I believe that black is beautiful, but if your underarms are darker than the rest of your body parts, then you might have a problem. Don’t give up just yet because there are secrets to whiter underarms, but the key to it is you have to know first the possible reasons of having darker underarms.
Improper Shaving
Improper shaving irritates your underarm skin thus there are some darkening after few weeks. Because if improper shaving, you may also have ingrown hair that causes chicken skin or raised bumps.
Solution: Remember that underarm hair grows in different directions so be sure to shave your underarms in all directions – downward, upward and sideways.
Scrubbing Too Hard
Yes, you need to exfoliate your underarm but anything excessive is not good. Too much or too hard scrubbing can irritate your skin that may result to darker underarms.
Solution: Exfoliate your underarms twice per week. This will avoid irritation from too frequent scrubbing.
Heavily-Scented Deodorants
Strong chemicals like alcohols and fragrances can cause darker underarms (depends on the chemicals present).
Solution: If body odor can be managed by bathing then opt to it. If not, use deodorants that are not heavily-scented or opt to natural ones like lemon.
Genetics
Sadly, genes sometimes contribute to darker underarms but it doesn’t mean that because everyone in your family has it you also have to deal with it.
Solution: There are now laser treatments available on salons that can remove the unwanted hair and can whiten your underarm skin inside out.
So why bother to have whiter underarms (most especially the women)? Let’s face it…darker underarms are so unattractive that restrict you from wearing sleeveless and tank tops. It may also cause you humiliation. So why not bother?
Good thing I always prefer to use non-scented deo. 🙂
It’s really a plus when you have a white underarm!
It’s a plus for women to have whiter underarm.
Thankfully, my underarms are abnormally white. 🙂
I have really good underarms. Thank God for that.
White underarms FTW! It’s a must for girls!
I realized that I can’t have a whiter underarm because my skin is really brown. 🙂
I shave my underarms, but now im trying waxing and IPL. mas ok yung results. and my beauty therapist told me nakaka-help talaga to prevent dark underarms.
nice tips, will try these. didn’t know that exfoliating hurts the skin.
Wow! I didn’t know that genes play a part!
Nowadays there are no impossible. Women can be beautiful or whiter the way they want it if they have money to pay for beauty treatments and surgery but it is still good to have natural beauty and skin 🙂
Use calamansi instead of deodorant. It prevents body odor and whitens the skin at the same time!
Thanks for sharing this.
Deodorant are always the culprit. Don’t use it if it’s not needed or choose a mild deo instead. We can only blame it to the commercials. Usually yun pa ang mga nakakaitim.
Well, I do use calamansi and tawas both are natural underarm whitener and can also prevent bad odor
You’ve listed all possible reasons. Nice pa mandin mag wear sleeveless pag summer.. pede din ung may mejo darker underarms wag na lang itaas lol!
more often than not, it is the improper or excessive shaving that makes the underarm blacker than usual.
Whiter Underarm is really a MUST! hehe. Thanks for the tips =)
I’ll let you in to a little secret: women hair don’t shave! wehehehe I just can’t help but laugh when I get to peek, but there are those like me who are meticulous about it but there are also those who just doesn’t care…
gusto kng ma mntain
importanty sa isang babae ang maputi at malinis ang kanyang kilikili