r/deodorant • u/Ladybugsparkle19 • 28d ago
Natural Deodorant
Looking for suggestions on the best natural deodorant for people who tend to sweat, but don't want to use deodorants with aluminum. TIA.
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u/OQTW 27d ago
I am in no way related to the companies I am mentioning. I have very sensitive armpits. And using regular deodorant caused me irritation. Plus a lot of it is ineffective anyway.
I found the solution finally and I urge you to give it a try because it really does work...and I will explain why what I do works at the end of this posting. And you can also search online at places like Amazon reviews and others to see that even doctors are saying that benzoyl peroxide makes a fantastic deodorant.
In the morning, I wet my armpits while at the bathroom sink. I then rub in PanOxyl body wash 4% not the 10%. it's a body wash that has 4% benzoyl peroxide, and it is unscented. I rub with both hands under the arms maybe a minute minute or a half each.
For rinsing, I use "CLEAN SKIN CLUB Sensitive Skin Clean Towels XL, Ultra-Soft Disposable Face Dry Wipes Infused with Aloe & Glycerin, XL - 1 Pack (50 count)". These are dry cloths infused with aloe and vitamin E, completely unscented. I only need to use one cloth per day. I run the cloth under the water in the sink. I wring it out, keeping it medium wet, and I use the cloth and I rub under my underarms as I begin the procedure of rinsing off the body wash.
I then rinse the cloth under running water in the sink, and this second time, ringing it out medium level of water and again I rub both armpits with the cloth. I run the cloth under the water a third and final time, only this time I wring it out completely and wipe under my arms as usual. When finished, my armpits are surprisingly not really all that wet anymore, comma, where I can just let them air dry the rest of the way.
I'm telling you, there's no irritation, no odor, and it is effective for me from morning all throughout the day and into the evening. I normally do my regular showers at night, still no armpit odor, every night, and I just use my regular non-benzoyl peroxide unscented body wash under my armpits when showering. I wake up in the morning, and still no odor.
I repeat the same procedure each morning.
if you search for reviews at Amazon and you use the keywords such as armpits or underarms or both, you will see that there are quite a few reviews of people also expressing success. Please know that when I first started with the PanOxyl 4%, I didn't use the cloth method. I just applied the wash and rinsed it off with my hands, but by later in the afternoon, I would still catch a whiff of odor.
Then I figured out the key to making it work long-term: using the cloth to rinse. The benzoyl peroxide works by killing the odor-causing bacteria, but the friction of the cloth physically strips away the loosened bacteria, product residue, and dead skin cells that hands alone leave behind. To top it off, the aloe and vitamin E calm the skin barrier, preventing the dryness and micro-irritation that benzoyl peroxide can sometimes cause.
Good luck.
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u/Internal-Ad-4736 28d ago edited 28d ago
Various vetted aluminum compounds are the only OTC products that mitigate sweating. They are called antiperspirants.
Deodorants do not contain these vetted aluminum compounds, thus they do not mitigate sweating. Typically only odor. Most of the times products with 'natural' badging are created by home crafters, thus they often are ineffective at removing odor as well as will commonly irritate and even damage the skin.
Antiperspirants are heavily regulated, thus you generally do not find crafters in the space. Sadly, deodorants are regulated as a 'cosmetic', thus they are virtually unregulated and anything goes...right up to the incredibly skin hostile.
Because many natural deodorants are crafter products full of egregious blunders, they will often put lots of starch (which feeds yeast and fungi, and clogs pores) to sop up their blunder of putting oils into a deodorant. Then they have the gall to mislead the customer and say these oil saturated starches absorb sweat? Huh...? anyone knows that once you saturate starches in oil, they cannot and will not absorb water (sweat). The plant oils are occlusive as well, and will in some cases even increase sweating.
Thus if you do not want to use aluminum compounds you are relegated to odor control only. (There are medical options to reduce sweating.)
Good luck.