The Best Natural, Aluminium-Free Deodorants | Editor Reviews
We Tried 9 of the Internet's Most Highly Rated Aluminium-Free Deodorants
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Ok, so I really wanted to like the Drunk Elephant Sweet Pitti Cream Deodorant (£13). For starters, it's on the more affordable end of the spectrum (by Drunk Elephant standards), and I'm a fan of the brand's masks and serums so, I expected big things. My first impression was that the packaging is cute — with Drunk Elephant's trademark minimalist style and a user-friendly design. To dispense the product, you twist the base of the tube and the deodorant comes out of four holes at the top. Then, you can apply it directly to your underarms, either straight from the tube or with your fingertips.
The Drunk Elephant Sweet Pitti Cream Deodorant is free from essential oils, aluminium, and baking soda, and it promises to "soothe and deodorise." On this point, I'll give it half marks because, while it definitely has the texture and feel of a quick-drying and soothing moisturiser, I also found it to be about as effective at keeping me dry and fresh as moisturiser would be. In short: it didn't. I applied the product in the afternoon straight after hopping out of the shower, and within two hours of sitting at my desk working, my pits were already, well, not sweet.
If you're someone with super-duper sensitive skin, you barely sweat, and your don't really need deodorant to stay fresh throughout the day, then you might like this product. It has a barely there baby powder scent (like the rest of Drunk Elephant's body range) and is nonirritating. But, it pains me to say that I found it to be pretty ineffective.