How to care for your
skin during pregnancy.

What’s the go-to treatment for every maternity kit?

Skin stretches during pregnancy, which can rupture elastin fibers within the dermis, resulting in stretch marks. Since every body is different, for some women the effects are more pronounced than others. Best to take care right from the start with Clarins Tonic Body Treatment Oil, a visibly firming and toning oil—with 100% plant extracts, including organic geranium, mint, and rosemary—that targets stretch marks caused by pregnancy and sudden weight gain or loss. Day after day, skin’s elasticity visibly improves, making it better able to adapt as your body changes. Apply to damp skin on stomach, breasts, thighs, hips, and backs of arms; then rinse with cool water for enhanced toning benefits. The aromatic essences of essential oils will bring feelings of calm to the most hectic day.

How to visibly boost skin’s elasticity?

Every month as your baby takes up more and more room your skin will begin to stretch—often resulting in stretch marks that appear across the surface of the stomach, breasts, hips, thighs, and backs of arms.

Clarins Pregnancy Expert Tip:

To help prevent stretch marks from developing before the first signs of damage appear, drink plenty of water and apply a moisturizer to your face and body at least twice daily.

To help improve your skin’s elasticity, and prepare it for even more stretching, after showering, massage your body with a few drops of Tonic Body Treatment Oil—formulated with aromatic 100% plant extracts—a relaxing ritual that will elevate your senses to a total feeling of happiness and well-being.

How to enhance skin’s suppleness and radiance?

Exfoliating the skin once or twice a week is an essential step for maintaining smooth, radiant, supple skin. Prenatal exfoliation is especially recommended to eliminate impurities, and make room for fresh new cells to surface.

Clarins Research has created exfoliating formulas that contain naturally derived ingredients that are extra-gentle on a pregnant woman’s sensitive skin.

Clean, toned and free of pore-clogging dirt, dead cells, and debris, our moisturizers and anti-stretch mark products are more easily absorbed by the skin—boosting the efficacy of the plant extracts for optimal suppleness and radiance.

Why use Clarins Exfoliating Body Scrub For Smooth Skin during pregnancy?

Clarins cares about the comfort and beauty of new moms and moms-to-be.
Exfoliating Body Scrub for Smooth Skin—with naturally exfoliating bamboo powder—softens and nourishes, while gently eliminating dry skin cells, flakes, and impurities.

Smooth over damp body skin; then rinse well and finish with a splash of cool water to enhance microcirculation and visibly tone the skin—moments of peace, comfort, and pure relaxation that help eliminate tension and fatigue to promote a beautiful day or a good night’s sleep.

How to take the heat off of heavy-feeling legs and feet?

Small, everyday actions can bring some much needed relief. Stretch your legs as often as possible, and prop them up on a cushion to help improve blood circulation. Swap stilettos for flats. Walk instead of ride. Opt for showers over baths. To help release excess fluids and toxins, follow your shower with a few drops of Contour Body Treatment Oil—formulated with 100% plant extracts, including essential oils of broom and tonka bean—massaged onto damp body skin. Start at your feet, and work your way up to your thighs. End with a splash of cool water—from ankles to hips—for a refreshing at-home prenatal spa experience.

What’s the best skincare for your face during pregnancy?

Pregnancy hormones can increase happiness—but these very same hormonal changes can also compromise your skin’s moisture level and radiance, leaving it dry and dull. Clarins’ Hydra-Essentiel treatments—with super-quenching organic leaf of life extract—are the go-to formulas for thirsty skin. Our Pregnancy Skincare Experts recommend Hydra-Essentiel Bi-phase Serum and Hydra-Essentiel Silky Cream—an intensely hydrating duo that will keep your skin looking radiant, and feeling comfortable all throughout your pregnancy. If your main concerns are radiance and anti-aging, our Multi-Active skin care range delivers round-the-clock care during this challenging time. Multi-Active Day Cream—with revitalizing teasel extract—targets fine lines and boosts skin’s radiance. Multi-Active Night Cream—with ginger lily extract—nourishes skin while you sleep, so you look rested and refreshed by morning. Total Eye Revive's cream gel formula targets puffiness, dark circles and fine lines to visibly minimize signs of stress and fatigue.

Comment lutter contre les signes de fatigue sur le visage ?

La grossesse, c’est l’occasion de prendre de bonnes habitudes. Les futures mamans vont devoir gérer leur vie active, les nuits courtes, le stress des premiers mois avec un nouveau-né… Pour prévenir l’apparition des premières rides et ridules et préserver la jeunesse de la peau, confiez votre visage à la gamme de soins Multi-Active. Des soins au petit soin 24h sur 24 pour les jeunes femmes sous tension. Le jour, la crème Multi-Active Jour revitalise la peau et lui donne le tonus pour affronter des journées intenses. La nuit, Multi-Active Nuit comble la peau d’énergie et la berce de douceur, pour se réveiller en beauté. L’extrait de cardère bio encapsulée protège et ré-énergise la jeunesse de la peau. Un duo de soin anti grise mine, à compléter par le défatigant éclair contour des yeux Multi-Active Yeux pour décongestionner et atténuer les poches et les cernes. Objectif : un visage reposé, détendu, sans signes de fatigue. Pari tenu !

How to maintain a radiant glow after childbirth?

Soon after giving birth, many moms get the "baby blues”—sadness or mood swings resulting from a sudden decrease in estrogen and progesterone, lack of sleep, poor body image, and coping with all of the new responsibilities that come with motherhood. Don’t worry. This is very common, and usually resolves within a few weeks.

Cheer yourself up with one of Clarins’ pampering skincare sets for pre- and post-pregnancy—including formulas that will take your skin from dull and fatigued, to perfectly radiant. A beauty essential for any maternity kit: Bestselling Beauty Flash Balm visibly smooths fine lines, boosts skin’s radiance and eliminates signs of fatigue in a flash. It also doubles as a 10-minute energy mask! Clarins also has a multitude of gift ideas and e-gift certificates, so drop a few hints to family and friends. After all, new moms need some babying too.

How to visibly reduce stretch marks after pregnancy?

During the last trimester of pregnancy, body skin is really put to the test. With rapid weight fluctuations, ruptured elastin fibers within the epidermis can lead to stretch marks—fine purple-pink lines on the stomach, hips, breasts, and backs of arms…anywhere the skin is overstretched. To help prevent their formation, and visibly reduce those that may occur, count on Clarins Body Partner Stretch Mark Expert—a gentle, mom-friendly, lightweight cream formulated with our exclusive, stretch mark-targeting PhytoStretchComplex—a powerful blend of centella asiatica and organic green banana extracts to visibly firm, comfort, and boost skin’s elasticity. View Clarins exclusive application methods to achieve the desired results.

What skin care products should I use to firm and tone my body?

To help refine your silhouette after giving birth, follow Clarins’ simple Exfoliate + Tone + Massage routine. Scrub your body once or twice a week with Exfoliating Body Scrub For Smooth Skin—a refreshing cream that gently polishes away dry cells, flakes, and impurities with naturally exfoliating bamboo powders. Follow with Tonic Body Treatment Oil—formulated with 100% plant extracts—to visibly tone, firm, and improve elasticity. Or opt for Contour Body Treatment Oil. It’s formulated with 100% plant extracts that help release excess fluids and toxins to visibly firm, tone, and reduce the look of sponginess for a slimmer-looking silhouette. Next, massage Body Fit Anti-Cellulite Contouring Expert onto clean, dry skin. This cream-gel treatment is powered by 8 targeted plant extracts—including organic quince leaf—that visibly firm, lift, and streamline thighs and hips with unprecedented results. The expert get-back-into-shape strategy for visibly firm, toned body skin.

What skin care products visibly reduce facial puffiness and swelling?

Facial swelling that can accompany pregnancy is the last thing you want to wake up to. Clarins’ award-winning V-Facial Intensive Wrap is the 10-minute solution for morning puffiness and swelling caused by hormonal changes, heat, and stress. This luxurious cream-mousse face mask—with beautyberry and zerumbet ginger extracts, and horse chestnut escin—relieves puffiness to visibly refine facial contours. Lady’s mantle extract defies dullness and helps even skin tone to get your skin glowing again. Use with Clarins’ entire V-Shaping Facial Lift range for optimal results.

How to help breasts regain their pre-pregnancy shape?

Clarins has two expert treatments to support you and your breasts 24/7. Bust Beauty Extra-Lift Gel*—with natural plant extracts of vu sua and oat sugars—is a refreshing hydrating gel that delivers an immediate tightening effect from base of breasts to chin. Used each morning, it fights sagging by creating an invisible “natural bra” that visibly firms, lifts, and tones to promote a shapelier silhouette. Bust Beauty Firming Lotion—with plant extracts of vu sua, centella asiatica, and bocoa—is a lightweight, before-bed lotion that visibly tones, firms, tightens, and smoothes. Two indispensable formulas to support breast beauty!

*Do not use if breastfeeding.