For any of those who have been through pregnancy, you know your skin can go through some crazy changes – pregnancy glow? Adult acne? Uncontrollable itching and swelling? These are just a few of the many conditions that can affect you during, and after, the 9 months of pregnancy.

Mustela 9 Months Maternity is a line of skin care products developed to support expecting mothers as their skin changes during pregnancy and postpartum. They have been designed to moisturize the skin, relieve pain, reduce the appearance of stretch marks, and decrease skin sensitivity.

Using all 8 of their products, Mustela 9 Months Maternity promises to offer comprehensive benefits for mothers trying to take care of their skin, but does this line use the right ingredients to deliver real results?

Mustela 9 Months Maternity

The majority of the products in Mustela 9 Months Maternity’s line use three main ingredients:

Elastoregulator: This ingredient is a patented derivative of soy peptides. It’s supposedly designed to help the skin become more elastic, helping it stretch without unsightly marks and blemishes by purportedly stimulating the production of “support proteins.”

Soy proteins are backed up by much of any scientific evidence. If soy peptides really help support protein stimulation, we’d probably see them much more in products.

Lupeol: Lupeol has been through more clinical tests than Elastoregulator has. Studies showed that Lupeol helped trigger the synthesis of more collagen in arthritic rats. More collagen helps keeps the skin firm, thick, and elastic. It’s also been shown to reduce inflammation in rodent studies. But while Lupeol has done well in animal testing, much research still needs to be done on how it affects humans.

Avocado Peptides: Avocado peptides are included to reduce skin sensitivity, preventing dry, itchy skin while nursing. This company claims to keep the skin supple, more elastic, and more fortified to resist stretching. There is some research that this ingredient has been effective on humans.

Conclusion

Mustela 9 Months Maternity’s has a mix of decent and ineffective ingredients. But we wouldn’t recommend paying for a product that isn’t the best? Aside from not having superior ingredients, Mustela 9 Months Maternity isn’t cheap. Its products range in price from anywhere from $14.00 to $40.00.

If you get all 8 products, it will end up costing you over $100. We recommend trying another product line with more notoriety, like Palmer’s, which comes with stretch mark creams and sprays designed to control itching.