Smooth Out Cellulite with Venus Freeze®

Spring is in full swing in the Midwest, and we can say goodbye to the bulky clothes of winter. As you get your summer wardrobe out and ready, you’re not all that keen to get into more revealing clothing thanks to cellulite.

This issue is mostly a female one — between 80% and 90% of women get cellulite, thanks in large part to hormones. So, take heart, you’re certainly not alone.

Another reason not to be dismayed about cellulite is that there’s a great weapon in our arsenal — Venus Freeze®. At Dutch Hollow Medical Day Spa, our team of aesthetic specialists follows the science, and we offer only products and technologies that work, which includes our Venus Freeze skin tightening and fat reduction system.

Behind that cellulite

To appreciate how the technology behind Venus Freeze works, it’s always helpful to understand what we’re up against.

Beneath your skin, you have connective tissues that attach to your skin, and cellulite forms when fat pushes through these connective fibers.

The reason why cellulite is almost an exclusively female issue is due to several key gender differences, such as:

• Reproductive hormones — estrogen plays a leading role in the formation of cellulite
• Different connective tissue patterns — men have criss-cross fibers while the connective fibers in women run parallel, which allows more fat to push through
• Women have less collagen in their skin than men
• Women tend to carry more fat where cellulite forms, such as around the buttocks and thighs

The bottom line is that women are more prone to cellulite for a number of different reasons, and none of them really have to do with size — even skinny women get cellulite.

How Venus Freeze works to smooth out cellulite

One of the reasons why we chose our Venus Freeze system is that the technology combines radiofrequency energy with magnetic pulsed field energy for maximum effect. Each of these energies travels harmlessly through the surface of your skin to heat the cells and tissues below.

This therapeutic heat accomplishes several key things:

• The heat creates a mild healing response that ramps up collagen and elastin production
• The heat shrinks down existing fat cells
• The combined energy can stimulate blood flow

Collagen is the most plentiful protein in your skin and, alongside elastin, it’s responsible for your skin tone. By boosting collagen production in your treatment areas, your skin tightens up, which can smooth out those lumps and bumps that come with cellulite.

And the best part? Venus Freeze treatments are non-invasive, which might explain the popularity of this approach to skin tightening — nearly 440,000 noninvasive skin tightening treatments were performed in 2023 in the United States.

When it comes to results, you can expect those to be gradual as you progress through your Venus Freeze treatments (most clients benefit from a series of cellulite treatments). Because the treatments are noninvasive, there’s no downtime afterward, so you’ll breeze right through.

So, if you want to hit the summer season with smoother skin and less obvious cellulite, please contact us today to schedule your Venus Freeze appointment at our office in Godfrey, Illinois.