Caffeine is often the main active ingredient found in anti cellulite creams. It is a natural diuretic and is thought to improve the look of cellulite by increasing blood flow, removing built up fluid in skin cells and decreasing fat. Given caffeine’s anti cellulite proprieties, the question naturally rises whether it is possible to use coffee grounds as an inexpensive cellulite treatment. However, the answer is not entirely simple. Coffee can be both an enemy and an ally in the battle of cellulite reduction.
How Coffee Can Increase Cellulite
While coffee can certainly help the appearance of cellulite, consuming it as a drink can actually worsen your cellulite. One to three cups a day will have little effect but as you go beyond three cups a day the risk of lymphatic blockages increase. This is due to the caffeine – in its role as a diuretic – dehydrating the skin cells and impeding circulation to the skin. When your skin cells are dehydrated, fluid containing toxins can build up between the cells because there is no water to flush them away. The end result is lumpy hard deposits under the skin.
Treating Cellulite With Coffee
When applied externally to the skin, coffee is thought to help reduce the number of fat cells under the skin and increase the blood flow to the skin to help flush away the toxins. The coffee grounds also act as a gentle exfoliant for the skin due to their coarse nature.
Coffee Grounds and Cellulite Wrap: A Simple Home Remedy
If you can’t afford cellulite cream or another similar treatment, a cheap home remedy that you can try is a coffee ground body wrap. Many women swear by this remedy, including celebrities and catwalk models. It is actually a very old technique, originating in the 1950s with Hollywood starlets. In general, you should do this procedure about two to three times per week depending on how severe your cellulite is.
Here is how you can do your own cellulite body wrap:
- Warm the coffee grounds in a microwave (but not to a point where they are hot enough that they will burn your skin).
- Go into the bathroom or a similar tiled room in the house. Mix about a tablespoon of olive oil with the coffee grounds and apply the mixture to the problems areas.
- Take some plastic wrap and wrap it around the area that has the mixture applied. Leave for ten to fifteen minutes.
- Remove the plastic wrap. Shower to remove the excess coffee.
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I just tried this five minutes ago and there is noticable exfoliation on my inner thigh wich had lines on it before the treatement. It is really messy though, there were coffee grounds all over my shower. To do this just mix a cup of coffee grounds and olive oil on newspaper or in the shower spread this concoction all over thighs, hips, and bottom half of the midsection. Cover it all in plastic wrap and wait twenty minutes. Then remove the wraps, rinse off well, clean it all up, and look how it ex foliated already. I remember I did this last summer four times a week for two weeks and I became too skinny to exercise and the only pants that fit me were juniors’ size two. I gained weight in the winter from side effects from a high dosage of anxiety sleeping medication and the hospital fed the patients coffee at breakfast and dinner. On this high dosage and two cups of coffee a day with a lot of eating high calorie foods the only cellulite I have is unsightly and one dimple on one leg because of what I call a fat pack lodged under my hip wich is why I’m even trieng this olive oil coffee wrap again. I do swear by it. Weight can only be gained after this success after massive consumption of food, coffee, no exercise for a month. Go for it.