Most deodorants mask smell with fragrance, and antiperspirants use aluminium salts to reduce sweat. Ours does neither. It deals with the bacteria on your skin that break sweat down and cause the smell, using natural ingredients and essential oils.

So you'll still sweat as normal. It's a deodorant, not an antiperspirant.

After a shower or bath, make sure your armpits are clean and dry (trimmed hair makes it easier). Take the lid off, hold the tube in one hand and push up gently from the base with your thumb until about a millimetre of stick shows. Hold it against your skin for a few moments to warm, then apply sparingly to both armpits.

Natural deodorant is temperature sensitive, so if it's been sitting somewhere cold it can harden. Warm the tube in your hand for a minute and squeeze the edge gently all the way round to loosen it, or warm it briefly with a hairdryer on low. Then push up from the base with your thumb. You only need a small amount to show above the cardboard.

Body sprays mostly mask smell for a while. In our experience a natural deodorant lasts better because it deals with what causes the smell. The toughest test we know is hours of sweaty jiu jitsu sparring, and ours has been through that.

There's less packaging too: cardboard tubes instead of aerosol cans and plastic containers.

It comes down to ingredients. Shower gel is mostly water and synthetic detergents, and 'parfum' is an umbrella word that can hide a long list of fragrance ingredients you'll never see. Our soaps are cold-process and hand-made, scented only with essential oils, and every ingredient is listed on the product page.

Not all soap is the same, so it's worth reading the label on whatever you use now.

Wet the bar and your hands, then rotate the bar to build a lather. You don't need much. Apply it to wet skin with your hands and rinse. Some people use a cloth or loofah, or rub the bar straight onto their skin. It's up to you.

Natural soap dissolves if it sits in water, so let it drain between uses. A bamboo or teak dish (not plastic), or a soap tin with a drainage tray, will make it last longer.

It's hand-made, and that takes far more time and skill than factory soap. A proper cold-process bar needs weeks to cure before it's ready to use.

Yes. Nothing we make uses palm oil, and the full ingredients are on every product page.

None of our products contain SLS, parabens or parfum. We scent with essential oils only.

The one honest exception to 'natural' is our shampoo bars. True soap is too alkaline for hair, so they use some processed ingredients. We'd rather tell you that than pretend otherwise.

We avoid it wherever we can, and Surfers Against Sewage has named us a Plastic Free Champion. Soap, deodorant and shampoo bars come in cardboard, which is easy to recycle, and it's FSC approved or recycled. Beard oil and shave serum come in glass with a bamboo lid, which has a thin plastic lining, and the dropper has a small rubber bulb, so those parts can't be recycled yet.

Yes. Everything is vegan and none of it is tested on animals. You don't have to be vegan to enjoy it.

With daily use, a soap lasts about 30 days and a deodorant about two months. Our Essentials Kits have two soaps and one deodorant, matched to run out at around the same time.

A Duo is one soap and one deodorant, a good way to try us out. An Essentials Kit is two soaps and one deodorant, which is about two months of daily use.

Same natural approach, with as little plastic as possible, three ranges. Smelly Men and Smelly Women are our adult ranges. Smelly Boys is Teen Spirit, a soap and deodorant made for boys who've started to smell.

Our deodorant is built around magnesium hydroxide, with a smaller amount of bicarbonate of soda. A small number of people still find bicarb or essential oils irritating, so if your skin is very sensitive or eczema-prone, check the ingredients on the product page and do a patch test first. If you get a reaction, stop using it.

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