Hey in the beauty world a little skepticism never hurts, you never know what snakeoil someone is trying to sell you. Should you be wary of Endermologie?

If you’re not familiar with it, endermologie is a French treatment intended to treat and reduce cellulite without using invasive surgical techniques. It’s performed by a professional using a device roughly the size of your average household iron and uses a sucking motion while rolling over problem areas that show cellulite. Over time, this will reduce the appearance of cellulite leaving you with smooth skin instead of unsightly bumps. We’ve found it to be effective when administered by professionals who have training and experience administering endermologie. Be warned that like anything else, it’s not a magic cure. Cellulite is, in our experience, your body’s way of telling you to get in shape! Developing proper eating habits and getting sufficient exercise is a must for reducing cellulite, but we’ve found that combined with endermologie, you get better results and faster.

We cannot emphasise enough how important it is to get yourself in shape, as you are sure to know, being overweight and out of shape comes with many health and appearance problems that are much worse than cellulite. However we’ve been surprised to find out that endermologie is a surprising and unusual aid for losing weight and staying in shape. We think it might have something to do with something like what one endermologie patient said, “I work hard to stay in shape, but the results are slow in coming. Like anyone else going through this knows, after a couple of weeks of sweating and being hungry seemingly all the time, it’s rough to see the scale hardly budge and your pants still don’t fit! Despite plenty of ‘yo-yo’ diets where I worked hard just to get fatter, I am proud to say I’ve been at my target weight for over a year now… and oddly enough, endermologie did it. I live in a hot area, meaning lots of visits to the pool, and shorts. I had it with feeling insecure about my cellulite! I started exercising again, and decided to try endermologie as it couldn’t hurt. All that yo-yoing was taking an obvious toll on my thighs, but endermologie was like magic. I kept exercising and watching the calories, but it was really nice to start wearing shorts and feel confident again even before I was as thin as I liked! I could never let that feeling go, and I haven’t!” Obviously, a bit of sucking and rolling won’t burn any calories, but a better return on investment (so to speak) for your efforts in getting in shape certainly helps make it easier to stay on track.

An important thing to point out is that of all the miracle creams and magic wands promising to get rid of cellulite, endermologie is the only FDA approved treatment. Cellulite seems to happen as a result of various things in your body getting clogged up and clumping together due to a lack of stimulation and fluctuations in weight and skin elasticity changes that happen with age. Endermologie works by “re-energizing” so to speak the areas in your thigh skin that have gotten clumpy and stagnant, and getting your skin to renew itself so that the elasticity improves. Since cellulite forms as a result of being out of shape and having too much body fat, it’s impossible to get rid of without exercise and healthy eating, but this stimulation combined with a well-executed weight loss plan can reduce or eliminate its appearance very quickly.

If numbers help, more than 95 countries have professionals who offer endermologie treatment, and last we counted more than 85 clinical studies have been done on endermologie just to make sure it really works. The FDA has cleared it several times, as well. It’s been around for over 20 years, and been endorced by a litany of fitness pros, doctors, and, not so surprisingly, models who have found it effective.

The only downside to endermologie is that it won’t come cheap; you need to find someone skilled in endermologie and that is never inexpensive. Unlike an unproven cream or some other fly-by-night treatment, though, endermologie is approved and proven to actually work. It is, after all, a rule of life that for anything, it’s a waste to spend $20 on something completely useless–and something $200 that you get good use out of is not a waste at all. And of course, endermologie is not a wonder treatment that erases the consequences of your actions–to see results you will have to stick to staying in shape, but therein lies the silver lining to the cost: if smooth thighs aren’t motvation enough, not having to pay for and go through treatment ever again should do it!