The Deodorant Cream

A few days ago I was on Facebook ranting about the lack of deodorant for breasts. If you are a chesty woman you know that once summer hits the cleavage starts to offend. Don't pretend you haven't felt the sweat or caught a whiff of something funky. It's ok, your secret is safe with me. I've tried regular deodorant on that area before with disasters results, rash and pain you don't want to feel in that area. On Facebook my cousin linked a costly lotion deodorant and I got curious about how prevalent these cream deodorants are in the world. I found two websites with the same recipe. Angry Chicken and Hub Pages' Homemade Cream Deodorant.

So I went about finding all my ingredients. I only had to go two places, the local Walmart, and a natural food store. Walmart had the Cornstarch for $1.00, Baking Soda for $.52, Essential Oil for $1.89, Vitamin E for $4.44 and I got some eye droppers to dole out the oil for $1.49. So $9.34 plus applicable taxes. At the local natural food center i found Cocoa Butter for $8.30 and Shea Butter for $9.25 for a total spending of $26.89. Kinda steep I know. Hang in there with me. Using the quantities given it makes 4 oz of deodorant that will last 2-3 months, not accounting for if you freeze it or not, and you only used 1/4 of what you bought. So if it is too much to stomach go in on it with a friend and make a few batches so you can play around with scents too! So to my experiment....

The ingredients:

Everything you will need, minus the baking powder oops!

3 Tablespoons Cocoa Butter
2 Tablespoons Shea Butter - I accidentally put in 3
3 Tablespoons Baking Soda
2 Tablespoons Cornstarch
2 Vitamin E Capsules
16 drops of Essential Oils

First you want to combine all the non liquid ingredients, the Cocoa Butter, Shea butter, Baking Soda, and Cornstarch in your microwave safe bowl and nuke it for about 30 seconds at a time. I defiantly found that the difficulty of the cocoa butter was and issue i tried warming it alone just to get it out of the jar and then stabbing it with a spoon to break it up which helped when mixing everything together, it melted faster in little chunks.

 Stab that Cocoa!

 Once everybody is mixed and co-mingling happily stir in those oils. Puncture the capsules safely and squeeze them into your mix, I used a toothpick. Once you are satisfied with the smell and mixture pour it into any small bottles you might have lying around from other lotions, re-purpose those jars!

I found two jars I haven't known what to do with just sitting in my room.

Let everything set up in the fridge for an hour or so and check out how quick it melts at the human touch. It slides on just like a lotion and you can really put it anywhere. You know exactly what is in it so if you have allergies or sensitivities to anything you know if it will hurt or not. 

I haven't found that the excess Shea Butter has hurt it much, it's probably a little softer and easier to melt but it will reset at room temperature. So far I am super happy.