizer you choose. I can't imagine tight jeans causing stretch marks... but I guessI could be wrong about that.