Essential oil's for stretchmarks??

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

Iam going to make a lotion for a friend who is pregnant and wants to

put it on her belly to help prevent stretchmarks. I have a few

essential oil's that I have heard that will help with this but i was

hoping the group could help me out more. Does anyone know what

essential oil's will work on preventing or softening already there

stretchmarks? Remember she is pregnant, also. Does any one have

knowledge in this area? I would greatly appreciate any thing you may

have to offer. Thanks so much, Ellen

[Guest guest]

Ellen, a lot of EO are dangerous for pregnant ladies. Some may cause uterine

contractions or other complications with the pregnancy. Years ago when I was

with child, we used baby oil to prevent stretch marks, helping soften the

skin and keeping it from becoming so tight and causing the stretch marks.

It's a safe bet a plain whipped body butter including Shea will help a lot

and be a lot safer until the baby is born. Afterwards, a body butter or

lotion with helichrysium ( I think is supposed to help with scarring). I

feel it's just not safe to use EO's on a expecting mother. I've read too

many cautions. Just about every site I order mine from will tell in the

descriptions of the EO if it is safe or not, but a Google search will help

too. I would type in something like..essential oils and their properties.

There are some nice products on the market to help with scars she might want

to check out. I saw one just the other day at the local Wally world that was

pretty reasonable in price. But read the label close to see if it's safe for

use during pregnancy.

Pam

[Guest guest]

Hi Ellen, I know you want EO's, but unrefined Shea butter is super for

stretch marks. Hugs,

Essential oil's for stretchmarks??

[Guest guest]

hi ellen. i'd leave your lotion unscented. i have 2 lotion bars that i

sell, a scented shea butter bar and an unscented cocoabutter bar. at the

last craft fair i did, i sold out of the unscented, primarily to

pregnant woman, while i had several bars of the scented one left. i also

used the unscented one throughout my last pregnancy (i have a 7 week

old). there are many eos that are contraindicated for pregnancy and when

you're pregnant there are enough things to worry about/obsess on, so

using an unscented bar (especially one that smells like yummy

cocoabutter) means you feel good about using it.

just my 2 cents...

laurel

naked soapworks

>Message: 4

> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 05:29:12 -0000

> From: " Ellen Scusa " <eascusa@...>

>Subject: Essential oil's for stretchmarks??

>

>Hi everyone,

>Iam going to make a lotion for a friend who is pregnant and wants to

>put it on her belly to help prevent stretchmarks. I have a few

>essential oil's that I have heard that will help with this but i was

>hoping the group could help me out more. Does anyone know what

>essential oil's will work on preventing or softening already there

>stretchmarks? Remember she is pregnant, also. Does any one have

>knowledge in this area? I would greatly appreciate any thing you may

>have to offer. Thanks so much, Ellen

>

[Guest guest]

> Ellen, a lot of EO are dangerous for pregnant ladies. Some may cause

uterine

> contractions or other complications with the pregnancy.

<SNIP>

There is an awful lot of misinformation around concerning essential

oils. Very few would cause any problems used as a fragrance in a skin

cream and most of those are not available commercially. Looking for

info via Google is no good unless you have some background knowledge

first, because there is an awful lot of 'information' out there that

is just plain wrong and sometimes actively dangerous, and unless you

have some knowledge you won't be able to tell the difference.

Swallowing EOs or handling them in large quantities such as we do when

making soap is a different matter and I would take great care handling

them if I was pregnant. (Good ventilation, use gloves, wash

immediately if you spill any on your skin. For that matter that's just

good practice anyway). FOs too are potentially dangerous, in some ways

more so because you can't get the information about what is actually

in them.

Pat in Somerset, England