Green showering

Bromley_2

I use Pitrok deoderant every day and it has lasted over 5years and its only half used. Bought it at Boots for £6 but not easy to get hold of. It is supposed to be a lot healthier with no parabens and uses less packaging-Oh and it works!

christymm

please be aware that most of the above have chemicals in them,pure nuff stuff is what it says pure and is very good.

newleaf

I found this UK stockist of Dr Bronners Magic Soap, and Ecosapia amongst other things! It's under 'bodycare'.

Miss_Behaving

Bromley wrote:

I use Pitrok deoderant every day and it has lasted over 5years and its only half used. Bought it at Boots for £6 but not easy to get hold of. It is supposed to be a lot healthier with no parabens and uses less packaging-Oh and it works!

Asda stock these, I think they're £4.95. I agree they definitely work!

Steel_2

I use one of those crystal deodorants but I only realised the other day that the crystal has aluminium in it. Defeats the purpose of avoiding conventional deodorants with aluminium so it looks like I'm back to the drawing board on that one. Trouble is a lot of stuff on the market that says 'natural' still has bad ingredients in it. You really have to hunt hard for the ingredient information.

My mother stopped using all deodorants after she had breast cancer and for years has simply washed a couple of times a day, perhaps a little more in summer, and I've never noticed any strange niff from her direction. I think she pats a bit of cornstarch under her arms as well to absorb any perspiration. Might give that a go and ask my husband to give me a good sniff at random times during the day to test the approach.

jellycat40

I have tried to use all these so called deodorants that are environmentally friendly and frankly I have yet to find one that works. I do sometimes use the ones in lush but they make me have burns under my arms so this is not really any good for more than a day or two. I do sometimes use the cornstarch approach but it just dries things up for an hour or two no deo action at all.

Louise

Seakay

Steel wrote:

Original Source don't test their products on animals or use any ingredients that are tested on animals from whoever they source them from. From that repsect they're sound.

However, their products, like thousands of others, still contain nasty chemcals like parabens, which are hormone disruptors, so from that angle no they're not environmentally sound.

I've been reading a fantastic book by Ecologist writer Pat Thomas called "What's in this stuff" (and managed to find it new in a charity shop for £1 so well chuffed!!!). Very shocking. It's prompted me to cut back everything I use that has chemicals in and thoroughly consider the products that I do use from every angle before buying.

Original Source are listed as "not endorsed" by the Compassionate Shopping Guide. This means that the company is NOT regarded as cruelty free.

Seakay

jellycat40 wrote:

I have tried to use all these so called deodorants that are environmentally friendly and frankly I have yet to find one that works. I do sometimes use the ones in lush but they make me have burns under my arms so this is not really any good for more than a day or two. I do sometimes use the cornstarch approach but it just dries things up for an hour or two no deo action at all.

Louise

My sister is a big fan of the aromacreme from Lush - have you tried that one? Also if you pop in and explain the problem with the ones that you have tried they may well give you a freebie tester amount.

caroline1973lefty

I also rate the faith in nature products, they don't have chemical nasties in at all and are pretty inexpensive. weleda too. and pitrok deodorant! is it true about it having aluminium though?

gemmaj

I must admit I use "nasty" deodrant 'cos I need something effective, but for everything else (shampoo,washing body and hands and face) I use soap - I am currently using Tanjero soap (they have a website and do free samples) - its all natural, no nasty ingrediants, and smells divine!

Maybe because its all natural it would be OK for your skin? I have quite long frizzy hair and I find using natural soap great because it leaves a tiny bit of natural grease behind which tames my hair down!