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4.5
This works great for homemade body powdery. It's lightweight and very easy to add powder to. It doesn't seem to leak powder at all, even if I hold it upside down and shake it to get more powder in the sifter.If you want a body powder that absorbs perspiration and stops odor, here's one I cobbled together from several different recipes I found online. My daughter and I have celiac, and we both ended up with a severe corn allergy due to that, which means most body powders are off-limits. We’ve tried tapioca body powder (only works for very light perspiration and doesn’t stop odor) and talc (found out it was really, really bad for you… cancer, etc.). So we were searching for any type of a good body powder that didn’t have allergens, cancer-causing agents, etc., and we were coming up with basically nothing.We decided to make our own body powder and cobbled together this recipe from combining ideas for several body powders that we found on the web. We had to have a very absorbent powder that could handle perspiration and it had to kill body odor. It also had to be very fine so it wouldn’t abrade the skin at all with body movement, which is a problem when using baking powder. We also had to have no scent due to allergies and tolerance for smells, but scent is easily added if you want it simply by adding essential oils.So in case you have all the problems we do in finding a body powder, I’m including our recipe here for you to try. It has no scent, which we prefer. But if you want a scent, just add drip your favorite essential oil around your bowl of powder and mix it thoroughly to disperse the oil throughout the powder.Deoderizing absorbent hypoallergenic body powder:1 cup fine rice flour (found at grocery, but esp. Asian market; don't use coarse rice flour)1 cup arrowroot powder Bob's Red Mill Arrowroot Starch/Flour, 16-ounce or found at any grocery esp. in gluten-free baking section½ cup calcium bentonite clay Redmond Clay - Bentonite Facial Mask, Soothing Mud Mask | Clay of 1000 Uses, 24 Ounce½ cup kaolin clay Kaolin Clay 1 PoundStore extra powder in a glass jar (a canning jar is perfect). To dispense, use a mesh shaker (my daughter’s preference), such as Mesh Shaker, Newness Stainless Steel and Clear Acrylic Seasoning Fine Mesh Shaker with Rotating Cover, 3.7 Ounces (110 Milliliter) or a puff and body powder container with a sifter (my preference), such as 20ml 0.67oz Empty Refillable DIY Make-up Loose Powder Case Container with Soft Sponge Puff Mirror and Sifter Foundation Cosmetic Box (Pink).Very happy with this purchase.
