If you have sensitive skin then applying any personal product or beauty product becomes a nightmare. While it may be easier to avoid applying certain products altogether, doing away with a deodorant during peak summer season (when body odour can make anybody leave the room) is so not possible. You may resort to spraying perfumes but the particles stay for a long time on the fabric and can even leave stains. So what to do? Enter DIY deodorants that you can easily make at home to smell fresh all day long. Yes, you may not have thought about making them on your own but it’s possible with by combining your favourite fragrance with a moisturising agent and ingredients to take away body odour and voila! You have your very own chemical-free and gas-free deodorant that’s also healthy for the environment.
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Create a double boiler by heating water in a pan and placing a glass bowl over it. Add the coconut oil and shea butter to the bowl after the water starts to boil. Keep stirring the contents till they melt and then add the baking soda, and arrowroot starch. Put the mixture in a jar and let it cool till it becomes somewhat solid. Add the essential oils and stir it once more. Cover this and let it set.
One time application is okay for this natural deodorant but on particularly sweaty days, you can apply it once again, if need be.
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While shea butter is anti-inflammatory, coconut oil has anti-bacterial properties and kaolin clay neutralises bad smells while absorbing moisture.
In a double boiler, add beeswax and keep stirring till it melts. Now add the coconut oil and stir it while adding the shea butter. Remove the bowl from heat and start adding 1 tsp clay to it while whisking it. Now let this cool and add the essential oils only then.
In case a DIY deodorant is too much homework for you, try buying natural deodorant like this handmade Common Oxen Deodorant that comes with the goodness of coconut oil, neem oil, and sesame oil that gives you coverage for 3 months.
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