DIY Coconut Oil Deodorant
Happy Armpits: Make Your Own Coconut-Oil Deodorant (Recipe Included!)
By Ana Jadanec
Guest Writer for Wake Up World
I’ve always been picky about deodorants.
Not because they didn’t do their “job”, but there was always something I
wasn’t too happy with. Scent, consistency, usability, bottle shape,
irritation, drying factor… Well, this whole pickyness escalated in 2003
when I read the ingredients printed on the packaging of my store bought
deodorant.
Aluminium jumped right at me. Let me
just explain what this most abundant metal in Earth’s crust does, and
how it ended on our armpits.
Aluminium-based complexes
react with the electrolytes in the sweat to form a gel plug in the duct
of the sweat gland. What this means is that someone in some lab
discovered that adding aluminium complexes into the already suspicious
mix of ingredients in deodorants closes pores in the skin and prevents
sweat production. Well, this new piece of information officially started
my crusade for happy armpits, without metals from Earth’s crust.
I allowed all this for years because my
skin has always been very free-spirited and abundantly willing to
express itself and its dislikes since childhood; so, I just took it as
one of those things that the biggest bodily organ does on an equally
strange human body.
But all this changed when I discovered Coconut Oil, a wonder of nature used in the Philippines for centuries.
Recipe for Homemade Deodorant with Coconut Oil
The recipe is simple….
Ingredients:
1/4 cup melted unrefined extra virgin coconut oil which corresponds to 4 tablespoons of solid coconut oil
1/4 cup baking soda
1/4 cup corn starch
10 drops of essential oils (I used lavender and tea tree oil)
Glass jar with lid
Steps:
Place all the dry ingredients into your favorite bowl (you should love your utensils!)Add the melted coconut oil and essential oils and stir well.
You’ll
end up with a fragrant paste which should be poured into a jar before
it solidifies. Remember, coconut oil’s natural state is solid, and the
end product should look something like this.
Leave it to cool naturally before
placing it in the fridge for extra solidification. I like to keep it at
room temperature for easier application, but you can also keep it in
your fridge.
The Final Word
Oh, and in case you wondered how these ingredients have been proven to work… baking soda absorbs odors, cornstarch absorbs wetness and coconut oil
is an anti-oxidant and a moisturizer with anti-fungal/anti-bacterial
properties. The essential oils you added will add their own properties.
In my case, I added lavender oil as an antiseptic and tea tree oil for
its antibacterial, anti-fungal and antiseptic qualities.
And that’s how you can create happy arm
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