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Does dry brushing really help decrease the appearance of cellulite?
  • jennypower
    I use a tampico skin brush to exfoliate and have also heard that it helps reduce cellulite. Is that true?
  • sarahf
    Take this FWIW because I'm just going on memory--my recollection is that what is referred to as cellulite is really just the puckering you get in areas where you naturally have body fat.  It's a property of the fat itself, rather than a separate entity.  It's perfectly normal to have some cellulite, just as it's necessary and normal for us as females and as humans to have some body fat.  So my best guess is that if you are not significantly overweight, the best you can do about it is to either accept it as normal, or tone the muscles in those areas to add some smoothness.

    I found this article that may help.  http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cellulite/DS00891

    Wow, I learned something from the article--it looks like there are now laser treatments for it and retinol might help.  I had no idea.
  • jennypower
    I was not aware of the retinol treatment either - thanks for that article. 

    For me self tanner certainly helps mask the cellulite (I'm very pale) but I kept hearing that regular massage and skin brushing helped as well. I just am not prepared to drop hundreds of dollars a month on a standing massage appointment. 

    I will keep using the skin brush because it exfoliates well. 
  • sarahf
    Yeah, it tends to be more visible in women who are very pale.  One thing I'm guessing the retinol may do is to help the skin function optimally so it holds things in place more?  IDK.  I liked how they said in the article though that 8 out of 10 women have it--so it's pretty normal.  We see these airbrushed models' photos and it makes us crazy...
  • Ally E.Ally E.
    massage is really helpful, makes the blood rush to those areas. i was reading an article on cellulite once and it said that those areas of the body are the coldest, and it's true with me, my skin there is always cold to touch. to warming it up helps. dry brushing would do that exactly. also increase of oxygen in that area is supposed to help with drainage. and really good tool to fight cellulite is this https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=5pf&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&q=антицеллюлитная+банка&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1366&bih=638&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&authuser=0&ei=9FOPT6fZEYnysgaQgoGsBA not sure what it's called in english but a lot of russian beauty gurus swear by them, i have one as well, but too lazy to do anything about my cellulite :)
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