Vanicream Aluminum-Free Gel Deodorant - 2 oz - Unscented Formula for Sensitive Skin

Update Edit: I've noticed it works better if rubbed in a bit. This isn't like most scented deodorants. It works by using antibiotic properties, not fragrance. If you rub it in well, perhaps it works in almost a long-lasting, "dry" soap kind of way. If only placing a 1-2 kind of gentle coating motion, it really doesn't work as well. So I would recommend working it into the skin with the applicator 7-10 passes worth. Dont use more product than normal, I just mean spread it around/rub it into skin. Works really great. No smell, but allows me to smell like me, just without B.O. :-) Note: I've never been much of a sweat-er, so if you're someone who gets very sweaty easily, not sure if this would still be effective for you...BUT I would still try it, if I were you, anyway. Because it's been really effective for me and it can't hurt. I've gotten NO rashes or itching from it. I've reacted to several common deodorant products in the past which is why I decided to try this one. No weird discoloration. No damage to clothing. It has lasted over a day for me, when I've forgotten to reapply the next day and didn't need a shower that morning (it was a busy day lol I have 3 young kids so sometimes shower time gets delayed!) The only thing I dislike about it is that it's a wet gel/paste texture. So it stays a bit wet and cold for a couple minutes. But you don't have to wait until it's dry to put your shirt on or anything. I just go about my day, if it gets a bit on the fabric I can't tell. Like I said, no damage to clothing. It isn't oil based. It's also not wet enough to soak into the fabric, so no weird wet underarm spots when applying. It's just really great. Sure, maybe sometimes I wish it had some fun, interesting scent like "ginger green tea jasmine ylang-ylang sugar cookie forest" or whatever, but I KNOW I would get a rash from most, or any, kind of fragrance ingredients lol Tip: a lot of hippie dippy people like to say essential oils are safe for sensitive skin, but a lot of people get rashes from them. I don't understand how they are allowed to say on products with essential oils that they're sensitive or allergy safe. They just aren't. Even people who don't usually have what they consider to be "sensitive skin" sometimes react to essential oil. Just FYI. So if you DO have sensitive skin, you really should try to get fragrance free stuff. Essential oils are NOT hypoallergenic. Anyway, I love this deodorant. I hope they never stop making this because it's really the only one I've found that my skin gets along with. AND it works better than any other one I ever used. It's even better than a certain SUPER popular drugstore brand aimed at men that I was using before this. Not sure if I'm allowed to name the brand here in my review. Let's just say it's name is the name of a tool lumberjacks use ;-) I'm sure you know what I mean. Well, this works BETTER than that. At least in my experience.

I am updating my earlier 3 star review because the vendor reached out and immediately and solved the problem. They replaced the faulty deodorant container with a new one. Excellent customer service and I really love this product as it is truly hypoallergenic and actually works. Previous review: in general I really like this product and have a subscription to get it routinely from amazon. I give it 5 starts with the exception of this recent problem which is why I am giving it 3 stars. The last one I received was bone dry. There was NO gel at all in the container when I opened the sealed container. There are no dates on the container so I don't know if it was old or just defective from the start. No way to return to amazon or request a refund or replacement . Just want to make others aware to maybe check the container on arrival

I’m allergic to many things and get painful cysts in my armpits that get infected and when lanced, hold a shocking amount of green or brown guck. It’s painful AF and so, not out of wanting to avoid aluminum, I just stopped using antiperspirants. This cut down the cysts (the size of my thumb under my skin in my armpit). So I began my “natural deodorant” journey. zOMG I have bought over 30 deodorants. Anything with grass or tree based eases risk oils or even Baking soda broke me out in a bloody rash that would take weeks to heal. Weeks of zero deodorant and hebacleanse followed by cetephil facial wash and no clothes that were not sift cotton or silk. It has been a hellish struggle. The few times I thought I found something that worked, after 4-6 weeks, I would start getting very red which was my cue to go back to cetaphil facial wash on my armpits and no deodorant. After many years I had an ok, but not great rotation. Kopari unscented coconut deodorant (the essential oils in the scented ones give me a bloody rash) when I was too sensitive for anything else, but it had to be reapplied 3-4x a day and if I was exercising or anxious, that meant showers too. So then sometimes, if I didn’t kind a white film on my clothes, I would use MagnoSol in Rose. Still is viscous as heck so use a thin amount and spread with facial massage stone. That stuff will kill the worst stench abd can be reapplied if you break through and make you smell great again. The minus, it is hard as heck to get off. I would use Dr. Bronners Peppermint soap l, followed by Cetaphil facial wash. After about 10 days I would get irritated skin again, I’m sure from the harsh soap I had to result to, to wash it off. Then I found Freedom Deodurant in CocoVan and that worked better than Kopari on smell, but still needed applied 2x a day and once you broke through, no reapplication would stop the stank. At day 10 I got irritation too. Piffle. Then I say this Dermatologist on YouTube called Dr. Dray. She suggested this and I checked with my actual dermatologist and got the green light. So glad I did. Now I will tell you at first I slathered this on abd it pulled up like crazy and didn’t seem to work well, my pits were wet all day, though no white residue on clothes. Next I wasted abd was shocked that it came off with my cetaphil sensitive skin bar soap. That soap is light weight and could not cut through any other deodorant but Kopari. So, pleasant suprize. Then I thought, just how little can I apply and have it work and that was the trick. I turn the bottom wheel that pushes up the irifuct until you just start to think you see product. It’s clear, so, before you see a full drop form on top. (When I flipped over the deodorant with the cap on and marked it in half’s until there were 8 marks, it seems to take about 1/8th turn to sometimes not quite a 1/4 turn to get the perfect amount of product.) it is not much at all! That thrilled me for the value. If your armpits are damp, there is no way you will feel if you are putting product on. So I blot just armpits and do the 1/8 to just under 1/4 turn, look to see if there is pricier there and then apply it smoothly. Making sure it covers my entire armpit area. Then by the time I finish moisturizing and spf’ing my face, my armpits are dry. I have never had to reapply (though I have not jogged on summer heat yet) I have been using this daily for over a month and ZERO irritation!!! Zero. No red, no bloody rash or lumps that will be so painful I can’t live my arm due weeks... just, smooth, calm, happy, no stank skin. I feel so great about this product that I bought the anti perspiration version to try for when I wear my dry Jean only silk ball gown after the pandemic is not as big an issue. So save yourself 5+ years and 20+ Products at over $5.00 each and just buy this. It may take a few tries to master the application, but you will adore it once you do!

I used this deodorant for about a year with only minor irritation and adequate odor protection and though I had finally solved the problem of functional deodorant without rash/chemical burns/mess. About 6 months ago got my subscribe and save delivery and the container had a different shape. I did what any allergy sufferer does and checked the ingredients against the old style. Everything was the same except where it used to say purified water, it now says water. Well, I'm not allergic to water, so when the old one ran out I moved onto the new stick. Within minutes I felt itchy. I continued use thinking it must be something else. I soon had huge red halos around both my pits that itched intensely. I stopped using, smelled bad for two weeks, tried again. Even worse reaction. I switched back to Thai Crystal stick (messy). Recently we visited family and I had a stick of this stuff in the travel bag. I figured it's only 2 nights, I can handle a little rash. I woke up at 2am with epic level itching and had to wash my armpits. I have no idea what is in this product that I am allergic to, it doesn't have anything in it that came up on my testing. I have to assume either the ingredients list is incorrect, the "water" is some sort of industrial runoff, or I suddenly became allergic to something extremely hypoallergenic right when the company changed the product.

I’ve used the same deodorant for as long as I can remember. I’m not good with change. Then, I got a slap of reality. I broke out in an unforgiving rash! I ended up having to go to the dermatologist multiple times! He told me I was having an allergic reaction to the hygiene products I was using. How?!?? I’ve used them since I was a little girl! This couldn’t be happening! It was, though. I had to do something. He said I had to go with some of the best fragrance, dye, etc. free products I could buy. He gave me a few different names of products. He wanted me to try this, and see if it got better. I came home and started searching Amazon until I found this deodorant (amongst other Vanicream products). I decided to try it to see if it would work. I noticed pros and cons with this deodorant. First, it’s very expensive for a bottle of deodorant! It goes quickly! It is a great gel formula, though! It goes on great! It goes on (and for the most part) stays clear! I did notice, that after having it on several hours, the deodorant started to slowly turn into a crumb like material which I wasn’t crazy about! The deodorant did provide great odor protection for almost 48 hours! This deodorant doesn’t keep me as odor free as other brands I used to use. Like I said, it lasted approx 48 hours before I had body odor again. Now, the sensitive skin part? It is spot on! It is SO easy on the skin! It is 100% fragrance free! It’s the ONLY deodorant that doesn’t sting and burn when I apply it after shaving! That was mind blowing! It’s very, very gentle! It also helped heal the rash and stop the itching! Having said all of this, it is on the more costly side! The rash came with a cost, too! A miserable cost! I just needed something that would work! I found it in this deodorant! It’s so gentle! It NEVER burns! There is no more rash! It was totally worth it! I would definitely recommend this product to anybody that needs an incredibly gentle and professionally recommended product! It really does work!

It is truly unscented and fragrance free, and it’s very effective. But the application system was defective, it fell apart from inside, I can barely use it after two days. I’ll give it another try hoping that the plastic won’t break this time.

This saved me. I have tried lumi, secret, native, lush, hume, humble, hello, toms, schmidts, salt deodorants solid and spray, aloe vera deodorants, and probably more ive blocked out. I was convinced I just am destined to stink 3 hours after a shower lol. Ive spent years searching for a deodorant as some work for a few weeks then stop. This is the best deodorant ive tried and I work outdoors. Just seriously amazing and good ingredients too its simple. I also use panoxyl as a antibacterial wash in the shower!

Husband has sensitive skin and this does the job. Good odor prevention all day.

Great deodorant for my sensitive skin, expensive though.

Excellent product!

The best

Good. the smell itself is so mild and perfect for ppl who don't like strong floral smell

Vanicream doesn't make the skin around my underarms itch. My underarms don't itch either. The cons are that it does stay wet for a while so you can't put your top on right away, but that's minor. This is a deodorant, not an antiperspirant. I would recommend Vanicream. Am so happy that there is no itch on my skin anymore. It was driving me crazy. Vanicream to the rescue. A great invention.