Easy Homemade Deodorant
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This Super Easy Homemade Natural Deodorant recipe smells great and really works! It's made with clean, all-natural ingredients that keep you dry and smelling great, and it takes just minutes to make.
Why You Should Make Your Own Deodorant
Making your own personal care products is a great way to remove toxins from your home (and get them off your body), but they can be tricky.
Thankfully, there are some easy recipes out there, and one of them is this easy homemade deodorant. Simple ingredients, great results, and no stink.
Why You'll Love This Recipe
This recipe is:
- easy to make
- feels great going on
- has great odor-killing properties
- doesn't have too much baking soda, so it's great for sensitive skin too.
Ingredients
Easy Homemade Deodorant Recipe
This Easy Homemade Deodorant is clean and all natural, great for sensitive skin, and comes together in just minutes.
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Ingredients
- 5 tablespoons shea butter
- 1/4 cup arrowroot powder
- 1 1/2 tablespoons baking soda
- 12 drops essential oils
- 6 drops vitamin E oil
Instructions
- Heat the shea butter in a double boiler over low heat until melted.
- Stir in the arrowroot, baking soda, essential oils, and vitamin E until fully combined.
- Pour into glass jar and let cool completely.
- Store in a cool, dry place with the lid on.
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What Natural Personal Care products have you made?
I have been making my own for a while now too, much to my husbands chagrin! (Geez, you make EVERYTHING!) Anyways, none of the natural deodorants I tried ever worked for me, and this does.
I gave a mason jar to many friends for xmas, and they all love it too! Shea butter, coconut oil, arrowroot, baking soda, and essential oil of choice for smell (i use lavender). I am sure the recipe could be tweaked for no starch…it helps bind it is all. No staining, and feels like you are rubbing a moisturizer on your pits!
I’d love that. Is it on your site?
I make the one w/ shea butter here: (Link deleted by Whole New Mom due to it not working anymore)
However I use more shea butter b/c I love it!
Easier to use the salt one for 2 dollars at dollar store.I’ve been using mine for over a year now, works great. I just give a little swirl around with the wetted block….no 15 seconds stuff.
If you mean the rocks I’ve heard they have aluminum in them. Check it out.
Adrienne, just read you old postings here about deodorant. I found one site about 2 or 3 months ago who touted the “perfect deodorant”. I decided to try it out, what could it hurt? WOW just love it! and have been using it ever since.
What is it? Just plain Organic Tropical Traditions Coconut Oil (or any other kind). Just rub it into you underarms daily. If you had any roughness or bumpiness there, it will be gone and the underarms soft like a babies. No odor forms in my underarm area or on my clothing. Regular deodorants left an unpleasant smell both on me and on my clothing, no matter which brand or scent or no-scent I used.
Thanks for all your blogging. I am an old mom, actually now a great-grandmom!
No way…just coconut oil? I wonder why? Truth is, I am not that young….but don’t tell anyone :). A great grandmom—-that’s something.
I had made my own deodorant last year and it worked great…for about a month then my armpits got red and irritated. I wasn’t sure what was causing it so I just stopped using it, but now I think it could have been the baking soda. I also tried going without any deodorant but I grossed myself out. 🙂
have tried using a powder brush to ‘fluff’ baking soda under arms that were damp from showering/washing. Seemed to work okay. Also tried homemade recipe with coconut oil, baking soda and cornstarch plus a few drops of bergamot or lavender essential oils, but it made my underarms itch like crazy after a few days! Now, after reading the cautions in the comments, I wonder if the cornstarch fed some sort of yeast growth Will try it again sans cornstarch.
Love this blog and all the helpful reader comments!
Yep, I am concerned about the starch.
I love that I found you site! Thanks for sharing this. I recently stopped using store bought deodorants. It’s the last area of personal care that I needed to change over to all natural or homemade.
I have a recipe I’ve been wanting to try, but since I am missing some of the ingredients, this is what I’ve been doing.
1 dab of coconut oil
1-2 drops each of tea tree oil and lavender (or a citrusy mix that I have on hand that helps cleanse the lymph system–smells wonderful!)
a sprinkle of Baking soda
I put all that in my palm, rub to melt the coconut and apply like a lotion under my arms. I LOVE IT! It’s so simple, yet effective too. I have some sweating, but NO smell issues! But since sweating is a natural bodily function, and one that is essential, I am willing to get used to it. 🙂
Interesting – great tip. Thanks. Maybe mix that all together and then you don’t have to mix it daily :).
My recipe that seems to work great is easy too:
1/4 c. cornstarch
1/4 c. baking soda
2 TBS. coconut oil
and about 10 drops lavender
Smells great, never need to reapply in a day, and this recipe fills 2 old deodorant containers.
Thanks! Are you concerned with cornstarch and yeast issues? I know it can be an issue in the diaper area. Thanks!
If you’re concerned about cornstarch, or have corn allergies, you can substitute Arrowroot powder for the corn starch.
Great tip. I think arrowroot might still cause the yeast issues since it’s a starch. Today’s most might help make the connection.
FYI – you can dilute the baking soda by 2/3 with 1/3 arrowroot powder and 1/3 corn or potato starch if the straight baking soda starts to burn your skin, as it did mine and my friends’. You can also use a puff to apply it dry and it works just as well as when wet. I also added powdered lavender and patchouli (ground to powder in my coffee grinder) for additional odor-fighting power and a nice scent.
Great tip. I do wonder about the starch being something that could lead to yeast or fungal outbreaks, however, Love the oils idea! I am working on a new deodorant as well :).
I’ve been using my own deodorant for 3-4 years when the storebought ones stopped working for me. I’m allergic to tons of things, so I wanted to avoid purchasing multiple different types of deodorant that I may or may not be able to use. I make my deodorant from coconut oil, baking soda, and cornstarch. It works great…in fact, sometimes I use that mixture to clean and moisturize in the shower. I’ll never go back to store bought. My form probably isn’t as cheap as yours, as coconut oil is not the cheapest product (the container I bought came from the natural food store and was $16) plus the extra cornstarch ingredient. However, my jar of coconut oil contained enough for 6 full recipes of deodorant, and each recipe lasts one year, so doing the math there…it’s quite a bit cheaper than the storebought stuff! Thanks for sharing another way to make your own deodorant. If anyone wants my recipe, I’d be more than happy to pass it along!
Sounds great! I do have another recipe I hope to work on and post soon – w/ no coconut oil :).
Could you post your recipe using coconut oil?
Sarah,
Buy your coconut oil from Trader Joe’s. It’s never more expensive than $6 a jar for 12oz. And it’s the best quality coconut oil I can find in the market. Dr Brown’s Coconut oil is way too expensive and it spoiled quickly, in my opinion.
That is very odd. Coconut oil has a long shelf life.
Please send me the information on how to make it. Thank you
Hi, I used your recipe and made the home made deodorant on Saturday since using it I’ve had a really salty taste in my mouth has anyone else experienced this? other than that it works great I’m so impressed and I’m now looking at other using for bicarb of soda 🙂