Things You Should Blame Your Dark Underarms On

How to prevent and brighten dark underarms

This is just the right title to take the blame of you and place them on some things you may directly or inadvertently use on your skin. In our quest to take care of our skin, we most times cause the damage we try so hard to prevent.

DEODORANT : This feels like the biggest betrayal in the skincare routine. How does something created to help cause harm to my skin, you must however understand that many commercial deodorants and antiperspirants contain alcohol, synthetic fragrances, and aluminum compounds. These ingredients can irritate your underarm skin — which is naturally thin and sensitive.

When the skin becomes inflamed, it tries to protect itself by producing more melanin, the pigment responsible for skin color. Over time, this can lead to hyperpigmentation and a darker underarm area. How to fix this? Invest in deodorants with ingredients like licorice root and niacinamide. Not only do they improve the appearance of your underarm, restrict melanic population, they are also fragrance infused, you end up smelling great as well. This is a win win situation

EXFOLIATION: This is such a sensitive topic and at the same time, a well known no brainer. In 2025, no one should dedicatedly advocate for you to exfoliate YOUR own skin. It is a skincare no brainer. You cannot go all week, months and year piling up products and skincare ingredients on your skin without creating a pathway to deeply cleanse off the buildup. It is like applying layers and layers of makeup without taking it off and expecting great skin underneath. Exfoliating your underarm would do more good than changing your deodorant type or your hair removal type. How to fix this? Exfoliate with a great scrub like the Luminescence Foaming Body Scrub, three times a week. This is both a physical and chemical scrub and it does a great job taking care of the build up, brightening the underarms and at the same time, creating better nourishment for the skin under your arms.

FRICTION: Wearing tight clothing, barely allowing your skin breathe is a major red flag for your underarm. A combination of tight clothing, sweat, trapped hair, is a receipt for dark underarms.

SHAVING AND MICRO CUTS : Every time you shave, tiny micro cuts form on your skin. When you immediately apply deodorant afterward, the active ingredients can sting, irritate, and darken those healing spots

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Switching to Sugar Wax will help reduce this constant irritation and allow your skin to breathe.