It’s been a good while since I last did a write up. Over the course of a few months, I have had a writer's block. I covered a lot of different topics from who we are to ingredients to products, and my wife Karen suggested I do a comparison between my body deodorant and a very well-known name brand.  

I find it interesting that this brand says their products are natural, when, if you read the ingredients, you will find out that it is farther from the truth. Let’s take my popular Lavender Tea Tree Body Deodorant. The ingredients are Shea Butter, Coconut Oil, Beeswax, Arrowroot Powder, Zinc Oxide and essential oils of Lavender and Tea Tree. Each ingredient is easy to read and research, however, the competitors, not so much.  

First off, the ingredients listed are so small that you can’t read the words. Neopentyl Glycol, Diheptanoate, PPG-15 Stearyl Ether, Zea Mays (Corn Starch), Ozokerite, Stearyl Alcohol, Isododecane, Isopentyldiol, Maranta Arundinacea Root Powder, Lauryl Laurate, Mandelic Acid, Sorbitan Oleate, Fragrance, Silca, Panethenol, Caffeine, and Ethylhexylglcerin. This company promotes this product as being vegan, which, there are just a couple ingredients to justify that, but much of the product is chemical based.  

Absolute yikes. That would take anyone a good hour looking up what most of those words mean and, unfortunately, there is nothing natural about their product. Furthermore, the warning on their label is long winded too. Do not use on broken or irritated skin, Sunburn alert, this product contains Alpha Hydroxy Acid that may increase your skin’s sensitivity to the sun and particularly the possibility of sunburn, use a sunscreen, wear protective clothing and limit sun exposure while using this product. That warning label should tell most that what they are using is chemical based. With my product, a person really doesn’t have to do much work in figuring out if my ingredients are bad for them. Another pro to my body deodorant is that you can use it on irritated skin, and one doesn’t have to worry about exposure to the sun being bad for you.  

Back to the competitor, their container is plastic, with no mention of it being BPA free and that means the chemicals in the production of this container seep into the ingredients and then go on your skin. They offer their product for $14.00 for 2.6 oz.  

My container is recycled cardboard, using recycled paper labels, with a price of $8.00 for 3 oz.