Gaia Essentials “Effective Botanicals” Natural Deodorant & Recipe Ingredients

This wonderful natural deodorant is completed. It will available at Gaia Essentials after another week of testing. (making it a full month with various testers) It is a solid, yet it glides on smoothly. The cornstarch blots effectively with no trace of residue.  With the blend of pure essential oils known to possess anti-bacterial properties that keep odor away, they also give it a light refreshing aroma.  

The correct percentages of my ingredients took alot of researching and experimenting so I will keep those close to my heart. However I will list them out, as I believe in full disclosure of all my products for consumer information and cautions with allergies.

100% Soy Wax, Grape Seed Oil, Macadamia Oil, Aloe Vera butter, Pure Elemi, Bergamot, Petigrain, Lemon, Coriander, Lavender & Basil Essential oils. Cornstarch & Baking Soda. (revised 4/23/08 )

You will find no aluminum or parabens.

My Handmade Natural Deodorant Recipe Experiments

Sure I could go into why I am attempting this but there is so much pro/con information floating about, I need not add to it.  I simply want an all Natural Deodorant made with pure Essential oils and no chemicals that works.   And the fact you are reading this tells me you are familiar with why we seek such an product.

This will not be an anti-perspirant.  That is something we really should not use with good reasons…its blocks the release of toxins and messes up your natural cooling system.  We are meant to perspire.

 However our offensive odors need to be tamed.   There lays my goal.

Now what causes odor?  Bacteria certainly, as well as what we eat. Ahh the good old diet again.  We are what we eat, and there is no one that can say differently.  Take the garlic test if you will: eat a clove or two and for about 24 hours you will give off the aroma of it.   We all know what I am taking about really, with many kinds of foods/beverages we seep them or the smell of them after consumption.

Well what we eat I cannot control.  But I have been researching the benefits of the Pure Essential Oils I plan to use in my recipe for their known anti-bacterial properties and refreshing aromas.  There lays the key, finding a blend that does not smell overly medicinal, but fresh and clean, and still gets the job done.

Next the vehicle… in my research I have noted reactions to using some thickening waxes over others and I will be sticking with a 100% pure vegetable base.  As well as blending in a trans-dermal oil blend for soothing delivery to the  armpit pores.  I will add pure cornstarch to help blot.

I have my ingredients (having tried the blend personally) and am in the process of making the stick solid yet smooth on the glide.  My first batch was a bit too creamy and would do well as a roll-on, but I prefer a stick, so it now sits cooling.

This is a work in progress, much the same when I was creating my Herbal Facial Cream and my Herbal Healing Salve but it will be wonderful.

 More to come as I progress.

Update: Complete and a success! Read more or visit Gaia Essentials Website.

Related links of progress:
http://gaiaessentials.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/a-pure-botanical-natural-deodorants-step-in-creation/
http://gaiaessentials.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/gaia-essentials-effective-botanicals-natural-deodorant-recipe-ingredients/
http://gaiaessentials.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/half-year-mark-already/