Truly's All Natural Deodorant Review

I recently got to review a new all natural deodorant from Truly's All Natural.  I hate not wearing deodorant and getting stinky, but I also refuse to wear the name brand deodorants that have aluminum, anhydrous and all kinds of other junk in them(you can read a post I did about this called It Has What in It for more information).

Nice neat packaging.

The deodorant.

Now I will have to say that I am not a huge fan of dipping into things and rubbing them on.  I prefer to be lazy and have it in a stick or roll on so that I don't have to wash my hands afterwards.  But this stuff does work so the pros outweigh the only con I could find with it!

It is primarily made of coconut oil which is a natural antimicrobial so helps to kill the things that help make you smell, whether bacteria, fungus, or virus.  Really, coconut oil is almost a miracle drug for our bodies.  The other ingredients are powdered sugar(sugar and cornstarch), baking soda, and beeswax.  According to their website the powdered sugar combines with your perspiration(nice way of saying sweat) to create a hyper osmotic solution which prevents odor causing bacterial growth.  Below is an excerpt explaining how this works:

"When sugar or honey is packed on top of and inside of an open wound, it dissolves in the fluid exuding from the wound, creating a hyperosmotic, or highly concentrated, medium. Bacteria cannot live in a hyperosmotic environment any more than a goldfish could survive in the Great Salt Lake. Scientists have tested the viability of many types of bacteria, including Klebsiella, Shigella, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pyogenes, and none of them have been able to survive in a honey or sugar solution."

I don't know that I'll be pouring honey in any wounds after reading that, but I will say that this natural deodorant is perfect for those of us who want to know what we put in or on our bodies.  It also works great for sensitive skin because there is nothing in it that is an irritant or would cause an allergic reaction.  Well, unless you're allergic to coconut oil which would be a horrible thing!

Make sure to check out Truly's facebook page as well and watch for any amazing deals or news they might have!  I'm hoping one of these days they'll add some essential oils to their deodorant for the smell factor.  I love my essential oils!

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It Has What In It????!!!!

If you go to the grocery store and start looking at deodorants, what do you expect to find as the main ingredients?

Do you expect to see a fragrance?  A wonderful synthetic fragrance that contains alcohol and who knows what else all those weird scientific words are!  That one I do expect in  most deodorants; however, I only wear ones that contain a natural scent normally from essential oils.

I can tell you one thing I did not expect to find.  As I was reading the label on a deodorant labeled "natural mineral" I was shocked and greatly dismayed to find ANHYDROUS as the second active ingredient.  Yeap you read that correctly anhydrous!  AHHHH!  Really women are putting that on their armpits?  Wow!

I can't tell you how horrible that made me feel.  They were labeling this product as natural and a mineral deodorant that is better for you, and yet here on the label is a deadly chemical!

Now what is normally the first active ingredient in most store deodorants?  Come on what do you think?  It's aluminum.  Yeap great old aluminum.  Did you know that some time ago they linked aluminum to Alzheimer's?  Studies show an increased amount of aluminum in the brain of victims of Alzheimer's via autopsy.  Aluminum is also thought to increase your breast cancer rates.

So tell me again why we as women constantly put that stuff on our arm pits?  Truly?  Okay so yeah I don't.  I use only deodorants that do not contain fake chemicals or harmful ingredients.  These normally have oils(coconut mainly) with beeswax and some essential oils.  I have some deodorant that is a baking soda base with peppermint oils that works wonderfully for when I'm going to be very active and sweating.

My deodorant ingredient list.  This is so much better than  aluminum being #1.

I'm not going to do name drops here on deodorants that I use.  You'll see some that I use in reviews I'm sure in the future as I'm working on getting some.  However, I'm also not putting out names of the name brands I refuse to use!  And yes I do refuse to use them.  I was given some the other day and they went in the trash.  I don't even pass them on.  It's all about what's important to us and what we choose to do about it.

Okay off my soapbox for now.  Enjoy your day and maybe please take the time to read the labels on your favorite deodorant and also don't forget about body care products(that's a whole nother post waiting to happen).

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