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In the body there are many body parts which are dark or have dark light patches. When we have dark skin color we don't like to wear sleeveless clothes or swimming suits. This becomes odd for people, they feel uncomfortable in themselves.
There are many cause of dark underarm:
Deodorants and antiperspirants have chemicals that sensate the body when used and are the cause of darkening the skin by reacting with skin. ;
Shaving the underarm c...more
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Last Updated: 2 years ago• Featured Tip
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Your skin is in need of sunlight to make and produce a vitamin which is vitamin d and this has been found to be very essential and important for the formation of bone. You should usually sit in the sun and bask for 5 to 15 minutes two to three times a week to get the sufficient amount of vitamin d that your body needs. There are cells present in the outer layer of your skin that contain melanin which is pigment that is responsible for the protection of your skin from the harm...more
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Last Updated: 5 years ago• Featured Tip
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Dark patches on the skin are a common cause for concern. These patches may not be very harmful but they can affect a person s self-confidence and emotional health. Patchiness is usually the result of excessive sun exposure. Hyperpigmentation is usually used as an umbrella term for all such skin conditions. However, not all dark patches are the same.
What is Hyperpigmentation?
Hyperpigmentation refers to the presence of dark patches of damaged skin triggered by external stressors. Of...more
What is Hyperpigmentation?
Hyperpigmentation refers to the presence of dark patches of damaged skin triggered by external stressors. Of...more
Last Updated: 5 years ago• Featured Tip
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Many Indians are crazy about fair skin and go to extreme lengths to achieve and maintain a fair complexion. The media bombards you daily with very catchy advertisements of creams, lotions, sunscreens and other unscientific products that claim to make your skin fairer. Do you know that your skin colour is darker for very good evolutionary plus biological reasons and that medically speaking, is good that you do not have very fair skin?
Darker skin is adapted to sunlight and has increased ...more
Darker skin is adapted to sunlight and has increased ...more
Last Updated: 5 years ago• Featured Tip
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Many Indians are crazy about fair skin and go to extreme lengths to achieve and maintain a fair complexion. The media bombards you daily with very catchy advertisements of creams, lotions, sunscreens and other unscientific products that claim to make your skin fairer. Do you know that your skin colour is darker for very good evolutionary and biological reasons and that medically speaking, it is good that you do not have very fair skin?
Darker skin is adapted to sunlight and has increase...more
Darker skin is adapted to sunlight and has increase...more
Last Updated: 5 years ago• Featured Tip
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Dark circles are also known as peri orbital dark circles. Dark circles are dark blemishes which appear around the eye. Dark circles can appear at any age although older people are more likely to develop it. They may appear due to anemia, fatigue, medications, allergies, ageing or due to genetic problems. Dark circles may be treated either naturally with various home remedies or through artificial treatment.
The nine remedies stated below are some of the ways to cope up with the problem...more
The nine remedies stated below are some of the ways to cope up with the problem...more
Last Updated: 5 years ago• Featured Tip
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Have you been noticing that some parts of your skin have turned dark and dull recently? Do you have ugly blotches and spots developing on your skin that keep on worsening? These may indicate that you have been affected by a medical condition known as skin darkening. Also known as hyperpigmentation, it is commonly caused by the overproduction of a pigment known as melanin. Although skin darkening is not a harmful condition, it demoralizes an affected person.
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Types of Hyperpigmentation:
Last Updated: 5 years ago• Featured Tip
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We all think of sunscreen as something that goes into our vacation kit when heading out on a hike in the hills or to the beach. What we fear is being out in the sun can reduce fairness and/or case a tan, and a sunscreen will help maintain complexion.
This is a completely wrong notion. What we need to be aware of is that even the regular, daily sun exposure during driving or going to office can do as much damage if not more. The sunscreen, therefore, assumes a very important role in your dail...more
This is a completely wrong notion. What we need to be aware of is that even the regular, daily sun exposure during driving or going to office can do as much damage if not more. The sunscreen, therefore, assumes a very important role in your dail...more
Last Updated: 5 years ago• Featured Tip
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Vitiligo is a skin disorder that leads to the appearance of white patches on the skin surface. The patches appear in random places, with very less underlying order to their arrangement. The cause of this disease is the impairment of skin melanocytes, structures that give skin its dark, or natural, pigment. This can be a result of the body attacking its own cells, making vitiligo an autoimmune disease.
Vitiligo does not occur to people in discrimination of gender and sets on early in lif...more
Vitiligo does not occur to people in discrimination of gender and sets on early in lif...more
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Dark circles appear when the skin under the eyes becomes discoloured or dark. They are mainly caused due to aging, inadequate sleep, heredity, or even stress.
Sometimes, darkening below the eyes can be due to extreme emotional fatigue or depleted adrenals, due to stress or medication.
Homeopathic constitutional treatment will give you a permanent cure naturally.
Sometimes, darkening below the eyes can be due to extreme emotional fatigue or depleted adrenals, due to stress or medication.
Homeopathic constitutional treatment will give you a permanent cure naturally.
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