How to Make Body Wrap Slimming Gel

Having your body wrapped in a slimming gel is a new-age way to help reduce weight and get rid of toxins. If it actually does that is uncertain, but it can certainly help exfoliate and moisturize your skin, if nothing else. Since the slimming aspect of this procedure is mainly due to the compression of the wrapping as opposed to the ingredients in the gel, you have a choice of what you want the gel to do (exfoliate, moisturize, etc.). Having your body professionally wrapped at a spa can cost as much as $300. You can do it in your own home for a much cheaper price.

Things You'll Need

• 1 cup bentonite or green clay
• 1/4 cup sea salt
• 2 tbsp. olive oil
• 2 cups water
• Medium-sized pot
• 1 very ripe avocado
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/4 cup aloe vera gel
• Towels
• Plastic wrap or gauze

Instructions

Making Slimming Gel for Oily Skin

1. Boil the 2 cups of water in a medium-sized pot.

2. Add the 1/4 cup of sea salt to the pot of water and stir until it is dissolved.

3. Add the 2 tbsp. of olive oil to the mixture, stirring thoroughly.

4. Add the 1 cup of green clay to the water, stirring thoroughly. This will be thick, but constant stirring will smooth it out and create a sort of paste. Adjust the amount of water to make the paste into a sticky, but spreadable mixture. Set it aside, allowing it to cool slightly.

5. Take a warm shower immediately before wrapping to open your body's pores.

6. Spread the towels on the floor where you plan to be lying and wrapping yourself.

7. Spread the paste over your entire body (except your face) once it has cooled enough to touch. Feel free to spread it with your hands.

8. Wrap the thin plastic wrap around your individual limbs of your body where you have applied the gel. If you don't have plastic wrap, use gauze. Make sure it is tight enough to not slip off your body, but loose enough not to strangle or cut off your circulation. Leave the wrap on for an hour, simply lying there, and then remove it, taking a cooler shower to close the pores again and clean yourself off.

Making Slimming Gel for Dry Skin

1. Scrape the pulp out of your very ripe avocado. Scoop it into a medium-sized pot.

2. Add 1 cup of heavy cream into the pot, stirring it together with the avocado pulp.

3. Add 1/4 cup of aloe vera gel to the mixture and stir thoroughly until it is a spreadable paste. Add more cream if the consistency of the paste is not to your liking yet. This will thin it depending on how much cream is added.

4. Follow steps 5 through 8 in Section 1 to finish the procedure for this slimming gel as well.

References

• Thriftyfun.com

Resources

• Body Wrap Clay Information