The under arm otherwise known as the armpit is the area under your arm that is known to always have a dark color and sometimes odor.
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Dark armpits or under arm happens to everyone especially when hair starts growing there
and it look awful and embarrassing making a lot of people to always hide it under arm with
their cloth, in most cases people avoid some types of cloths due to their dark under arm.
The darkness under the arm is caused by shaving or plucking hair too often and hormone
disorder while the smell is caused by bacteria when in contact with sweat or fluid that emanates from the body.
Though all this happens naturally but they are ways to clean and brighten up your under arm using natural items.
How to get rid of dark under arm
Brightening your under arm do not necessarily need products with harsh chemical since
they are natural things you can actually use like –
- Baking soda and lemon juice – baking soda is a very good exfoliator that unclogs and brighten dark under arms while lemon juice is a strong antiseptic agent and a natural
bleaching agent, this two combined together will definitely help brighten and clean your armpit. It should be used 3 – 4 times a week.
- Cucumber – cucumber is not just a brighten agent it also has vitamins and minerals all you need to do is to cut the cucumber in slices then rub it on your under arm for about 5 mins
then leave the juice to dry for about 15mins then wash it off repeat this process daily to get result.
- Potato – potato juice is also used to brighten up dark under arm after grating and extracting the juice from the potato.
- Other natural remedies you can use are aloe vera, sugar and olive oil, coconut oil, and apple cider venegar.