Cellulite

Cellulite - treatments and cellulite reduction

Aesthetic Technologies, Inc. - Cellulite cream products and treatments, and skin care body lotions.

Algamil Seaweed Mud - Offers a treatment for a natural cellulite reduction.

Ameriwrap - Body wrap supplies for professional or personal use.

Azzurra Health & Beauty - Offers compression pantyhose, tights, stockings and socks to prevent cellulite and feet swelling.

Body Wrap Slim - Offers a kit that reduces inches, improves cellulite, stretch marks, and firms skin.

Bodywraps 4 U - Choose from 3 home wrap kits that will help lose cellulite and inches all over the body.

Cellasene - Offers information and purchase of a cellulite reducing product.

Cellulite Eraser - Offers a treatment and removal cream.

Cellulite.com - Include information, diets, exercise, supplements, tips and products for self-diagnosis and treatment of cellulite conditions.

Contour Body Wraps - Sales of body wrap products for personal or spa use.

Cos-Medical - Body wrap/weight-loss system.

European Health and Body Spa - European Slimming Techniques, Cellulite, Inch Loss, Thermal Fat Burner treatments and Muscle Toning.

Instant Cellulite Eraser - Offers a product which helps with weight loss and dieting.

Lose-Inches-Now.com - Features an applicator which targets any specific area of your body abs/back, chin, legs/arms and face, which will help inches of fat, cellulite and wrinkles disappear.

Mrotex P.P.H. - Presented is a bodysuit, body stocking designed for cellulite therapy.

Simply Slender Body Wraps - Sales of body wraps made of herbs, minerals, and sea clays.

SlenderWrap - Sales of body wrap kits for use at home, body wrap supplies for salons, and cellulite reduction for hips, thighs and double chins.

Cellulite information

Cellulite describes dimpling of skin, caused by the protrusion of subcutaneous fat into the dermis creating an undulating dermal-subcutaneous fat junction adipose tissue. The term cellulite originated in France more than 150 years ago and began appearing in English language publications in the late 1960s, the earliest reference in Vogue magazine, "Like a swift migrating fish the word cellulite has suddenly crossed the Atlantic.

Descriptive names for cellulite include orange peel syndrome, cottage cheese skin, the mattress phenomenon, and hail damage. Synonyms include: adiposis edematosa, dermopanniculosis deformans, status protrusus cutis and gynoid lipodystrophy. It is unrelated to cellulitis, which is infection of the skin and its underlying connective tissue.

Between 85% and 98% of post-pubescent females display some degree of cellulite. It is prevalent in women of all races but is more common in Caucasian females than in Asian females. There appears to be a hormonal component to its presentation. It is rarely seen in males. It is seen more commonly in males with androgen-deficient states such as Klinefelter's syndrome, hypogonadism, post-castration states and in those patients receiving estrogen therapy for prostate cancer. The cellulite becomes more severe as the androgen deficiency worsens in these males. Cellulite is not related to being overweight; average and underweight people also get cellulite.

While harmless, the dimpled appearance is a cause of concern for some people. The cosmetics industry claims to offer many remedies. There are no supplements that have been approved as effective for reducing cellulite. Liposuction, which extracts fat from under the skin, is not effective for cellulite reduction. Dieting does not get rid of the dimpled appearance, but balanced eating, drinking and exercising may help.

Cellulite has been found to be indistinguishable from ordinary fat in every medical and scientific test. It is not proven whether any cosmetic lotion, massager or pills can reduce/increase cellulite versus ordinary fat. The only known way to reduce the appearance of cellulite is to reduce overall body fat by altering diet or exercise, although it may remain visible even on very slim women.

The cause of cellulite is unknown. But, some theories point to stress, and diet as potential causes, or at least aggravators.

Source: This informational article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Cellulite.

Some cellulite listings from the ODP