Natural deodorants - nice idea but just don't cut it?

I use The Natural Deodorant Co. Not got a bad word to say about it, it’s great

I swapped during first lockdown. I STANK for about 3 weeks. Then it miraculously changed and I barely smell.
I do smell if I work out then stay in my kit all day but I would have using traditional deodorants as well.

It's to do with the biome of the arm pit. We smell because we produce bacteria and when that comes in contact with the proteins in apocrine sweat it causes the foul smell.

Traditional deodorants mess up the biome so we produce more bacteria. Once things are balanced by stopping use of the blocking deodorants there is much less bacteria to interact with the proteins so we smell way less.

Interesting fact most Koreans and Japanese don't produce the proteins in their apocrine sweat so they don't have BO

I've used a mineral stick for about 20 years. Never let me town and it's chemical free.

I don’t like Fussy. Am going to return to Mitchum once I’ve finished up this tube. I don’t smell with it on (though it’s less effective than the usual stuff)but it doesn’t stop me sweating and I dislike occasionally getting damp armpits. I would use it under a silk or fine blouse that might cling.

I think I'll try this. I tried some natural deodorants years ago but wasn't impressed with them. I like a lot of The Ordinary products.

I'd say I'm an average to more sweaty person and I use the tubs from Natural Deodorant Company. I tried Wild for about 6 months and didn't get on with theirs at all, took about 3 weeks for my body to adapt to the Natural Deodorant Company creams/balms and since then my underarms have stayed mostly dry and smelling fine for over a year now. They don't really work well for controlling sweat while exercising, but I've not found anything capable of that.
A major plus for Natural Deodorant is that my arm pits have never looked or felt so nice since I was a kid. Smooth and soft and no dark "shadow" of irritation at all.

I hated wild and salt of the earth but love fussy, like PP have got DP on it too and both teen DDs. My brother swears by pitrock, seems you need to find the one that works for you.

Which Wild scent are you using? I have seen quite a few people say that the Fresh Cotton and Sea Salt is better than the others.

I have been using it and it's brilliant. I've never had a natural deodorant work for me before. I used to use Mitchum but I think that Wild (at least the cotton/sea salt one) is better!

It might be worth getting a refill with that scent before ditching Wild if you have been using a different scent.

In my experience you have to a) give it weeks and weeks for your body to adjust and b) not care about the moisture, as no deodorant will stop the wet patches.

I can’t do wet underarms, and I can’t do 5 odd weeks of smelling myself (although I did try in my 20’s, a long time ago and more recently over covid although I only lasted a week then) and tbh even after that you do smell after a few hours anyway. Depends on what you can put up with!

As an aside I can’t stand smelling people on the tube who have clearly gone natural. I’m not talking about the b.o. small of the great unwashed from 20 years ago, this is the natural-deodorant-has-warn-off smell. Makes me gag.

They're not though. As well as scent, they'll have other ingredients to combat odour, such as bicarb or other things that kill bacteria that cause odour.

I really like Wild but I'm an overly sweaty person anyway. I did use some Nivea anti-perspirent spray recently and it made me absolutely reek! Not exactly of BO, but just a really unpleasant smell. Not sure if my body's got used to natural deodorant now and reacted badly to anti-perspirent or what.

Last time I used natural deodorants I was mortified when, in a bar with colleagues, I raised my arms and got a good old waft of BO. DP uses bionsen and I use it from time to time mine has run out. Works ok initially, but not for a full day.

Wild works for me. I seem to sweat less than I used to before starting to use it.

Bionsen didn't work for me either, but Fussy does.

I love fussy, even got my husband to convert!

I’ve tried SO many non organic deodorant's/ anti perspirants etc and the only thing thats really worked for me, not to be smelly AT ALL, was Fussy. I gave it ago as it has a bacteria in it that basically eats the stuff that smells in sweat, its a bloody god send, can’r recommend it enough. I haven’t tried any other natural deoderants to be fair, I was using triple dry before which worked pretty well, but you just know its not good for you, (common sense wise,) just clogging up your glands, so im happy I found a genuine alternative.

Same. I want to feel dry, and none of the natural deodorants help with that.

Deodorant is fundamentally a perfume. If you aren't a stinky person they'll work. If you are, they won't.

I've tried numerous and they do absolutely nothing for me. Antiperspirant for the win!

I don't think they work. I'm not a very sweaty person and normally one spray of antiperspirant sorts keeps me covered all day, but I tried a natural one and within an hour I smelt faintly of body odour and was sticky.

I so wanted to like AKT... I even feel slightly worse about myself than before, to think I'm sweatier and stinkier than actual West End dancers apparently.

Another Fussy fan here.

I tried Wild but didn't like it.

I have used Pitrok for years though and that works fine for me.

Sadly I don't find natural deodorants any good whatsoever. Lovely idea, but it's good old Mitchum for me!

I use a crystal deodorant. Each on least a few years. Boring but effective.

I use one from Bloomtown. It works really well and smells great.

I like Fussy, the only (manageable) downside is that it leaves waxy marks on the inside of clothes and my bra which needs to be washed on a decent cycle to remove. I like the product though and range of scents is good.