If you are feeling depressed, your deodorant may be impacting your mental health. In this episode of The Overcome Depression Podcast, Jennifer Stirling-Campbell discusses the importance of choosing the best natural deodorant to improve mental and physical health. She describes how antiperspirant deodorants work, and highlights the negative effects of aluminum in antiperspirant deodorants. She then encourages her listeners to purge chemical-laden products and offers recommendations for effective natural deodorants such as Lume, Schmidt’s, or homemade deodorant.
Highlights
- Purging chemical products can lead to better health.
- Aluminum in deodorants can accumulate in your body and become toxic.
- Minimizing aluminum exposure is beneficial for mental health.
- Sweating is natural and healthy.
- Fragrances in deodorant can disrupt hormonal balance.
- Coconut oil can serve as a budget-friendly deodorant alternative.
Links to The Best Natural deodorant for Smelly Armpits
Here are some links to my favorite deodorants!
Lume’s Natural Deodorant for smelly armpits…and everything else.
Schmidt’s Natural Deodorant for smelly armpits…and everything else.
Better deodorant is too expensive? Make Your Own! https://wellnessmama.com/ has some fantastic recipes that actually work!
Or MAKE YOUR OWN using this amazing recipe from wellnessmamma.com .
Not convinced? Read These to understand Why You need an All-Natural, Aluminum-Free deodorant
Create an aluminum free kitchen. Your body will thank you!
Aluminum is everywhere, but we really don’t need it. In fact, most of us probably have some level of aluminum toxicity. For this reason, the best approach is to minimize exposure and detox on a regular basis. Read this article HERE for some suggestions on how to do this.
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Full Transcript: Episode 19: Best Natural Deodorant for Smelly Armpits…and everything Else!
Jennifer Stirling-Campbell (00:01)
It is that time of the month, time to replace your deodorant. Welcome to the Overcome Depression podcast. The tools you learn here can make depression a part of your past, allow healing regardless of your present circumstances, and offer hope for your future. I am your host, Jennifer Stirling-Campbell.
One of the first things I did When I started realizing the impact of chemicals on my mood and ability to thrive and be happy and overcome depression was I went through my entire pharmacy, home pharmacy, all of the chemicals that I had, the products that I used, and I basically purged everything that I could afford to get rid of and replaced them with more natural items. One of the first things I got rid of was my anti perspirant
deodorant. Now what’s so bad about anti perspire and deodorant? It’s not the worst thing honestly. Aluminum is what is used to cause us to not perspire. That’s the anti perspire part. There are a lot of deodorants out there that aren’t necessarily anti perspire, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend them either because they have a lot of other fragrances and chemicals in them. And I will give you a list of some of my favorite deodorants at the end of this video.
that are very clean and actually work really, really well. Because honestly, When I first started shopping for deodorants and started trying different ones, I was rather surprised at the price as well as how poorly they worked. I felt like I was throwing my money away. trying to, because I might as well not wear anything if they’re not going to work. I sweat quite a bit. I live in Arizona. Summers…it’s inevitable. Especially when I was young and quite.
and poor; be honest, I couldn’t afford to keep my house below 80. I think there’s a point where we were keeping it at 87 because we couldn’t afford the air conditioning bill any lower than that. Crazy times. I’m really glad that I now keep my house at what, 79? It’s amazing. Most of the time it’s at 79. Sometimes at night my husband insists on 75, but completely off topic. Sorry. Back to deodorant. So again, what’s the big deal about
aluminum, which is the antiperspirant part of the deodorant. Well, aluminum is actually the most abundant metal on this planet from what I understand, which is interesting to me. Why would aluminum be so abundant? That’s a question I would like to ask God someday, because I don’t know the answer to that. But it’s also an element or metal that our body doesn’t really need. We don’t need that trace aluminum in our body. If we didn’t have any, we would be just fine.
However, we do get aluminum pretty much everywhere, from our water to the air. The food we eat to some extent is grown in the ground that absorbs some aluminum, and our aluminum pots and pans, our aluminum foils that we use. None of these things are terrible. It’s just when you accumulate over the year after year after year of
using aluminum foil and aluminum pans and antiperspirant deodorant. But over time it tends to accumulate in the body so that it becomes toxic and can do damage to our bodies and our minds. Aluminum is a known neurotoxin. At small amounts it’s probably not a big deal, but again we live in a world that’s become pretty toxic and so minimizing the aluminum in our products is helpful to mental health.
health of the body, all of that stuff. And that’s why I’m talking about it here on the Overcome Depression podcast. So how does anti-perspirant deodorant actually work? The aluminum is actually aluminum salts. And when they dissolve on the skin, they create kind of this gel-like substance that clogs the pores so that the sweat doesn’t reach the surface of the skin. Botox can also do this as well. I know some people who have used botox to prevent themselves from sweating. I don’t recommend this.
Sweating is usually a good thing in general, but what happens is when we sweat, that’s where the odor comes, not so much from the sweat, but from the bacteria that consume the sweat and then excrete whatever they do when they’re done consuming the sweat, and that apparently stinks. Aluminum also inhibits the bacteria that cause the odor, so all around it does a pretty good job at what it claims it does. However, again,
There are some consequences that come from high levels of aluminum in the bodies, which are neurological damage, bone disorders, kidney and liver damage, respiratory issues, blood disorders, oxidative stress, and enzyme inhibition. Additionally, the fragrances in a lot of these products are endocrine disruptors, so think hormonal imbalances not helping. And we all know what happens when we’re hormonally imbalanced.
bad moods all around usually, or just things not working properly, infertility, all that lovely stuff. So, better to get better deodorant. It lasts a long time. I want to say good deodorant is about eight times as much as the bad deodorant on sale. Maybe not. Maybe four times as much. But I do want to emphasize that I believe that investing in
these products that again they last a while. Just invest in things for your health that are going to make a difference. It will keep you healthy, will in the long term I hope pay off for you as well as make your life better, make you feel better. So the ones that I recommend are Schmitz. There are some that have natural like essential oils, things like that and others that do have fragrances included. So I would look on the back and just
check and see if you can Find the ones that don’t have the artificial fragrances in them. But Schmitz is awesome. Lumi is awesome. If you are on a really tight budget and you’re looking for budget, you can try coconut oil. I’ve heard from some people that that really truly works for them. So give it a try. You could, if you have essential oil, you could add a little essential oil to the coconut oil and slap it on. I will leave links to these products in the description.
I have no affiliate links for them, I just am impressed with their products. So please support them and yourself by improving your life one step at a time.
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