Best stretch mark creams

[toxitears181]

I have been suffering with awful leg stretch marks they are on my thighs and I have a few on my tummy. Anyone reccomend anything other than sudocrem, palmers, coco butter and bio oil as I've used all these xx

Look at motherly love, tums and boobs (something like that!) oil. With my first i tried all of the above. Literally every cream in boots i tried and nothing felt nice, either smell or didnt feel like it was soaking in. I went to a baby show and found motherly love stall, just brought some in a whim. The maker is an ex midwife and just all round lovely. Anyway i was about half way wt this point and i had lots on my boobs but ni where else. I was quite rigorous with the spraying, i put it in a littke spray bottle and every chance i got i sprayed it on my belly. Needless to say i didnt get any stretch marks on there, but i got them on my thighs where i didnt use it. And the ones on my boobs i used through the ebd if pregnancy and about 3 weeks after and they had really dulled the appearance of them. Its really worth a look. Im now expecting my second and have ordered some more x

OP blame your parents.

Unfortunately whether you get stretch marks and how bad they are, are due to your genes. Stretch marks form in the lower layers of your skin and no cream can get that deep.

I smothered myself in bio oil during pregnancy and didn’t get a single stretch mark but I have loads at the top of my legs from a preteen growth spurt. I tried for years with the bio oil/cocoa butter/anything else I could think of and they haven’t budged in the slightest. Lotions and potions may help prevent them but realistically as Blue says they can’t penetrate deep enough into your skin to make much of a difference to ones that are already there. If yours are red then they will fade in time but otherwise you just have to learn to live with them. No one has a perfect body.

Made my own concoction and haven't got one stretch mark, even though I've doubled in size during pregnancy. Do have old ones from a teenage growth spurt, so have a tendency to get them.

Mixed two parts of coconut oil (regular one from supermarket) with one part of shea butter and one part of grapeseed oil (not to be confused with rapeseed oil! also from supermarket). Had to heat the shea butter in a bain-marie to melt it. The mixture is greasy but works!

Also been using one part of rosehip oil (got a big bottle cheap from amazon) with one part grapeseed oil. It's still greasy, but not as bad. Used this am, and the other one in the evenings.

Yeah sadly the creams are pretty much bullshit. It's genetic wether you'll get them or not and these companies make money off the people who would have never got stretch marks anyway but put it down to X product that they used.
The cream might make your skin all soft though!

I got many stretch marks when I was pregnant and actually a big body brush has helped reduce the appearance of the ones I had previously.

The creams don't do a thing to either prevent stretch marks or remove existing ones - the best they can do is leave your skin feeling and smelling nice, so don't stress too much.

I have stretch marks all over my thighs and bum from puberty, but carried two babies to full term in my thirties without acquiring a single one. The die is cast already - as a pp said, it's genetic.