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On first glance, it seems like there's way to many ingredients over all. Im always wary of "kitchen sink" products. It would take forever to look up relevant studies on each herbal ingredient and figure out whether it's at all plausible that they would cause a local reduction, whether by fat or water loss, so Im not even going try, but I honestly don't think it's necessary in this case. On the other hand, there does seem to be some caffeine in there, which is usually considered to be the best local diuretic. There also apparently used to be an effective diuretic in preparation-H, but it was removed fom the product in the US. IMO, in most of these diuretic formulas, everything other than caffeine and carriers is just a waste. I know that that they claim that their product "gives you detoxifying, tightening, toning and firming", but in my opinion that's just clever marketing speak for "water loss". They also say that "many body wraps simply cause water loss" in an attempt to imply that their body wrap works in some other way, without ever actually saying that their product doesn't work by causing water loss, or that it causes fat loss, or that the results are permanent. If they made any of those claims outright, they would be lying. It seems to me like they're using tricky wording to avoid being legally accused of lying to customers, but they're also doing everything in their power to get potential customers to come to those conclusions on their own. Some of the ingredients might have a systemic effect to increase actual "dry" body weight loss over time, but you'd need to use it several times a day everyday for it to work in that way, and the effect wouldn't be local. It also might have some effect on your skin, but it couldn't actually cinch up your skin like a tummy tuck, especiall not to the point that your own skin would suck you in enough to reduce your measurements.

In my opinion, there are only 3 ingredients that have a plausible chance of reducing body fat locally. None of them have anywhere near enough support to be considered "proven" to work, but they still seem way more plausible than most other stuff out there. They are aminophylline, yohimbine, and forskolin. There doesn't really seem to be a safe reliable source of topical aminophylline at this time, and it's super expensive. The few companies that sell it strike me as extremely fishy. As another option, you could buy a liquid "coleus forskohlii" extract as a source of forskilin, and it'll probably be cheaper than yohimbine cream, if price is an issue. I might try it out myself in the future. You would need to mix it with carriers for penetration. Of course, If I were drowning in cash (I wish!) I might buy both the forskohlii extract and Yohimburn and mix them together.