Compare Zaffré Deodorants

Choose your formula

Four formulas.
One question.

Which one is built for your skin.
Three of them share the same zinc active. What changes between them is what sits alongside it, how the base feels, and what your skin can take. None of them block sweat.
No masking. No sweat-blocking. No guesswork.

How Much, and How Fast

Most natural deodorant that burns, burns because of an alkaline active. But the ingredient name is the wrong thing to look at. What matters is how much of it is in there and how quickly it releases, which is the one thing no label tells you.

SENSITIVE NONE AT ALL MAX MAGNESIUM IN SUPPORT CORE MORE MAGNESIUM TEA TREE BAKING SODA NO ALKALINE ACTIVE Slow, self-limiting release RELEASES FASTEST Magnesium hydroxide barely dissolves, so it releases only as acid arrives, then stops. Baking soda dissolves readily and delivers all of it at once.
No alkaline active → Releases fastest
NONE
SENSITIVENo alkaline active of any kind. Nothing to raise your skin's pH, so nothing to tolerate.
SOME
MAXMagnesium hydroxide in support. Barely dissolves, so it releases only as acid arrives, then stops.
MORE
COREThe same magnesium hydroxide, carrying more of the work. Still slow, still self-limiting.
FAST
TEA TREEBaking soda. Dissolves readily in sweat and delivers all of its alkalinity at once.

Two of the most common natural-deodorant actives, side by side: a saturated solution of magnesium hydroxide actually reaches a higher pH than one of baking soda. What makes magnesium the gentler of the two isn't a lower pH. It's that almost none of it dissolves at once, so it releases gradually instead of arriving all at the same time. Zinc chloride hydroxide, the shared active in Core, Max, and Sensitive, works separately from all of this. It captures odor molecules directly and doesn't depend on pH at all.

Start Here

Four questions. One of them is yours.

  1. Has a natural deodorant ever given you a rash, a burn, or redness?Sensitive · $32
  2. Do your days run long, and do you want the biggest formula we make?Max · $32
  3. Do you want the everyday one, done properly, without paying for the premium base?Core · $22
  4. Have you used baking soda deodorants for years with no trouble, and want botanicals?Tea Tree · $25

The Whole Line, Side by Side

COREEveryday$22 MAXLong days$32 SENSITIVESensitive skin$32 TEA TREEBotanical$25
Buy it if You want the everyday stick at a fair price Your days run long and you want the biggest formula Your skin has reacted to naturals before Baking soda has never bothered you
How it stops odor Magnesium neutralizes the odor acids, zinc captures the molecules The same, with more zinc and less magnesium doing the work Triethyl citrate works inside your own acidity, zinc captures the rest Tea tree and sage botanicals, baking soda, zinc oxide
Alkaline active Magnesium hydroxide, slow and self-limitingCarries more of it than Max Magnesium hydroxide, slow and self-limitingIn support of the zinc None at all Baking sodaDissolves fast, delivers all at once
Zinc chloride hydroxide Yes Yes Yes Not in this formula
Aluminum, alcohol, propylene glycol None None None None
The base One oil, apricot kernel. Dry, matte finish Four oils and a dry-touch slip agent. Cushioned glide Four oils, the same base as Max Three oils. Powder-forward finish
Scents Clean Slate Clean Slate Fragrance-Free or Clean Slate Tea Tree Fresh
On the skin Dry and matte, settles in quickly Cushioned, no drag, no residue No sting, no burn, no grit Powdery, with a botanical scent

Neither One Is the Compromise

Core and Max

Magnesium hydroxide

Bacteria break sweat down and release short-chain fatty acids. Those acids are the smell. Magnesium hydroxide turns them into salts. Salts don't evaporate, so there's nothing left to reach your nose.

It sits on the skin as a reservoir and barely dissolves, so it goes into solution only as acid arrives to consume it, then stops. That self-limiting behavior is the reason it's better tolerated than baking soda, and it's the same reason it's the base used in antacids.

The trade: a reservoir is still a reservoir. More of it means more total buffering and a longer shift, which is why the amount matters more than the ingredient name. Most people are fine. Some aren't.

Sensitive

Triethyl citrate

A plant-derived ester. The same bacterial enzymes that turn sweat into odor also break it down, releasing citric acid at the skin's surface.

It works inside your skin's own acidity rather than raising it, which means there's no alkaline active in the formula at all. For skin that reacts, the safest amount of one is none.

The trade: it releases gradually by design. Hit it with a sudden hard sweat and it can take a moment to catch up.

Pick One

CORE
$22. Magnesium-forward, in a single apricot kernel oil base. Fifteen ingredients and a dry, matte finish. The everyday one. Shop Core →
MAX
$32. More zinc, magnesium in support, on a four-oil base with a full glide system. Twenty-six ingredients. Shop Max →
SENSITIVE
$32. No alkaline active at all. Baking-soda-free, magnesium-free, alcohol-free, and Dermatologist Tested. No sting, no burn, no grit. Shop Sensitive →
TEA TREE
$25. Tea tree and sage botanicals with zinc oxide, on a baking soda base. The original Zaffré. Shop Tea Tree →

How Zinc Deodorant Works · Every Ingredient, Explained · Why Natural Deodorant Burns

8 years in development · 68 formulation iterations

Formulated and Manufactured in the USA