My Siblings Love These $9 Native Body Care Products

May 2024 · 3 minute read

My siblings have gotten accustomed to a certain level of luxury when it comes to beauty products. When they come by my apartment or when I visit, they are blessed with the runoff of my beauty closet that resembles a Sephora store. Despite trying $38 body washes and $75 body balms, they’re obsessed with Native, the body care brand that caps its prices at $20. They like it so much, in fact, that I regularly buy and send it to them in Canada.

First, I should clarify — Native is available in Canada, but the limited-edition and seasonal scents are not (at least in the areas where my siblings are). So every few months, I send DIY Native gift boxes to them. The specific contents change month to month but the core products are two Regular Deodorants, one Deodorant & Body Spray, and a Body Wash. They go through less shampoo, conditioner, and body lotion so I send those less often. 

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The body wash is the biggest hit. You can buy individual bottles and the limited edition fragrances on Native’s website. You can only buy the body washes in two-packs at Amazon, but it still only costs $18, so why not stock up?

My sister says, “I like that it’s clean and the smells are unique,” and adds that “it also lasts a very long time… I’ve literally turned so many people on to it.” The formula doesn’t irritate her, or my brother’s sensitive skin, either. Coconut oil-derived ingredients are at the core of the cleansing and nourishing properties while citric acids provide pH balance to the skin. Simple enough, right? Well, whatever the secret sauce is, it’s racked up the body wash 3,500-plus five-star ratings. 

The core scents are great, but my siblings particularly love two specific scents from the limited edition body wash collection: Vanilla and Cactus Flower and Desert Grass and Sandalwood

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Tied for second place are Native’s Body Lotions and Deodorants. Let’s start with the former. Like everything from Native, it’s incredibly affordable — $11 for a 354 ML squeeze-tube. It has a trifecta of moisturizing ingredients — glycerin, squalane, and coconut oil. Squalane dives deep to provide moisture, glycerin helps your body better retain its moisture, and coconut oil is like an invisible shield that keeps it all in. Eucalyptus and Mint is the favorite scent family-wide. It’s simply a refreshing and soothing combination. 

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Native’s deodorants (both stick and spray) are perhaps its most impressive formulation feat. We are a family seemingly genetically predisposed to copious sweating. As much as we may want to wear natural deodorants, it’s not polite or pleasant for the rest of the world if we do. Native changed that. 

There is a bit of an adjustment period (I say two weeks) if you’re transitioning from an aluminum deodorant but after that, it’s all smooth sailing. The scents are subtle but effective and thanks to the lack of aluminum, my white shirts are no longer meeting a premature death because of yellow pit stains. The biggest hit among the women in my family has been Vanilla and Cactus Flower as well as Sage and Sweet Citrus.

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