TONE ’EM UP: THE REMEDIES TO FIRM UP SAGGING ARMS.

Physical activity alone is not enough to tone up sagging underarm skin. It’s also paramount to follow a healthy diet and a wholesome lifestyle.

Over the age of 40, many women are plagued with an annoying blemish: sagging arms. The skin between the elbow and the armpit, covering the triceps muscle, loses its elasticity and tone, thus complying with gravity and inevitably collapsing downwards. This condition goes by many nicknames: “bat wings”, “flag arms”, “curtain arms”. But perhaps the most effective term comes from the United States: “bingo wings”. The idea of a Florida pensioner enthusiastically shaking her bingo card, causing her underarm to ripple and flap is pretty evocative.

It is therefore not surprising that limp arms are considered the main aesthetic concern for ten percent of American women, as emerged from a recent survey conducted by Women’s Health magazine. Such high a percentage makes us understand bingo wings are perceived as an unsolvable problem, if you don’t want to resort to invasive and expensive surgery.

The causes of wobbly arms.

Excess underarm skin is the consequence of two types of factors: internal factors such as genetics and aging, and external ones such as photoaging and unhealthy lifestyle choices.

Cutaneous aging. This is the first cause of progressive tone loss in the arms, and it commences at around 25 years of age. Dermal fibroblasts experience a decrease in collagen and elastin production, and the effects on cutaneous tonicity and elasticity are more evident in the area of