What is a deodorant cream?
A deodorant cream is a deodorant in cream form that you apply with your fingers. Ours is made from baking soda, potato and corn starch, shea butter, sunflower oil and candelilla wax; the Lemon also contains essential oils of bergamot and lemongrass. It contains no aluminium salts. Like any deodorant, it works on odour, not on the amount of sweat: you keep sweating, the baking soda binds odours and the starch absorbs some moisture.
What does the deodorant cream smell like?
The Sensitive deodorant cream smells only faintly of its ingredients, mainly shea butter; no fragrance is added. The Lemon deodorant cream smells fresh and citrusy of bergamot and lemongrass.
Why so few ingredients?
Because the cream contains no water. Without water it needs neither an emulsifier nor a preservative, and every ingredient has a job: baking soda for odour, starch for moisture, shea butter, oil and wax for the spreadable base. Apart from the baking soda, all ingredients come from certified organic farming.
Why is the cream sometimes crumbly?
Baking soda and starch are fine powders that do not dissolve in fat. When the cream is cold, it can therefore feel grainy or crumbly. Take a pea-sized amount and hold it briefly between your fingers until it softens; then it spreads smoothly. At room temperature it is softer than in a cold bathroom.
How does the skin react to it?
Baking soda is slightly alkaline, while the skin in the armpit is slightly acidic. Some skin therefore turns red or itches, especially right after shaving or when too much cream is applied. What helps: use only a little, apply only to dry skin that has not just been shaved, and take a few days off if redness appears. If the reaction persists, stop using the cream. More in Baking soda in deodorant.
How to apply it
A pea-sized amount per armpit is enough. Apply to washed, completely dry skin and let it absorb briefly before getting dressed. In detail: How to apply deodorant cream · Switching to an aluminium-free deodorant · Deodorant or antiperspirant? · Avoiding grease stains on clothes
Sensitive or Lemon?
Both share the same base of starch, shea butter, baking soda, sunflower oil and candelilla wax. The Lemon also contains essential oils of bergamot and lemongrass and therefore fragrance components such as limonene, linalool and citral, which are listed individually in the ingredients. The Sensitive has no added fragrance. If you react to fragrances, choose the Sensitive.
How long does a jar last?
The 50 g jar lasts for about 120 applications. A pea-sized amount per armpit is enough; more does not work better but stays on the skin and ends up on your clothes.
The ingredients in detail
Baking soda · Potato starch · Corn starch · Shea butter · Sunflower oil · Candelilla wax · Bergamot · Lemongrass
