Nope! This is not a post about “The War” or about any kinda politics….you should know me better than that. Not something that I’m terribly interested in blogging about.<\/p>\n
A while ago, I stopped using deodorant.<\/p>\n
In trying to make healthier choices, I wanted to not be clogging up my pores with Aluminum filled anti-perspirants.<\/p>\n
I tried the Rock Crystal, and for a while it worked AMAZINGLY. No stench….I still sweat and had some sweet pit circles, but I can handle wet pits – I CANNOT handle any stench! There was no smell, but after a while, I started to react to the crystal, and so I stopped. I bought some other alternative deodorants, but they never really worked.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, I am at home most of the time, and so on a lot of days, I’d just wear nothing, and if I noticed any smell, I’d just go and wash up, and VOILA! Problem solved. This didn’t help me if I were out and especially if I were out ALL DAY! <\/p>\n
I was a nervous wreck, wondering if someone was thinking and wondering who forgot to bathe that day.<\/p>\n
I’ve been thinking about making my own deodorant for a while, and just didn’t have the ingredients around for the recipes that I’d seen.<\/p>\n
Last week, early in the week, I was googling homemade deodorants, and came across this site and her recipe for a deodorant<\/a> and probably the most exciting thing was that I had the ingredients on hand….sort of.<\/p>\n I didn’t have arrowroot powder, but she also said that you could just cornstarch, and I did have that.<\/p>\n 3 ingredients – baking powder, cornstarch, and coconut oil.<\/p>\n I really didn’t think that it would work all that well – seeing as I’ve tried quite a few different commercially prepared deodorants, and been disappointed. Both Jon and I have been searching for something that would work for both of us. I’ve actually used Lavendar Essential Oil and it smells nice, but it seems to either wear off quickly or just get washed off by the flood of sweat that I seem to produce. It’s awesome, I tell you….really not so much! But Jon’s not so interested in the Lavendar Essential Oil…I can’t imagine why? <\/em><\/p>\n Anyway, I combined the ingredients in a little container, and mixed it all around. My first thought was that it smelled good enough to eat. I was a little concerned about whether or not the “oil” would get my clothes greasy, and about how well it would soak into my skin, and well…..if it would really even work. I put the lid on the container and put it in my bathroom, ready for the next morning.<\/p>\n It had hardend overnight, and if we had an old deodorant container – it would have been almost perfect to have used that, but….we just scooped out a pea sized amount with our fingers and smeared away.<\/p>\n It’s a bit gritty, but it smooths on nicely, and soaks in really fast, and SMELLS SO YUMMY!<\/p>\n I have used it every day since then. Applying once in the morning, and when I do the evening pit sniff to see if I’m delicious enough to crawl into bed with Jon (unfortunately, he doens’t do this for me, and sometimes….he really needs to) I have not once smelled any BO at all! In fact, you can still smell a bit of the coconut oil.<\/p>\n Even the next morning, 24 hours later, all is still well in the stench department.<\/p>\n I am a bit in shock, that something so simple could work so well. I keep wondering if I’ll need to change it up in a bit because it will mysteriously stop working for me or if this is the long term solution for me.<\/p>\n Have you tried any alternative deodorant solutions? Have you found something that you are happy with? or do you just use regular deodorant? and Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nope! This is not a post about “The War” or about any kinda politics….you should know me better than that. Not something that I’m terribly interested in blogging about. A while ago, I stopped using deodorant. In trying to make healthier choices, I wanted to not be clogging up my pores with Aluminum filled anti-perspirants. … Continue reading “Winning the Stinkin’ War!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}