The BEST Homemade Deodorant (no rash!)
- Prep Time: 35 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 1 deodorant stick (2.5oz) 1x
- Category: DIY, personal care
- Method: Double boiler
Ingredients
18g coconut oil (1 1/4 Tbsp)
18g Tallow from Grass-Fed Cows (1 1/4 Tbsp)
9g beeswax Beeswax (1 packed Tbsp)
37g arrowroot powder (4 1/2 Tbsp spooned and leveled)
12g baking soda (2 1/2 tsp)
3g Non-nano zinc oxide (1 packed tsp)
2g kaolin clay (1 packed tsp)
9 drops rosemary extract (1/8 tsp)
4 drops Non-GMO Vitamin E (1/8 tsp)
8-15 drops pure essential oils - (I use half pure vanilla oleoresin and half sweet orange essential oil). Make sure there's NO "fragrance" term used - a few trustable brands are Revive, Plant Therapy, Young Living. Lots of brands use fragrance, have poor ingredient quality, or harvest unethically.
Instructions
- Using a kitchen scale helps make the process faster and more precise, but standard measuring works too!
- Use a double boiler or a small pot sitting inside a big pot (bottom pot filled with water for double boiler method).
- Add the coconut oil, grass-fed tallow, and beeswax to the top pot and melt, stirring occasionally, over a little above medium heat until fully incorporated.
- In a small bowl, mix together the arrowroot powder, baking soda, non-nano zinc oxide, and kaolin clay.
- Add the mixed dry powder to the melted mixture and stir together to combine.
- Remove from heat and add the rosemary extract, vitamin E oil, and pure essential oils of choice and/or vanilla oleoresin. Mix to combine. It will have a spotted appearance because of the rosemary extract, and that’s totally fine!
- Let it cool for a couple more minutes then pour into a mini 4-oz mason jar or empty deodorant containers (If using deodorant tubes, you want to pour from the bottom NOT the top, unless you specifically have a top fill deodorant tube – MOST are bottom fill!)
- For the deodorant container: If you are reusing an old container, clean out any old deodorant, and take off the bottom cap of the container (what you use to twist up the deodorant). If you can’t take off the bottom cap, then I recommend buying empty deodorant containers. It won’t work to pour from the top because it will get into the twist compartment, which you don’t want. You also want to make sure the clear round inner lid is on securely because it is what will catch the deodorant and create the beautiful rounded top of the deodorant.
- After poured, do not put the bottom cap on yet. Place the deodorant in the refrigerator to harden for 2 hours. Once hardened, put the bottom cap on. If using reusable deodorant containers, please be sure to save the clear round inner lid for your next batch because you’ll need it each time.
- I hope you love it!! Be sure to leave a review if you try it out!
Notes
Scent for men: For my husband, I use these essential oils: 7 drops bergamot, 7 drops sweet orange, and 2 drops eucalyptus. Sandalwood would also be amazing in mens! I also add a little less than 1/16 of a tsp of activated charcoal powder to his deodorant. It can help more with detoxing the armpits and also give a gray tinge to the deodorant, which he seems to like.
