Natural Yogi Vegan Deodorant – Frankincense

Conceived and produced in Cape Town, this natural frankincense deodorant, like other Natural Yogi products is designed with the thought: what would we like to take into our beings after a yoga class, or a run or a hike, after we have just cleared the toxins and opened our beings?  Creator and yoga teacher, Nadia, discovered the formula when, on being concerned about what she was introducing at the sensitive, glandular area of the armpit, and having come across studies linking the aluminium used in commercial varieties to breast cancer and Alzheimer’s. She went in search for an alternative.

Made with only the most simple and natural ingredients and the crisp, woody, resinous fragrance of frankincense essential oil, the most incredible thing about this product is that… it works.  You simply take a bit of the frosty gel-like paste with your finger and smear this natural frankincense deodorant under your armpit. Now you’re good to go for 24 hours or until your next bath or shower.  It’s a bit of a different approach to using deodorant but it will soon feel natural and you won’t look back.

This deodorant is great for him or her and a little goes a long way! Choose between 50g or 30g in a reusable glass jar with aluminium lid. This container can and should have a second life. Please reuse or repurpose your empty jar.

Unlike antiperspirants, this natural frankincense deodorant does not block your pores.  Rather it acts to neutralise odour and does this by absorbing odour and also creating an environment that is not conducive to the odour-causing microbes that grow in perspiration, all while offering refreshing hints of the natural essential oils.  Knowing its harmlessness and the (even) health-giving values of the ingredients, it feels ‘right’ to use.

Compostable refill option

Refill sachets are also available for purchase. These are made from home-compostable wood-cellulose. Of course the best thing to do with the wrapping is to throw it in the compost. If this isn’t an option then one can bury it in your garden or also throw them with general waste – but they should NOT be thrown in plastic recycling.

Ingredients

Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Sodium Bicarbonate, Zea Mays (Corn) Starch, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Ricinus communis (Castor) oil, Zinc Oxide (non-nano), Boswellia Rivae Engler (Frankincense) Oil*, Tocopherol (natural), Copernicia Prunifera (Caranauba Wax)

*Frankincense
Frankincense has been prized for 1000s of years for its spiritually uplifting and also anti-bacterial, healing and anti-aging qualities. Recently it has also found itself at the epicentre of cancer research!

Aromatherapists have long drawn on Frankincense’s deeply soothing and calming effects as well as the way it powerfully opens and deepens our respiration. Taking us into a calmer space beyond anxiety and preoccupation with day-to-day survival, Frankincense is understood to broaden our awareness. For our skin, it is famed for its anti-aging qualities. It is agreed to tighten saggy skin and clear wrinkles, heal scar tissue, reduce large pores and even out uneven pigmentation and dark spots.

There has also been a great furore around what would seem to be Frankincense’s powerful anti-inflammatory qualities – alongside or central to its anti-cancer effects.