🧼 Wash or sanitize area before application.
💪 The first clockwise twist up is difficult as the sides like to stick to the tube. Warming up the sides can help!
✋Once the deodorant is exposed, hold to skin to soften the product while slowly swiping with firm pressure.
🫛 A pea-sized amount can be enough for a single application in a small area.
👕 Apply under clothes after dressing, or allow the deodorant to soak in for a few minutes before dressing.
🌀 Washable white streaks on dark clothing is normal, but careful application eliminates this issue.
☀️ Apply in the morning and throughout the day if needed for all-day freshness.
🌙 Apply at night for odor prevention.
🚫 Decrease your body odor naturally by decreasing stress and stimulants like sugars or caffeine.
🩹 If irritation occurs due to razor bumps or burns, try shaving with our SHAVING SOAPS.
❌ A detox period can occur when you switch away from antiperspirants. Your lymph nodes and glands are finally allowed to express toxins! These toxins were unnaturally kept in your body by chemicals before. This process can take days, weeks, or months depending on how backed up your system is with toxins. You can detox in cycles if the abrupt switch is too much for you. Read more about this below.
Deodorant Detox
Using a natural deodorant for the first time sometimes causes a “detox period”. It’s your armpit glands releasing trapped toxins from using a lifetime of antiperspirants. Antiperspirants prevent the natural sweat detoxification process from your armpit’s lymph nodes.
If your sweat or pits become darker, these are the toxins finally escaping your body! You can wear dark-colored or multi-layered clothing during this stage, lasting up to several weeks.
Irritation sometimes also comes with the detoxing process, but should pass along with the dark perspiration. If irritation persists or becomes serious, please stop using natural deodorants and try again when your skin is healed. Try not to use ANY deodorants during the healing process, or the detox period will start over again. After your body adjusts, take one or two breaks for healing. Users report never having another detox episode again if they completely avoid antiperspirants during their detox period.
Tin Containers
- Tin containers (being discontinued) allow a more controlled deodorant application and decreases excess use. The plastic tubes are more convenient to use and much more popular, so they will not be discontinued.
- Push down and rub the deodorant in the tin. Rub in circular motions to warm and loosen it up into an easy-to-smear paste.
- If tin top is too tight, put in refrigerator up to 5 minutes before attempting to open again. It also helps to gently tap around the rim on a table top before attempting to open again! These techniques will help to loosen the metal screw top.
Plastic Tube Containers
- If you are having difficulties twisting up your tube for the first time, try putting it somewhere warm. This allows the sides to soften up. You can warm it between your hands or thighs, or leave it out in the sun for a few minutes. After the sides have warmed up and softened, try twisting it up again clockwise. Once the contents have been loosened from the sides, there should not be another issue twisting up the contents.
- It is an easy fix if your plastic tube has been twisted up too much, resulting in excess deodorant exposure. Simply reverse (counter-clockwise) twist, pushing it back down into the tube.
Storage & Shipping
Deodorants should be kept room temperature in a dry area and out of direct heat or sunlight. Store away from pets and children. Natural deodorants can slightly melt in prolonged exposure to hot temperatures over 95°F. If your deodorant does melt, place upright in fridge for 15 minutes before attempting to open and use.
Expiry
We recommend using your deodorant within a year of buying for best results, as scent and contents fade over time. When you first use your deodorant, completely finish it within 6 months. Contaminants from the first use will degrade the deodorant contents faster. If your deodorant is more than a few years old, the fats inside start to go rancid. It can smell “off” and develop spots. At this point, please discard the deodorant. Follow the best by date on the price tag as well! We calculate the best by date 2 years from the manufacture date. The best by date is on every listing so you know what you are buying!
Beading & Other Inconsistencies
Farm-fresh suet tallow in it’s raw (unprocessed and natural) state can be compared to farm-fresh raw honey. If you have ever had raw honey crystallize after sitting in your cabinet, then you know about this. The beekeeper probably told you it is doing exactly what that product does naturally. Like raw honey, your tallow can be gently re-heated to go back to a more fluid, consistent texture state.
Raw, unprocessed honey still has molecular memory. This means the compounds draw back into their natural state over time, remembering their original composition. This is the same story with 100% grass-fed farm-fresh suet tallow – except that it beads instead of crystallizes. We can’t figure out the exact reasons for beading and we probably never will. Some tallow jars will bead, while others from the exact same batch stored in the exact same location do not! Beekeepers can relate: as some honey jars crystallize, while other jars from the same batch do not. We learned this from having our own honeybees for a few years. This is a natural happening with high-quality farm-fresh products, although inconvenient to our modern palates.
Raw natural honey (like farm-fresh tallow) is also different in texture, taste, and color at different seasons. This even happens from the same farmer and location. This is because of the seasonal availability of food for the bees and other environmental factors. Again, a very similar thing happens with grass-fed pasture-raised tallow. The tallow’s texture, scent, and color varies at different seasons – even from the same farmer and location. These are undetermined factors we have no control over due to the seasonal changes of environments and adapting natural genetics. In fact, more grass-fed cows have more smelly or “gamey” fat due to their more natural diets!
Despite these inconsistencies, the value of the product is still the same! With beading, it takes a few more seconds to massage the product on the skin to melt the beads. The other factors of “imperfections” are always a possibility with all-natural ingredients: affecting their scent, texture, color, and consistency. The ingredient is still “100% grass-fed suet tallow” or “raw natural honey” as per our example. The product still works perfectly naturally and still functions exactly as stated and as nature intended.
Sure, we can add more processed ingredients or chemical emulsifiers to remedy this. But that defeats the purpose of a natural product! This would only compromise the benefits of our farm-fresh, natural, animal-based products. Just like our natural animal fat soaps will never lather like palm-based detergents. Our hand-rendered tallow-based products can’t compare to the artificial consistency of highly processed and industrialized ingredients.
It’s best to consider these natural inconsistencies as proof of the integrity of our ingredients. We hope you take pleasure in knowing you are using a more wholesome skin product. Even if the texture, color, or scent wasn’t exactly “as-expected” like synthetic or highly processed creams are. Please know that we do our best with what nature gifts us! We hope that you can enjoy a truly superior and natural product for your body, despite any organic inconsistencies!
Don’t settle for anything less than the absolute best for your skin!