DARK UNDERARM

Feeling Shy With Dark Underarm?

Dark underarms are a condition when the skin under the arms or the armpits as we know gets dark. Dark underarms are often the cause of embarrassment when you wear your favourite sleeveless top. Dark underarms are of more concern to fair people because it is visible more on fair skin. Dark underarms can be the result of improper cleaning, sweating, dead skin cells and friction due to different types of clothes. For some people, it may be due to shaving products or deodorants containing alcohol. Dark underarms may be accompanied by itching, sweating and bad odor. There are several ways to treat the problem naturally. In the following lines, we provide the home remedies to cure dark underarms.

Symptoms of Dark Underarms

-Dark skin at armpits
-Itching
-Sweating
-Bad odor (How to eliminate)

Causes of Dark Underarms

-Friction due to tight blouses and tops
-Excessive sweating
-Infections due to improper washing of underarms
-Shaving
-Dead skin build-up
-Chemicals
-Alcohol and strong fragrance in deodorants
-Hyper pigmentationHair removal cream

Home Remedy for Dark Underarms

-The best and effective home remedy to treat dark underarms it to use lemon. Take a piece of lemon and rub it on the armpits.

-Potato is an active bleaching agent. Apply potato juice on the underarms and keep it for sometime. It would effectively remove the darkness of the armpits.

-Tomato also has great bleaching properties and rubbing raw tomato slices on the underarms for at least 10 minutes every day can help lighten underarm skin considerably.

-Rub the underarms with coconut oil to remove the darkness from the underarms.

-Baking soda also acts favourably in curing the darkness of the underarms. After bath, apply some baking soda onto the armpits.

-Apply Vitamin E oil on the armpits to treat dark underarms.

-Make a paste using 1 tsp of lime juice, 1 tsp of cucumber juice as well as a hint of turmeric powder. Apply this paste on your armpits and wash off after 20 minutes.

-Take 1 tsp of gram flour, 1 tsp of curd and a pinch of turmeric to make a paste. Apply this mixture to your armpits and rinse after it has dried with cold water.

-Mix a little sandalwood powder and a few drops of rose water to make a paste. Apply this paste onto your underarms.

-Prepared a mixture of a tablespoon of fresh yogurt with some dried orange peel powder. This mixture can be regularly applied to the armpits to effectively remove dark underarms.

Other Suggestions for Dark underarms

Use anti-fungal powder instead of anti-perspirants. Wear cotton clothes instead. Do not shave your underarms, instead wax them regularly. It will not only remove hair but also the dead skin.