Wellness

[sidsmom]

Make your own! Coconut oil, cornstarch, tea tree oil....boom. Easy, peasy!! Been wearing homemade deodorant for 3 years...no smell!

[BExplorer]

Arm & Hammer Essentials. It is available at (my local) Wal-Mart for $1.97.

[Tyak]

Ridiculous statement that it causes breast cancer.

[aplteacher]

would love the receipe for making my own

[Jersey Born]

On 1/11/2015 Tyak said:

Ridiculous statement that it causes breast cancer.

Not really…. It just might, at least in some cases.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2797685/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16045991

Aluminum, apparently does have a negative effect on breast tissue. The first article states,"Clinical studies in 2004 reported increased levels of genomic instability in outer regions of the breast in histologically normal tissue [24], which was suggested to result from exposure to genotoxic chemicals in that region [25]. Instability of the genome is an important contributor to genetic changes that drive carcinogenic processes, and in accordance with the cancer field theory could provide a milieu where genetically altered cells would be more susceptible to the development of cancer [5,24,25]."

And also that, "The active antiperspirant agents are aluminium salts - and aluminium has a known genotoxic profile [26,27], and aluminium chlorhydrate has been shown active in the Comet assay [28]. Use of these salts in cosmetics relies on the inability of the antiperspirant complexes to be absorbed [8]. Dermal absorption of aluminium from topically applied antiperspirant aluminium chlorhydrate, however, has been demonstrated through intact human skin of the underarm [29], and aluminium was measured in human breast tissue at greater levels in outer quadrants than in inner quadrants [30]. Clinical consequences arising from absorbed antiperspirant salts were described in a case study in 2004 reporting adverse bone pain and fatigue associated with toxic blood levels of aluminium, both of which disappeared after discontinuing antiperspirant use [31].

[Anniecamp]

I use one by Arm & Hammer, that a poster above mentioned. I have used it for years, and it works well. Read the ingredients list carefully though, so you get the correct one.

[Shopping momma]

I make my own.. Simple and I know whats in it.

http://thehumbledhomemaker.com/2012/10/natural-homemade-deodorant-recipe.html#_a5y_p=1816399

[Black Cat Back]

What about antiperspirants? Don't they help you from sweating out and deodorants help keep odors at bay?

Or are you okay with just the deodorant alone?

[LilacTree]

Tom's of Maine. I have been using it for years and it is aluminum-free. I never perspire and really can go without deodorant. That isn't exactly healthy (to never sweat) but that's me. I never had hot flashes during menopause either.