Homemade Deodorants

It's both natural and healthy to sweat or perspire if you sit in the heat of the sun, do exercise in the gym and are engaged in giving a presentation at work. But sometimes excessive perspiration may embarrass you because of the odor produced from it. This unpleasant smell results when the sweat comes into contact with bacteria on your skin. Sweat itself is an odorless liquid.

Normally, a healthy human produces about 1-2 pints of sweat a day. The most effective method to prevent odor coming out from the body is to use deodorant. Frequent use of chemically based commercial products may block the sweat glands and inhibit their natural temperature regulation. While homemade deodorant recipe does not carry any such side effect and are best solution to get rid of offensive unpleasant smell coming out from the sweating body.

People all over the world normally spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year on antiperspirants and deodorants. But this problem could easily be tackled at home by preparing homemade deodorant using natural ingredients.

Following are some methods to keep the offensive odor at bay:

Stick Homemade Deodorant

Ingredients

2 ounces of baking soda

Vodka about one ounce

Beeswax- 8 ounces

Cornstarch—4 ounces

Liquid chorophyll—1 ounce

Distilled water—about 2 ounces

10-15 drops of rose, honeysuckle, coriander oil according to the choice

Method: Mix all the ingredients (except chlorophyll and wax) in a large bowl and stir well. Now melt beeswax in a double boiler over a low flame. Then add chlorophyll and wax to the mixture and blend it well. Leave it for cooling. Then add essential oils and liquid chlorophyll. Now pour this mixture into a mold and leave it for solid. Remove the prepared deodorants from mold and keep in dry cool place. This is one of the useful homemade deodrants.

No-Sweat Tea

Ingredients

One full teaspoon of dried hops

One full teaspoon of fresh rose petals

Stinging nettle, one teaspoon

Four full cups of hot water

Dried leaves of strawberry, one teaspoon

Dried leaves of sage, three full tablespoons

Fresh leaves of walnut-one full teaspoon

Method: Mix all the ingredients well and steep them for about an hour. Then strain the tea and take with honey.

Cream Deodorant

Ingredients

Glycerin one full tablespoon

Cocoa butter - half ounce

Rosewater one full tablespoon

Beeswax - half ounce

Method: First melt the beeswax and cocoa butter in a large boiler. Then add rosewater and glycerin to the mixture followed by few drops of essential oils such as eucalyptus, lemon, sage, calendula, lavender, coriander, thyme or rosemary. If cream is separated, stir the deodorants before using it. This is one of the good homemade natural deodorant.

Herbal Deodorant Powder

Ingredients

One part of powder of white oak bark as an astringent

Two parts of powder of sandalwood for anti-microbial and fragrance properties

One part of powder of lovage root

Method: Blend all the powders well in a food processor and then put the mixture into a dry or clean iron skillet. Before using it pat bags on the feet and under arms. This is one of the useful homemade deodrant.

Deodorizing Foot Bath

Ingredients

5-6 tablespoon of Epson salts

White vinegar half cup

Warm water about one gallon

Method: Mix Epson salts and white vinegar in warm water and soak the dirty feet in the solution to get rid of sweat and bad smell.

Sage Deodorizing Foot Powder

Ingredients

Sage essential oil—2 or 3 drops

Baking powder— One full tablespoon

Method: Blend both the ingredients in a bowl and shake well. Let it dry for a couple of minutes. This is the effective natural deodrant.

Basic recipe for daily use

Ingredients

2 teaspoon zinc-oxide powder

2/3 cup witch-hazel extract

2 tablespoon Aloe Vera juice

30-40 drops essential oil(s)

30 drops rose-geranium essential oil

Method: Mix zinc-oxide powder and witch-hazel extract in a small bowl and stir well. Then add the Aloe Vera juice and rose-geranium essential oil(s) to the mixture. Put the mixture in a bottle and use it inhibits the proliferation of odor-causing bacteria. This is one of the effectivenatural deodorant recipes.

For Sensitive Skin

Ingredients

30 drops calendula extract

10 drops lavender essential oil

2 teaspoon zinc-oxide powder

2/3 cup witch-hazel extract

2 tablespoon Aloe Vera juice

30-40 drops essential oil(s)

Method: Calendula and lavender oils are although mild but potent fighters of bacteria and inhibit odor. Add both the oils to the mixture of zinc-oxide powder, witch-hazel extract and Aloe Vera juice and blend it well. Store this deodorant in a bottle and use it when required.