Aluminum in deodorant: the difference from antiperspirant

Aluminum comes up a lot in deodorant conversations. Here is the practical difference.

Antiperspirants use aluminum salts to reduce how much you sweat. Deodorants work on the smell instead and leave the sweating alone. Two different products, two different jobs, and the words get used loosely on packaging.

Our Mighty Citrus is a deodorant. There is no aluminum on the ingredient list and no baking soda either. Magnesium hydroxide and arrowroot powder are on it, and so are bergamot, grapefruit, orange, lavender and eucalyptus oils.

If you have a health question about aluminum, your GP is better placed to answer it than we are. The full ingredient list is on the product page.