Oars + Alps Aluminum Free Deodorant for Men and Women, Dermatologist Tested and Made with Clean Ingredients, Vegan, California Coast, 1 Pack, 2.6 Oz

Great fresh scent and lasts for months, make the switch!

If you are coming from a mass-market anti-perspirant, this review will only be somewhat helpful for you. Your body will have to adjust to a non-anti-perspirant deodorant first, then a “natural” deodorant on top of that. It will take a few weeks like the Oars and Alps product listing states. I’d recommend finding a mass-market deodorant (only) first, use that for a while, then go to a natural deodorant. Why? Natural deodorants can be irritating to the skin and you don’t want to deal with too many transition issues all at once.I’ve been using non-anti-perspirant deodorant for nearly 10 years. I have tried at least 15 natural deodorant brands over that time, usually coming back to a conventional deodorant because the natural deodorant either: stopped suppressing odor before early afternoon, or irritated the daylights out of my skin (baking soda bad!), or couldn’t be applied without feeling like a piece of crumbly chalk. I’ll leave financials out of this for now since all the naturals did one of the above regardless of price point. I sort of found one natural that was still chalky, but at least suppressed odor nearly all day and didn’t irritate my skin by drying it out, but did cause breakouts!Well, Oars and Alps finally does everything I want it to do. I will say to anybody trying this for the first time to give it two weeks. And that two weeks is AFTER having already transitioned from your anti-perspirant to an intermediary mass market deodorant and having gone through the “detox” process. The first week I switched to O+A, I did have some redness and dryness to my pit skin, but it went away in week two. I’m glad I stuck it out. The O+A deodorant smells great, works all day, goes on smoothly, doesn’t cause breakouts, and lasts longer than many other deodorants, natural or not. Thank goodness … the search is over! (Please O+A, don’t change your formula).Now we get to a sticky subject, which is price. O+A is about twice as expensive per unit than even the already expensive natural deodorants. That might be a deal breaker for some, and that’s a fair reason. I do think O+A lasts a week or two longer than most, but I haven’t actually measured that, and the reason could totally just be there’s more product in a typical unit sold.I think there are a lot of people that will find O+A deodorant to be worth the premium. It will change your mind about natural deodorants. If you’re committed to the idea of using a natural deodorant but don't want to compromise, give this stuff a shot but stay patient to let it work without irritation after proper transitioning.

Like what other people said, I can understand why someone might not be able to get the best everlasting odor protection if they do a lot of strenuous movements throughout the day. I usually don’t have to deal with that because I do a bit of strenuous activity in the morning and then shower afterwards before putting on this deodorant. Which smells very nice for the first, I’d say, two or three hours. Now this may sound like not enough, but to be honest other deodorants, even one’s that smell very “loud,” fade and don’t last much longer than that, either. It also does the trick throughout the day of keeping the bad smell away even if the nice smell is very faint. The smell itself also is not the strongest, but smells very natural and clean. Less is more sometimes and it still does the trick. It’s quite an intriguing smell, and I personally feel sexy wearing this deodorant.Like imagine just a minute, you’re a Wolverine out in the forest but. This time you actually washed your ass beforehand and so you smell like a fresh and fierce but also cute wolverine. but still too sharp for anyone to want to double-cross. that’s what this smells likeThat brings me to my last point. I also add my perfume/cologne on at the same time of adding this deodorant and I feel like this particular deodorant (the one with bergamot) wouldn’t work with two out of three, of my more feminine perfumes. I’d definitely be considering trying another one once this one is done to see if another one is a little more universal or on the more feminine side. It’s ultimately a really nice deodorant and would DEFINITELY get it again.One more thing I forgot to mention is that sometimes it’s wet when you put it on. It IS a BIT weird, but it dries and is a very minor issue for me.

I love the smell of this, it is now my go-to deodorant! Smells like very a clean tropical ocean! It lasts a LONG time and keeps body odor away. No skin irritation for me and no perspiration issues! No stains on my shirts too!

Smells good(ocean splash) but nothing special, your generic blue/aquatic scent, which i like……but that’s where it ends. I have never worn antiperspirants so I didn’t need any detox period or whatever made up nonsense they come up with to make you think a product that doesent work for you is working lol but I digress. That being said I’ve still given this several weeks to work……it didn’t. I’m not very hairy and even when I sweat profusely I’m still not that smelly. The scent is weak and gone within 20 minutes and I can lift my arm and smell B.O. within a a couple hours and that’s without any strenuous activity. I don’t really care that much about the scent longevity but if the actual product isn’t going to do anything about the bacteria which causes the smell then a longer lasting scent to cover it would be nice. Many natural deodorants work on this premise so I don’t see why they haven’t done this here. So in closing the formula doesent work to neutralize the bacteria which causes the odor and the scent is too weak to mask it. Remember this is coming from someone who is at the low end of the “smelly” spectrum lol and it didn’t work for me so I can only imagine how bad it would be for someone at the high end. I got it for $10 on sale which I think is still way too overpriced for deodorant so the normal $15 or whatever it normally is astounding. Everyone’s body chemistry IS different though so it may work for some……flip of an expensive coin Good Luck. One star for the scent.