Whether you are having your first baby or 20th, stretchmarks are what every woman dreads. I remember with my first pregnancy, how much I didn’t want stretch marks. But I knew that I was just dreaming. I use to get stretch marks as a child on my legs, hips and bottom. The more I developed from a child to an adolescent, the more I developed stretch marks.
It wasn’t until I was in 10th grade that I stop developing stretch marks at all. Yet I still had the scars of stretchmarks from childhood development. I would talk to my mom about my stretch marks and she would say to me they were apart of life and she went on to say how cocoa butter gets rid of them. My mom suggested I get a jar of Palmer’s Cocoa butter. I walked down to the nearest Walgreen’s and purchased my first white jar of Palmer’s Cocoa butter.
My first experience and relationship with Palmer’s cocoa butter started.
Then when I was seven months pregnant I started to develop stretch marks around my belly. I knew It was a matter of time. I purchased my first jar of Palmer’s coco butter in years. Palmer’s Coco butter works wonders on stretch marks. Over time using Pamer’s can dimish the look of stretch marks. And soon very soon, stretch marks will no longer exists on your skin.
Palmer’s coco butter ingredients are Cocoa Extract, Mineral Oil, Microcrystalline Wax, Cocoa Butter, Dimethicone, Fragrance, Tocopheryl Acetate, and Carotene. Palmer’s cocoa butter has a great cocoa butter smell, not quite like chocolate but very flattering. The smell of Palmer’s cocoa butter is not overbearing or undesirable. Mineral oil is linked to petroleum or paraffin. Mineral oil is an emollient, a skin conditioner and a skin protector. Microcrystalline Wax is also petroleum wax or paraffin wax. It is a binding agent and an emulsion stabilizer. Cocoa Butter comes from Cocoa Beans. This butter heals the skin. It also has been said that Cocoa butter moisturizes the skin. For pregnant women, cocoa butter keeps the skin supple and decreases the appearance of stretch marks. Dimethicone is a skin protectant and conditioning agent. Carotene has been found in animal tissue as well as plant life for a source for Vitamin A.
The smell will remind you of the tropics; more of an island vibe.Dreaming about islands and tropical destinations is a fantasy anyone can endure esp while pregnant. The feel of Palmer’s cocoa butter is cream and slight grease. If you put too much cocoa butter on your skin it can become to grease. Your skin will become really oily even after you rubbed all you can into your skin.
The oil residue will rub off your skin onto your clothes or bed linen. So if you put to much Palmer’s coco butter into your skin you can rub it off you a hand towel. There was a time I put too much Palmer cocoa butter on after a bath and my skin began to look like a brand new shiny penny. I would recommended Palmer’s cocoa butter to anyone who has stretch marks whether pregnant pregnant or not.
Palmer’s cocoa butter is not an instant expeller of stretch marks with anything we do in life, Palmer’s use to get rid of stretchmarks will takes time. Palmer’s Cocoa Butter is packaged in a white jar with a white lid. The label on the Palmer’s jar is a clear plastic which has Palmer’s printed on the upper left corner of the label. Palmer’s can be seen printed inside a peachy orange oval. The product title, “Cocoa Butter”, and product description is printed in the center of the clear label. The size of the jar in both ounces and milliliters will follow afterward. On the back of the clear label are the ingredients and company distribution information and comment information. After a while of using the clear plastic label with come off. Drugstore.com has Palmer’s Cocoa butter for 4.99 USD.
