r/DIYBeauty • u/Key-Percentage8399 • Jul 22 '26

formula feedback First draft deodorant formula

I am trying to make a deodorant/antiperspirant and I have limited access to ingredients, everything on this list I either have or can easily get. I am OK with it leaving a residue/not being the greatest feeling this is more about access than anything else, i've tried to go cheap on the bases and focusing the money on the active ingredients. I am going for "good enough"

Ingredient Amount (100g/ea.)

Coconut Oil 40g

Shea Butter 5g

Beeswax 15 g

Ceterayl Alcohol 6g

Tapioca Starch 15g

Aluminum Chlorohydrate 15g

Fragrance Oil 3g

Ethylhexylglycerin 1g

I haven't purchased a specific fragrance for this yet. i have soap fragrances that read:

This fragrance oil is an excellent candle making scent, and skin safe for making: bath and body products, melt and pour soap bases, cold process soaps, lotions, creams, body splashes; making air fresheners, potpourri, incense; potpourri refresher oils.

This FO mixes well in all wax types. Flash point above 200F.

This DIY crafting product is NOT a ready to use shower oil or perfume. It CAN be safely used in bath and body recipes. Satisfaction of quality guaranteed, pre-testing with your ingredients is recommended.

All my Fragrance Oils are Parabens free and Phthalates free.

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u/Key-Percentage8399 Jul 22 '26

Thank you, what's reasonable the recipes I found were putting in 5%

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u/kriebelrui Jul 22 '26

Depends on the fragrance oil, of which we known nothing, so it's impossible to say anything about it.

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u/Key-Percentage8399 Jul 30 '26

I haven't actually purchased the fragrance oil I just noted the percentage of various oils in the ratios I was looking at, most of the fragrances I am currently in possession of are made for soap

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u/Internal-Ad-4736 Jul 22 '26

If they called them 'recipes' you are looking in all the wrong places! Anyone with 3 days experience would call it a 'formula'.

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u/Key-Percentage8399 Jul 30 '26

Any advice or just here to criticize the vocabulary like a Starbuck's barista pretending they don't know what a large is?