Homemade Deodorant with Sage and Lavender

A homemade deodorant stick in a cardboard container, on a cork circular board. Surrounded by a natural cloth napkin, sage leaves, and essential oils on a dark wood surface.

Homemade Deodorant with Sage and Lavender

Homemade deodorant is easy to make and good for your health. This herbal deodorant recipe is made with lavender and sage, both herbs that have many beneficial properties.

Course Herbal Remedy

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Infusing Time 21

Total Time 30

Servings ounces

Author Colleen @ Grow Forage Cook Ferment

Cost $14.50

Equipment

Ingredients

Infused Herbal Oil

1/3 cup dried sage leaves
1/3 cup dried lavender
1/4 cup coconut oil
3/4 cup sweet almond oil (approximately)

Homemade Deodorant

1/2 cup infused herbal oil
2 ounces beeswax
1 ounce shea butter
20-30 drops essential oil I like to use 10 drops each of lavender, sage, and sweet orange
2 tablespoons arrowroot powder
2 teaspoons baking soda optional or substitute with more arrowroot powder

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Instructions

Infused Herbal Oil

Place the herbs in a half pint mason jar.
Melt the coconut oil over low heat.
Add the coconut oil to the jar of herbs and then fill the jar the rest of the way with sweet almond oil.
Cover the jar and put in a cool and dark place to infuse for 1-2 weeks.
Strain out the herbal material with a fine mesh sieve when ready to use.

Homemade Deodorant

Put the infused oil and beeswax into the top container of a double boiler, and stir as the beeswax melts. You can create a makeshift double boiler by putting a small bowl or a glass Pyrex measuring cup over a pot with about an inch of simmering water.
Once the beeswax has completely melted, add the shea butter and stir until it dissolves.
Remove the mixture from the double boiler and stir in the essential oils, then stir in the arrowroot powder and baking soda. Keep stirring for a minute or two to thoroughly combine. The mixture will begin to thicken slightly.
Pour the mixture into empty deodorant containers. Let the deodorant set up for a few hours before using.

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Notes

Lavender is wonderful for skin care products due to germ fighting benefits and its beautifully calming scent.

Sage is perfect because it has some natural antiperspirant properties.

It works to use carnauba wax instead of beeswax for a vegan option if preferred. Use less than called for, as it’s a harder wax.