The Joy of Making Your Own Deodorant: A DIY Guide with Maria Antoinette

As we embark on this DIY journey, it's essential to understand why making your own deodorant is an excellent idea. "Why would you make your own deodorant?" Maria asks, "Because it's awesome and you know exactly what's in it!" This is a testament to the power of natural ingredients and the ability to control what goes into our personal care products.

To get started, we'll need a few basic supplies. A double boiler, either a stove or a heat source, will be our primary tool for melting and mixing the ingredients. We'll also require containers to hold our deodorant, as well as various natural ingredients such as diatomaceous earth, arrowroot, organic coconut oil, shea butter, beeswax, and fractionated coconut oil. Vitamin E oil and essential oils are optional but offer additional benefits for skin health.

The first step is to heat the double boiler, whether using a stove or a dedicated boiler. If you don't have access to a double boiler, it's wise to use low heat instead of high heat to prevent burning or scorching the ingredients. Now that our boiler is ready, we can begin adding our fractionated coconut oil. This ingredient provides numerous benefits for skin health, including hydration and antimicrobial properties. By adding this oil first, we'll ensure a smooth consistency to our deodorant mixture.

Next, Maria adds beeswax to the mixture. Beeswax serves as a natural thickening agent, providing structure and stability to the deodorant. Its benefits extend beyond physical texture, too, as it helps maintain skin health by preventing dryness and irritation. Shea butter is another crucial ingredient in our recipe. This natural anti-inflammatory offers soothing properties for sensitive skin, ensuring a smooth and comfortable application experience.

Organic coconut oil rounds out the core ingredients of our deodorant. Rich in omega-3 fatty acids, it provides essential nutrients for healthy skin. The combination of these three ingredients sets the foundation for a well-balanced deodorant formula that prioritizes skin health while providing effective odor protection.

Now that we have our core ingredients melted and mixed, Maria turns off the heat source and adds dry ingredients to the mixture. Arrowroot powder serves as an excellent substitute for cornstarch, offering gentle absorption properties without irritating the skin. Diatomaceous earth is another natural ingredient added to our recipe, which helps maintain skin pH balance by preventing irritation.

The final step involves adding vitamin E oil to enhance the overall health benefits of our deodorant. This powerful antioxidant supports healthy skin and provides additional protection against environmental stressors. Essential oils are optional but can greatly elevate the effectiveness of our homemade deodorant. Maria chooses a unique combination of essential oils, including patchouli, orange, and vanilla.

Patchouli oil brings a natural musk scent to the mixture, providing a pleasant aroma that many find appealing. Orange oil adds a citrusy background note, complementing the rich fragrance of patchouli. Vanilla oil completes the blend, offering a warm and comforting scent with added benefits from jojoba oil. As we mix these essential oils into our deodorant mixture, we notice it thickening to the desired consistency.

Before applying our homemade deodorant, Maria takes a moment to ensure that all air bubbles have been removed from the mixture. By doing so, she prevents leakage and ensures a smooth application experience. With our deodorant ready, we can now fill containers and apply it as needed. Whether you're looking for a natural alternative to commercial deodorants or simply want more control over your personal care products, making your own deodorant is an excellent option.

In conclusion, Maria's DIY deodorant recipe showcases the power of natural ingredients in creating effective and healthy personal care products. By understanding the benefits of each ingredient and combining them in a thoughtful way, we can create a customized deodorant that meets our individual needs. Whether you're new to DIY skincare or an experienced enthusiast, this guide provides a solid foundation for exploring the world of homemade cosmetics.

As Maria concludes her video, she invites viewers to share their own favorite ingredients and essential oil combinations used in their DIY deodorant recipes. By engaging with one another, we can learn from each other's experiences and create a community that values natural skincare and self-care. So go ahead, give this recipe a try, and experience the joy of making your own deodorant!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey it's Maria Antoinette and I'm back with yet another DIY today is all about our DIY deodorant why would you make your own deodorant you say because it's awesome and you know exactly what's in it so let's get started you're gonna need a double boiler of course a stove or something to heat the boiler up with something to hold your deodorant in diatomaceous earth arrowroot organic coconut oil shea butter beeswax and fractionated coconut oil you'll also need vitamin E in essential oils or optional our first step is going to get our double boiler on if you're not using a double boiler it's wise to put the heat on low but if you are and you have your water in there you can go ahead and crank it up not too high we'll go meet you my first ingredient that I'm going to add in is the fractionated coconut oil this is going to give so many benefits to your armpits we're talking about armpits but it's beneficial this is also going to make sure that the mixture doesn't get it too hard next we're gonna add our beeswax beeswax is also great for the consistency of the deodorant we also have our shea butter of course we have shea butter this is a natural anti press break and it's great for your skin as far as smoothing it making sure that it stays soft because we still want beautiful pits now for our organic coconut oil organic coconut oil is great because it has your Omega threes in it it has a lot of other components in it that is just great for the skin so right now we're gonna let this melt down we're gonna stir that up a bit and let it do its thing alright I don't know about you but I'm gonna go grab a snack while this milks down all right everything's melted now it's time to turn off the heat and add in our dry ingredients my first thing I'm gonna add in is my arrowroot I'm gonna just whisk that in arrowroot is great for absorbing moisture and it replaces cornstarch so much more gentle for your skin next I'm going to take my diet to nations earth this is also a great substitute for baking soda this is a food grade diatomaceous earth this is going to bring your skin back to its pH balance which is ideal and you won't have any of that irritation that baking soda because sometimes give you we're just gonna whisk that all in but that all makes them we're going to add in our half a teaspoon of vitamin E oil and our essential oils we all know the incredible benefits of vitamin E oil it's in all of our cosmetics it's something that is just amazing for our skin now this next step is completely optional you can put in your essential oils or you can go without if you like to have a scent List deodorant I'm doing one of my favorite combinations of essential oils and I'm going to talk you through why I'm using each one of them so I'm going to do one drop of patchouli one drop will go a long way patchouli is a very strong scent but it's so beautiful it's a natural musk scent so it's going to give you a nice Pleasant aroma from under your armpits I know that sounds crazy but it works I promise we're gonna do two drops of orange you always want to add something with a citrus background it's also a great complementary fragrance to the patchouli and last but not least we're gonna add in our vanilla now this vanilla has jojoba oil in it as well so we're going to need a lot more drops of this perfect I wish you guys could smell this it smells amazing we're just gonna mix that all up you'll notice that it's starting to thicken right now you're gonna want it to be a little bit thicker than this you want it to be able to stay inside of the deodorant container and not leak out the bottom so we're gonna let that sit to the side for a little while longer let it cool it a little we'll be right back alright guys we were nice and thick and we are ready to go into the deodorant containers all right so I'm tapping it on the counter to make sure that I remove all air bubbles out of there I'm just gonna simply put the lids on let this dry and I'm gonna be fresh for the rest of my days hopefully you guys enjoyed this DIY if you make your own DIY deodorant I would love to hear some of the ingredients in or your essential oil combination that you use in it so definitely comment below give this video a thumbs up and if you make it we want to see so hashtag us on social media at HGTV handmade and I will see you in the next video bye\n"