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Propylene glycol, Water, Sodium stearate, Organic aloe vera leaf juice, Witch hazel water, Glyceryl laurate, Fir needle oil with other natural plant oils, Chamomile aqueous extract, Hops extract [CO2] and caprylic/capric triglyceride, Ascorbic acid, Organic lemongrass 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 Tom's of Maine, and also Burt's Bees, 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).
This particular deodorant has a very refreshing fir scent, like a walk in a pine forest on a cool wintry day. I would have to say it is more of a manly scent, though I was using it for awhile, until I discovered Tom's Honeysuckle Deodorant (a little more feminine).
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