Freshen Your Underarms With Coconut

Are you looking for a better way to improve your underarm odor than harsh chemicals from store-bought deodorant? If so, you might want to give coconut oil a try. Take a look at these different ways to create a coconut oil deodorant bar that is completely natural and safe to use.

Create a Coconut and Bentonite Clay Deodorant

The first way you can freshen your underarms using coconut is by making your own deodorant bar. This will not only use coconut oil, but also cocoa butter, beeswax, arrowroot powder, and bentonite clay powder. You should combine the clay and arrowroot together in a bowl, then heat up your coconut oil, beeswax, and cocoa butter on the stove. Remove it when the beeswax is melted, then pour the hot mixture into the bowl with the powder mixture. Take a mold sheet and pour it into the molds, letting it sit in the fridge until it is solid.

Make a Coconut and Cornstarch Deodorant

This next underarm deodorant also uses coconut oil, but some other ingredients as well. These other ingredients help to keep it in more of a solid form, and will really help to keep away odor from under your arms, and keep them dry at the same time. Ingredients like baking soda and cornstarch are used to keep them dry. The coconut oil moisturizes the underarms, while also helping to mask some of the odor you might get throughout the day. You can also add in some essential oils for added scent, such as lavender or rose. Keep in mind when making the deodorant, you will need to liquefy the coconut oil first so that you can easily mix everything together.

Try an Arrowroot Coconut Deodorant

This last underarm deodorant recipe works just as well as the other ideas here, but use some variation on the ingredients. You are instead going to use arrowroot, which can be great for better odor coverage and dryness. If you can’t get your hands on arrowroot, you can always use tapioca as an alternative. Add to that some coconut oil, baking soda for dryness and odor coverage, then some essential oils like lavender and lime. These scents combined with the other ingredients being used will work really well for the natural deodorant.

These might not replace your regular deodorant all the time, but it is good to use them on days when you run out of your regular deodorant or just to try something a little more natural.
