When you have dark underarms, your most embarrassing moment could be when you wear your favorite sleeveless dress. To people that have fair skin, dark underarms are a major concern because dark underarms are more visible on fair skin. The symptoms of dark underarms are dark skin along the area of the armpits, sweating, itching and bad odor. The causes of dark underarms are shaving, friction as a result of wearing tight tops and blouses that brush against the skin, infections that are a result of improper washing the underarms, excessive sweating, dead skin buildup, strong fragrances and alcohol that are used in deodorants, the buildup of dead skin, and chemicals.

Home Remedies for Dark Armpits

One of the best home remedies for dark underarms is lemons. You take slices of lemon and rub them on your armpits. Instead of using deodorant, use alum powder. After you take a shower, rub some backing soda onto your armpits. Then you can apply Vitamin E oil on your armpits. Then wash your armpits with a little coconut oil. You can also create a paste out of one teaspoon of lime juice and one teaspoon of cucumber juice as well as a hint of turmeric powder. Apply the mixture to your armpits and then after twenty minutes, rinse.

Other dark underarms cure include a mixture of one tablespoon of curd and one teaspoon of gram flour accompanied by a hint of turmeric and one teaspoon of milk. You can apply this mixture to your underarms and rinse after it has dried with cold water. Then you can create a paste of sandalwood powder and rose water and apply that to your underarms.

Using Home Remedies

When using dark underarms treatment , you need to make sure that you consult your family doctor before you start using the home remedy. Your doctor will be able to tell you whether or not the home remedy you are interested in is going to affect your health overall. You have to be careful with what use to treat your condition because you don’t know how your body is going to react to it. You are trying to make your condition better not worse. Home remedies all in all, are really good for your body and most of the time, they are not going to cause you any problems but there is always a chance that something could happen.

Overall, you just have to make sure that you follow proper hygiene techniques each day and you have to make sure that you do everything you possibly can to eliminate the problem. Stray away from those anti-perspirants that have chemicals in them which can cause your skin to be a dark color. Also make sure that you don’t wear tight tops that are going to sweep across your chest. Basically, if you follow the home remedies in this article, you want have to worry about those dark underarms anymore. Once you have found a way to get rid of your dark underarms, you will be able to more confident about your appearance. This is one of the useful dark underarms home remedies.

You will also have a higher self esteem and you want have to worry about wearing those sleeveless tops anymore.

Add your Home Remedy below..

Comments

MY COUSIN'S WEDDING IS COMING UP AND I HAVE TO WEAR A SLEEVE LESS DRESS BY JULY 12,2008!!I NEED HELP A.S.A.P WITH MY DARK UNDERARMS!!

#1 - Rocio Aleman - 06/10/2008 - 13:41

PUT WATERPROOF FOUNDATION THAT MATCHES YOUR SKIN COLOR.

#2 - BETH F - 09/22/2008 - 21:01

what I do is baking soda with lemon juice apply before you go t shower

#3 - jen - 03/15/2009 - 01:41

apply paste of turmeric powder, honey nd curd of 10 mins nd wash them with cold water

#4 - jade - 04/16/2009 - 10:00

Use scotch brite or sand paper...
it works
but try to endue the pain...

#5 - remy - 05/18/2009 - 09:36

what will i do with my dark underamrs?i want to wear sleeveless but i cant because of my dark underarms=(please help me..

#6 - tin - 09/02/2009 - 07:16

lose weight, avoid using very tight_sleeved tees because they cause friction.... pluck or wax your armpit hairs.

#7 - cola - 11/04/2009 - 02:13

i try 2 used lemon in my dark armpits,but it doesnt work in me,its still dark..what should i do? continue using the lemon or not?

#8 - ashley - 05/17/2010 - 14:49

i have to attend my frns b'day party on 9th septenber 2010 n want to wear a sleeveless top but i have black under arms...need ur help

#9 - sonia - 08/30/2010 - 04:45

i have dark armpits and no matter i scrub my arm the darkness still won't come of .what can i do to get back my arms clear and normal?

#10 - reanne - 10/11/2010 - 18:54

I hv very dark armpits nd bikni area.i m in great trouble.plz help me

#11 - Kritika - 11/25/2010 - 13:26

i have dark armpits how can i get solution 4 tis.... help me

#12 - priya - 12/27/2010 - 13:25

I've dark armpits and m rly worried abt tht......pls help me

#13 - neesh - 01/17/2011 - 08:40

I have axillary hyperhidrosis and anti perspirants were recommended to control the sweating. this has been working but my under arm is black. ur article says no antiperspirants. do i have to choose between reduced sweating and a clearer armpit?

#14 - Alexis - 03/08/2011 - 08:35

OMG !!!! i have dark underarms and i have dance tryouts this week on wednesday , thursdsay , and on friday. and what we have to wear is dealing with me wearing a tranning bras , and sleaveless tops (white and black) , and i really need help NOW so i ca do the dance tryouts HELP ASAP !!!!!!!

#15 - natasha - 09/18/2011 - 14:15

Hi i am rubbing lemon slices twice a day from last 4 days and really got very exiting results. Please do not wash out ur ampits after applying lemon slices. Apply the same after taking the shower. My armpits were dark and now it has become brown in colour. I am sure that contineously doing this for 2-3 weeks will give me 100% results. Also apply baking soda after 15 mins of applying the lemon slices.

Ur armpits will not even have an bad odor . by doing so. From last 4 days i am not even feeling any requirement of using any deo.

Try it……..!!!!!!!

#16 - Rakesh - 09/20/2011 - 13:39

hi friend!!
i have been suffering from this dark armpit problem. I use to think that my armpits are the darkest armpit in the world. then i went to the skin doctor. he said that i hav fungal infection. so he gave me “lulifin cream” to apply on my armpits. then after few months my problem was completely gone.
i have used all the treatments to get rid of my problem. i tried skin peeling.but after the skin peeled off.then again the new skin was dark.
i have used “melalite forte cream” it is also effective if ur fungal infection is cured by “lulifin cream”.
home made remedies dosent work too much.i hav tried all of them.
so my suggestion to you is :- apply “lulifin cream” in night. apply “onabet cream” in day. use both the cream for 3 months.
after that if ur fungal infection is cured then u can use “melelite forte” cream in night(caution: never use melalite forte cream in day time.otherwise it will increase ur darkness in armpit.)
you can find all the creams in any chemist shop.
dear friends!!1 i know how embar[@]ing it feels when u hav dark armpit.but dont worry.this problem is curable.
n the best suggestion is that if you know any good skin doctors then consult them.
dont worry!!its not that big problem.

if you find ant redness in your armpit.then apply “candid B” cream.

#17 - khushi - 10/01/2011 - 03:04

Hi ! Won't it be sticky if u don't wash off ur armpit after leaving lemon on it for a while ?

#18 - Nan - 10/23/2011 - 09:35

Name

Comment

Please enter the text you see in the image below in the appropriate input box.