Re: Answers (edit)

The problem with loose skin arises following too a quick weight loss, which can cause streches due to low skin elasticity.

As far as I know, and that's my experience, it's very important to keep your skin clean and moistured.

Since I was a teenager, I've been rubbing my skin daily with a scourer when having a shower (yes, a very rough one such as those used for the washig up or to take insects off your car windscreen. I find loofahs are too mild for me. Occasionaly I mix some shower gel with salt or sugar.

Then, after a shower I used to put a moisturizer, but over the last few years I've only used pure sweet almond oil. I think that's the best. It's not too greasy and it spreads quite well.

I started to use it during pregnancy, when I put on 2.3 stones and lost about 3.2. As a result I do not have one single strechmark on my tummy and very few on my thighs but only because my weight has gone up and down many times in 30 years.

Stef.

Tweet