Homemade Deodorant

the beautiful beeswax brick!

Recently, after a drive to the country, we brought home a golden brick.....it smelled delicious. Ok, it was a beeswax brick. And it was sitting on my desk for a while, when I thought of making some homemade deodorant with it. I looked up some recipes online, cleaned out an old store-bought deodorant stick case, and voilà!

it's nice to have an old stick case on hand

Ingredients
3 tbsp of beeswax
2 tbsp of coconut oil
approx 15 drops of lavender essential oil
approx 1/2 tsp corn starch (absorbs moisture; used in powdered form deodorants)
approx 1/2 tsp baking soda (helps with stink; used in powdered form deodorants)
approx 1/2 tsp powdered rosemary (from our plant)
approx 1/2 to 1 tsp of aloe vera juice (from our plant)

Directions
Melt the beeswax in double boiler. Add Coconut Oil. Remove from heat and add the remaining ingredients. Pour into a mold or container (you do not have to grease it) and leave for the mixture to cool down and harden, to gain shape!

my ingredients (and the coffee grinder for the rosemary)

I'm not sure how much of the rosemary, baking soda, corn starch, and aloe vera juice, floated to the top or bottom before the wax mixture finished hardening, but oh well. :)





I would suggest perhaps using a bit more coconut oil so it rubs off better. Also, you probably want to put 50 drops or more of essential oil to make it more effective.

Here is the link for more homemade deodorant recipes along with the one which inspired me.

Note from mama:  This post was written by our young adolescent daughter.  She has been blessed with great insight from our Heavenly Father on how to make things that would be more beneficial for our bodies.

Have fun trying! ~ Leah

Do you make your own deodorant? If so what do you use? Please share. 

This recipe was shared with
Raising Homemakers
Simple Lives