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alcohol denat., water, salvia officinalis (sage) leaf extract, lavandula hybrida (lavandin) oil, citrus medica limonum (lemon) peel oil
I'm going to be brutally honest here: there is no natural alternative that stops sweat the way that anti-perspirants do. That is because anti-perspirants use chemicals to block up the pores in the armpits, preventing the natural cooling mechanism that nature has given us. It takes aluminum salts to do this, and there is a lot of doubt as to the safety of aluminum when it enters the body. Read the Green Screen comments to the right for more about the potentially toxic effects of anti-perspirants.
So for me, anti-perspirants are out of the question, except on really important, rare, and stressful days (interviews, speeches, my wedding) when I just know that I am going to perspire profusely and it would be mortifying to find myself in a cloud of body odor. For all the other, fairly routine days, herbal deodorants have worked marvelously for me. I love Burt's Bees, and also Tom's of Maine, which smell herbally fresh and do a great job of controlling the growth of bacteria (which is the cause of body odor, not the sweat itself).
You may find that after using an herbal deodorant for awhile, the sticky, blocked-up feeling that anti-perspirants can leave on your armpits for days, even after showering, is extremely annoying (and worrisome). When I have to use anti-perspirant on those rare, stressful occasions, I use isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol to remove anti-perspirant residue before I go to bed.
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