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dark groin
One of the major reasons for the darkening of the groin is due to wearing tight clothing. It could also be due to friction and constant rubbing of your elastic against your thighs and the skin in that area. People who are overweight are more likely to have a dark groin than people who are not. Women taking oral contraceptives are also known to have a dark groin due to skin pigmentation. Diabetes or other health conditions are also causative factors for a dark groin.
In some cases you may also notice the darkened skin is thickening; this is to protect itself from rubbing. The skin thickens due to excess buildup of keratin. While there are no permanent treatments for this darkening, you can try these home remedies or can also consult a medical professional for laser treatment to reduce the darkening of the groin area.
Home remedies to treat a dark groin
Home remedies are the simplest and safest way to treat a dark groin. Let us take a look at some of them:
- Take some curd and add turmeric powder and lemon juice to it. Apply this mixture on the inner groin and leave it for a few minutes. Wash it off when it dries.
- Apply a mixture of bath oil and lemon juice on the area, rub it with your fingers, and leave it for 30 minutes before taking a bath. This could also do the trick.
- Avoid wearing tight underpants, to reduce the friction on the thighs.
- You can also rub bio oil on the darkened area and leave it for 20 minutes. Wash it off after sometime. This bio oil is suppose to reduce the darkening and and softens the stretch marks.
- Use bath soap with licorice as its active ingredient.
- Regularly exfoliate to shed dead skin.
- You can also drink a cup of milk with turmeric powder in it for two months regularly.
- Regularly use whitening cream which contains salicylic acid in addition to glycolic acid, urea, and tretinoin. These creams contain keratin and which helps in removing the excess dead skin which is thickened.
- Rub some azadirachta leaves on the groin area. You can also use some azadirachta based soap.
- You can also use whitening agents such as hydroquinone to reduce the pigmentation in the groin area.
- Apply almond powder on the darkened area till the time you notice some difference in the color.
- If you have dark groin due to obesity, you first need to lose weight. Any treatment for whitening the area would not help unless you lose some weight.
It is advised to consult a doctor before you go ahead with any home remedy treatment.
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