Free your pits! Natural deodorant for the win!!!

Natural deodorant? Are you nuts?

Yes, yes I am and you should be too.

We have talked before about our skin being our largest organ and what you put on it goes into it and all the way into you too! EVERYTHING - lotions, exfoliators, soaps, laundry detergent, fabric softeners, shampoo, conditioners - EVERYTHING! 
The junk that is in these things gets pumped through our bodies.

We need to go back to basics.

I have talked before about all the extra crap in the products we use and why they are there. 

It makes no sense. 

This what the heck is that in there for and what does it do holds true for our deodorant too.


As consumers we are taught to look at the labels of the food we buy and look for additives, refined sugars, carbs, fats, all sort of other junk, but why don't we apply these same rules to the products we put ON our bodies too?


Have you ever read the ingredient list of your deodorant?
Doubtful, but you should. 

Here is the ingredient list from a popular men's deodorant:

Propylene glycol, water, sodium stearate, fragrance, sodium chloride, stearyl alcohol, FD&C blue no. 1, FD&C yellow no. 5

And here is the list for the same companies antiperspirant: 

Aluminum Zirconium Tetrachlorohydrex Gly, elaeis guineensis (palm) kernel oil, C12-15 alkyl benzoate, cyclomethicone, synthetic wax, PEG-8 distearate, hydrogenated soybean oil, fragrance, sodium starch octenyl succinate, silica, maltose, PVP, glyceryl stearate, cetrimonium chloride

Go grab your deodorant and I bet you see much of the same.

Do you know what these ingredients are or what they do?

Conventional antiperspirants work to clog the pores in your underarms and prevent you from sweating in this way, except for the fact that YOUR BODY IS SUPPOSED TO SWEAT!!! 

There are a mess of studies that show and a huge body of work that indicates putting aluminum zirconium tetrachlorohydrex gly on your skin is not good. 

Your pits need to be FREE! Let them breathe and do their jobs.
Oh yeah and your armpits are home to more than 20  lymph nodes that are part of your bodies larger lymphatic system which helps fight infections and keeps us healthy! Why wold you want to put all that crap right there next to your lymph nodes?

The deodorant we make has ingredients you can pronounce and that aid not hinder what our bodies do naturally!

Here is a list of what our deodorants contain:

• coconut oil
• shea butter
• beeswax (can also be made vegan by swapping for a plant based wax)
• baking soda (for sensitive skin we use arrowroot powder)
• cornstarch
• bentonite clay
• essential oils (various blends used for their amazing properties for your skin & body

That's it. No extra crap. You can pronounce everything. Oh yeah and it works!

For me, the longer I use it the less I actually sweat (which seems really weird) and the less I have to use it. 

If you have never tried natural deodorant you should give it a try - you may be surprised and your pits will thank you!
 

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Do you have a favorite natural deodorant? I would love to know what works for you...

Black soap for a better clean? You betcha!

Activated charcoal & bentonite clay soap - a natural way to get the grime out.

Charcoal has been used for centuries from the ancient Egyptians that used it as a wound poultice to water filtration by the Hindus. It seems contrary that using charcoal and clay can help get you clean, but both have amazing properties that you can take advantage of daily.

These amazing benefits are exactly why we use this combo in our clay ninja soap. All of our castile soaps have the exact same base...olive oil, coconut oil, canola oil, distilled water, lye, & stearic acid.  That's it. After that we may add in herbs or in this case clay & charcoal, essential oils, or fragrance oils. Done.

These soaps are amazing. They moisturize, they clean, they rinse clean with no residue, they make your skin happy, and don't do nasty things to the environment. 

Making soap is so cool...

If you have never tried a charcoal soap, maybe it is time that you did. You can find our clay ninja in our castile soap collection on our website here!