It’s been a little over a week now since I’ve been using the homemade deodorant, and I must say that I’m kinda impressed. Even though it does take some getting used to when it’s put on because it almost seems a little wet, I’ve gotten used to that. So this whole week I’ve been trying to put it to the test to see if it does help stop wetness and most importantly if you don’t stink when you sweat. How have I been putting it to the test? Well I’ve been using it when I’ve gone to the gym and even though my underarms haven’t stayed completely dry, they also weren’t like sopping rags or anything like that. I thought I had come to a conclusion that the homemade stuff does actually work after the last time I went running and literally stuck my nose in my underarms of my t shirt to see how bad they stunk. (You think I should maybe find a different hobby?) Well I couldn’t smell anything and I went proudly back to work to report that it does work! Then someone told me that you can’t actually smell your own sweat. What? That sounds crazy, so I Google’d it to see if maybe she was telling a lie or something and guess what? She was right! There are a lot of articles on how you can not smell yourself when others can smell you. Totally weird and maybe even a little scarey right? So tonight after I went running for about 45 minutes I asked Daryl if he would do a favor for me. He said ‘sure’.. I said whoa and to wait until he knew just exactly what I was going to ask. I wanted to know if he would help me out to find out if the homemade deodorant really worked and I needed someone to get close and give me a whiff. With some reluctance he did agree and said that it didn’t smell. Now either I wore off the stink on the way home or it actually worked. Who knows. But it’s enough research for me to finally pass on the recipe that I made back on January 10th. So here it is:
3 Tbsp coconut oil, 2 Tbsp shea butter, 3 Tbsp baking soda, 3 Tbsp cornstarch, and a couple of drops of vitamin E. Yup, that’s all that’s in it. Follow the blog with pictures on Jan 10th and you’ll have your own homemade deodorant sitting in your cupboard in no time. Now my container isn’t pretty and the girl at work put her’s in an empty deodorant container and that’s how I’d like to do my next batch. But for now? Well, my old mason jar will do just fine. 
And guess what? The best part of the whole recipe thing is that I found this one on the web site called…. “Treehugger”.