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Still
Still working at 6pm
The STILL mandelic acid deodorant stick standing upright
STILL deodorant stick, front view A hand twisting the cap off the STILL stick The STILL stick on a bathroom counter in morning light The STILL stick on a gym bench beside a towel
Works day oneNo baking soda · no aluminum

Smell like BO by the afternoon? That's not you. That's the formula.

★★★★★ 4.8 · 1,306 reviews · average previous attempts: 7 deodorants
$16a stick · lasts about 3 months · no subscription
Mandelic acid, 4% pH 4.2Baking soda freeUnscented or cedar

Most natural deodorant is perfume in a tube. Perfume fades by 3pm, and the bacteria making the smell never left. STILL uses an acid to keep your skin at a pH where those bacteria can't grow. Nothing to mask, so nothing to fade.

The offer, in full

  • One stick, $16. Two for $26. That's it, no club.
  • The 3pm Guarantee: if you can smell yourself before dinner, any day in your first 60, full refund. Keep the stick.
  • Graveyard amnesty: tell us how many dead sticks are in your drawer, we take $2 off each. Up to three. Honor system.
  • Free shipping over $25 · ships tomorrow
No detox periodNo subscriptionNo 3pm surprise
The part nobody prints on the label

Smell is bacteria eating your sweat

Sweat has no odor. The stink is what certain bacteria produce while digesting it. Every deodorant picks a strategy against that fact, and most pick a bad one.

Strategy 1 · Perfume

Cover the smell

Most "natural" sticks are fragrance and a wax base. The bacteria keep eating, the fragrance keeps fading, and the two curves cross somewhere around 3pm. You know the exact meeting it happens in.

Quits mid-afternoon
Strategy 2 · Baking soda

Nuke the skin

Baking soda does slow the bacteria, by dragging your skin to a pH it was never meant to sit at. For a lot of people the bill arrives in week two: red, itchy, peeling pits that somehow still smell.

Works until it burns
Strategy 3 · Acid

Remove the cause

Odor bacteria can't reproduce below a certain pH. Mandelic acid, the gentlest of the skincare acids, holds your skin at 4.2 all day. No colony, no smell, nothing to mask. This is the whole product.

Still working at 6pm

This is also why the internet's favorite armpit hack is a $9 bottle of facial acid. We just made it a stick, buffered it so it doesn't sting, and left out the parts that quit.

Hour by hour

A day, two formulas

The perfume stick
STILL
7am
Applied. Smells like a spa. Optimism.
Applied. Acid starts holding pH at 4.2.
12pm
Fragrance fading. Bacteria: unbothered, thriving.
Bacteria can't reproduce. Population falling.
3pm
The fake stretch. Head tilt. Sniff. Oh no.
Nothing to sniff for. You forgot you have armpits.
6pm
Reapplied in a parking lot from the glovebox stick.
Gym. The workout clause holds.
11pm
Googling "why does my deodorant stop working".
Still nothing. That's the name of the product.
A bathroom drawer full of half-used deodorant sticks that stopped working
We read the same threads you post in

You don't have a BO problem. You have a drawer of deodorants that quit.

Before we made anything, we read years of natural deodorant threads and reviews. The same three sentences appear hundreds of times:

"It wears off in hours at best." Every thread, eventually
"It worked for two weeks, then it just... stopped." The honeymoon pattern
"I have tried literally 20. It feels like such a waste." The drawer, quantified

Each of those sticks probably worked, briefly, the way perfume works. The drawer isn't your failure. It's the category's. Hence the amnesty: $2 off per dead stick. We know you have them.

The excuse we're retiring
"Give it three weeks. Your body is detoxing."

No. There is nothing in your armpits to detox. Armpits are skin. When a deodorant "needs an adjustment period," what's being adjusted is your standards. STILL works the first morning, because killing bacteria isn't something your body needs to warm up to. If it doesn't, that's what the guarantee is for.

Read before buying

What STILL does, and what it doesn't

Half the one-star reviews in this category are people who were sold the wrong promise. We'd rather lose the sale here than in your bathroom.

STILL does

  • Stop odor at the source, from the first application
  • Keep working at hour ten, because there's no perfume to fade
  • Survive a workout (their words, our spec sheet)
  • Skip the baking soda, so no week-two rash
  • Come in unscented, because fragrance was never the mechanism

STILL does not

  • Stop you sweating. It's a deodorant, not an antiperspirant.
  • Contain aluminum. Aluminum is the only thing that plugs sweat. If you need dry shirts more than anything, buy an antiperspirant and we salute you.
  • Need a "transition period." That's not a thing. See above.

Sweat is water and salt. It was never the enemy. The smell was, and the smell is bacteria, and bacteria is a solvable problem.

4.8
★★★★★
1,306 reviews · median dead sticks claimed under amnesty: 3
★★★★★

Did the 3pm sniff for a week. Nothing.

I've done the fake stretch move for so long it's part of my personality. Day four I realized I hadn't done it since Monday. Weird grief, honestly.

Dana K. · Verified buyer
★★★★★

Claimed amnesty on 3 sticks. Had 9.

The honor system did not survive contact with my drawer, sorry. This is the first one that made it past week three without quitting on me.

Sam O. · Verified buyer
★★★★☆

Works. Wish the cedar was stronger.

Four stars because I like smelling like a cabin and this barely smells like anything. Which, I've been told, is the point. Fine. It works.

Mireille B. · Verified buyer
★★★★★

Survived a 12-hour kitchen shift

Line cook. My previous record for a natural stick was 1pm on a Tuesday. Went home after close, sniff test: nothing. I'm unsettled but subscribed. Wait, no. Bought two.

Theo R. · Verified buyer
★★★★★

No rash, which is new for me

Baking soda formulas wreck me by week two, every time. Three months in, zero irritation, and I shaved and applied same-day with no drama. Slight tingle the first week, then nothing.

Priya N. · Verified buyer
★★★★★

My husband stopped asking me to sit far away

He didn't say it like that but we've been married 14 years, I can read a seating choice. Post-gym test passed. The unscented one smells like nothing, as advertised.

Carmen V. · Verified buyer
Start here

Three steps, no leap of faith

01

Order a stick

$16, or two for $26. Count your dead sticks first: the amnesty question is on the checkout page and we take your word for it.

02

Run the 3pm test

Apply at 7am, live your day, do the sniff you were going to do anyway. Do it for a week. Include a workout, we insist.

03

Retire the drawer

If STILL quits before dinner in your first 60 days, tell us and the refund is yours, no return label. If it doesn't, you have a drawer to empty.

The STILL stick standing on an office desk beside a clock reading three o'clock
60-day 3pm GuaranteeFree shipping over $25No subscription
Asked before every order

The questions people email us

Is there a detox or adjustment period?

No, because there's no such thing. Odor is bacteria digesting sweat, and the acid works on day one. Brands invented the "detox" to buy their formula three polite weeks of failure. We'd rather be judged on the first afternoon.

Will an acid sting or irritate my skin?

Mandelic acid is the largest-molecule, slowest-absorbing of the common skincare acids, and we buffer it to sit at pH 4.2, which is close to where healthy skin wants to be anyway. Most people feel nothing; some feel a mild tingle the first week. Freshly shaved pits may notice it more, the way they notice everything more. If you have a diagnosed skin condition, ask your dermatologist, not a deodorant company.

Why doesn't it stop sweat?

Because only aluminum salts do that, and this is an aluminum-free product. We're not going to pretend otherwise, and you should side-eye any aluminum-free brand that does. Sweat is odorless. Our job is to make sure it stays that way.

What about baking soda? It's natural.

It is, and it does slow odor bacteria. It's also pH 9, which is roughly the opposite of what your skin is built for, which is why so many baking soda formulas end in a red, itchy week two. Acid gets the same bacteria from the direction your skin already prefers.

What if it quits on me like the others?

Then you invoke the 3pm Guarantee: any day in your first 60, if you can smell yourself before dinner, you get a full refund and keep the stick. We can offer that because the mechanism doesn't fade. Perfume brands can't.

Acid where the perfume used to be.

One stick. $16. If it quits before dinner, it's free. The drawer has enough residents.