Home Remedies for Dark Elbows and Knees Dark elbows and knees subtract the beauty from your everyday fashion style. This is probably a most common problem in women that they become embarrassed for wearing short sleeve dresses and short skirts due to which the elbows and knees are showed off. So they prefer to wear the dresses through which they can hide the elbows and knees in a good way. Actually the areas of elbows and knees do not possess oil glands that are why the skin of those areas is thicker as compare to the surrounding skin and thus why it is very dry in texture. There must have some care of those areas otherwise the skin of those areas will become darker day by day and at last you will not be able to do anything. There are some major reasons because of which the areas become darker such as continues rubbing, greater exposure to the sun, inheritance, dry skin, hormonal imbalance, obesity, dead skin cells and excess amount of melanin pigment. Here are few of the