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Make Deodorant With Me!

Hi Friends! It's been a while, and I am still implementing and tweaking many practices with my family's zero waste routine. Recently I found that my husband's deodorant from the previous post wasn't quite up to snuff as I wanted it to be. My "Meow Meow Tweet" deodorant had been all used up, and so I was on the hunt for figuring out something that we both could use. I was determined to find the ingredients given by Lauren Singer, in her youtube video: The ingredients are: 2 Tbs arrowroot powder 1 Tbs baking soda 1 Tbs coconut oil 1 Tbs shea butter a few drops of essential oil of choice a glass bowl a spatula a glass jar of sorts Baking soda is the easiest, as it can be found anywhere in a cardboard box that can be recycled. I also buy coconut oil in as large a container as possible (preferably a glass jar because glass can be easily recycled). After a year of waiting, a beautiful zero waste shop in Newtown Connecticut called &