Home Remedies For Underarms

Every girl dreams for smooth white underarms. Girls love to wear sleeveless spaghetti and strapless gowns. But when they have to wear it, they think of their underarms. 

When the underarm area looks darker than skin tone they prefer to cover up. When you have dark underarms you often feel cautious and embarrass to raise your hands.

It will be good to follow simple home remedies and keep the underarms hygiene. It makes you not just look clean, but also feels confident.

Here Are Few Home Remedies For The Smooth & White Underarms. Always moisture your underarms post waxing.

Lemon juice acts as a wonderful cleansing agent due to the presence of citric in it. Add lemon juice to baking soda and apply this paste, leave it till it dries and wash. Dry thoroughly. Make a scrub with 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 teaspoon honey and  1 teaspoon of powdered walnuts or peanuts. Apply and leave on for 20 minutes. Honey nourishes the skin, while lime acts as a bleaching agent and nuts provide essential nutrients and oils.

Rub the underarms with betel leaves paste to avoid bad odor. Try this for a week and you will feel better

Always try to use an anti fungal powder or alum powder instead of a deodorant. Rub the underarm area with a slice of potato. Potato juice can also be applied with good results as it can bleach skin.

Try slicing up your under arms with zucchini, it makes your underarms fresh

Mash a ripe banana and combine the pulp with 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, a pinch of turmeric powder and apply, leave for 20 minutes. Wash off and dry thoroughly. Later apply moisturizer.

To one tablespoon of sandalwood powder add enough rose water to make a paste. Apply and leave for 15-20 minutes. Wash and dry thoroughly and apply moisturizer.

Some don’ts for Under Arms:-

Try and avoid dark clothing and avoid wearing tight clothing or synthetic fabrics too often as this will cause excessive friction.

Try and have bath twice a day, once in the morning and once before going to bed. Having bath before hitting bed gives you a relaxed and sound sleep.

Take care not to spray deodorants directly on the skin, keep a distance of 5 to 6 cm and spray.

Chemicals present in deodorants are a cause for darkened skin.

Restrict use of depilatory creams as the chemicals darken skin. When you do use a hair removing cream, wash underarm thoroughly with warm water. 

Use a mud pack made with fullers earth as this will absorb all the chemicals and leave the area clean and dry.

Tightening is another process to check on. Loose skin results in darker under arms.  When the arms are very flabby and heavy due to obesity dark underarms can result.