Homemade Deodorant
This deodorant turned out really good! I loved the smells I choose and everyone who tried it really liked it! We did find that a couple of us needed to reapply in the evening to keep off any smell. After a couple weeks of using this recipe my armpits started really itching! Like pretty bad! While researching recipes I found that this was a complaint for probably an allergy to the baking soda... I was the only one out of 10 to have this problem... So I will try another recipe soon to fix this!
I hatted the fact of going back to deodorant with aluminum in it, but I couldn't handle the itching, and I need to wear something!
The recipe is easy! Here it is:
3 T Baking Soda
2 T Corn Starch
3 T Shea Butter
2 T Cocoa Butter
1 t Vitamin E
1 t Vegetable Glycerine
Essential Oil of choice
Melt all the ingredients except essential oils in a double broiler
Then add your essential oils (I just did to smell) and stir it in.
Pour into leftover deodorant containers or you can get some here.
Let them sit until solid. I put mine in the fridge to speed it up.
This recipe filled 5- .50 oz deodorant container.
I made 2 batches- one with Orange essential oils and one with Milk and Honey. They were both equally popular!
These can just hang out on your bathroom counter and use like regular!
Over the holidays we had a lot of family here!
My parents had my brother and his wife from Amsterdam and there new little twins for a month! And I finally got to meet the little angels!! There were beyond perfect! And sooo cute!! X2!
Baby Joey and Emma!
We couldn't get enough of them!
Natalie with Emma
Natalie giving Joey kisses
My dad, brother and nephew
Papa Joe loving being a grandpa!
Ryan's family was here also! Here was a busy place!
He had his grandpa and grandma from New Jersey here for 10 days over Christmas. Grandma from California, 103(almost 104)year old Great grandma from New Jersey here from before Christmas until The beginning of Feburary! Full house!
Here is Nanny and Brooklyn: 100 year age difference!
:)
Also, Ryan's brother, Tyler, was here for the last weekend they were all here. He lives in Texas now. (ya, they are all over the US).
Surprisingly Natalie took to him right away!
It was a fun, busy 2 months! :)
Thanks for sharing this recipe, Katie. I think I may try it. Wonder if there is a way to determine a baking soda allergy other than trial & error with deodorant...?
ReplyDeleteYa, I don't know... I am going to try another recipe that I found that doesn't use any baking soda and hopefully that will work for me! It took like 1 1/2-2 weeks to start itching and then after I stopped using it it took another 1 or a little longer to stop itching! :( I hope it works for you! Like I said I was the only one that had that problem, so hopefully you won't!
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