Most cellulite treatments do not work. Why?

Why cellulite treatments don't work

There are several reasons why most cellulite treatments do not work. Here are the 10 most important ones:

1. The treatment is too simplistic to work. Cellulite is a complicated aesthetic condition, therefore simplistic approaches involving one type of treatment and nothing else do not offer satisfactory results. In most cases you will need a combination of treatments, taken at regular intervals, combined with a tailor-made diet and exercise regime and a quality cellulite cream to achieve noteworthy results.
2. The treatment is irrelevant to your needs. For the same reason above, i.e. due to cellulite's complexity, one-size-fits-all treatments that are not tailor-made to your needs will not work either. For example, if your cellulite is characterised by loose connective tissue and you keep receiving lymphatic drainage massages to reduce water retention, obviously nothing will happen...
3. The treatment either does not work at all or it only offers temporary results. Many treatments do not work at all (normal massage is a good example). On the other hand, any treatment that seems to offer impressive immediate results works by draining water off your tissues, which of course duly returns in a few days.
4. You only received 2-3 sessions and gave up. Cellulite cannot disappear with 2-3 miracle treatments regardless of how much money you throw on those treatments. To change, your body needs regularity of stimulation (i.e. regularity of treatments) as well as time for that stimulus regularity to bear results. Practically speaking, your body needs a good 10-20 sessions of a quality cellulite treatment, received once to three times per week, over a period of one to three months, for significant changes to occur in your cellulite tissues. If you decide to have only 3-4 sessions, either because of time/money constraints or because you were misled to believe that cellulite can be reduced by a miracle treatment in 2-3 sessions, then you may end up with the conclusion that that specific treatment did not work.
5. The treatment is effective but it is too expensive to allow you to have 10-20 sessions. This is usually the case with hyped up, machine-based or injection-based treatments that you read about in glossy magazines and tabloid newspapers. As we mentioned above, most treatments are not very effective. However, even the effective ones needs 10-20 sessions to give you good results. At a cost of £300/session, these treatments will cost a cool £3,000 to £6,000 to offer you satisfactory results (of course the people that sell those treatments do not mention that, telling you that you only need 2-3 sessions). So if your budget is £1,000, you will only be able to receive 3-4 sessions and therefore not much will happen. In this case, the treatment works but it offers poor value for money for you (except. of course, if you a multi-millionairess, when money is not an object). In our opinion no treatment is worth paying £300/session even if you have loads of money to burn. For example, with £6,000 you can have 120x intensive cellulite-specific massages - in contrast to 20x hyped-up treatments. Which one do you think will offer better results for the same amount fo money?
6. The treatment does work but very, very slowly. Some treatments do work but they are so ineffective that you may need dozens of sessions for some decent results to appear. Given that nobody has the patience to have 50 sessions for just decent results, you can classify those treatments in the "doesn't work" category.
7. The treatment works slowly AND is very expensive. This is a double whammy: a treatment that is both ineffective, requiring long treatment times and numerous sessions to work, and is also very expensive. You may be surprised but many of the expensive, hyped up treatments that you hear so much about in the press, fall into this category, so beware...
8. The treatment works but you expect total cellulite removal which is quite often impossible. In most cases cellulite cannot be reduced completely, simply because permanent, irreversible damage to the cellulite connective tissue occurs after cellulite appearing. In that case cellulite can only be removed partially, even with the best of treatments. So if you expected total removal - and paid a fortune on that premise - you would be disappointed and conclude that the treatment doesn't work.
9. The treatment works but you expect miracles. All cellulite treatments require your active participation in the form of diet and exercise to offer you good results. Many cellulite treatment providers erroneously claim that your cellulite will disappear solely with their treatments (without any effort on your part), which is a complete fallacy. If you exercise regularly and eat healthily, you will make the most of your treatment. If not, you might think that the treatment you received did not work.
10. The treatment works but you don't care... This is when you sign up for a course of cellulite treatments and then actively engage into heavy drinking / eating / smoking and never exercising, only to wonder why did your cellulite become worse. Believe it or not, there are many women who fall into this category...

Obviously, for legal reasons we can not tell you which exact treatments work and which not, but hopefully this list has given you some food for thought and will help you separate hype from reality.