Pit-Nat · in development

Pressed twice.

A natural deodorant made from the grape skins natural winemakers leave behind after pressing. One named producer per edition, printed on the stick, sold beside the bottle it came from.

Nothing is for sale yet. Illustration, not a product photo.

Join the first batch I make wine — take my skins

20–30%

of every grape pressed for wine is left behind as skins, seeds and stems

9M+ t

of grape pomace produced worldwide each year

named producer per edition, printed on the stick

How it works

100 kg of grapes, pressed

juice → wine · ~70–80 kg

skins ~20–30

The share left behind is usually composted, distilled, fed to livestock or hauled away. Pit-Nat buys a small slice of it — a stick needs only a little powder.

Why an everyday product

Everyday, not a novelty

You buy deodorant every month. You'd buy a wine-waste novelty once. The repeat purchase is the business.

Honest about the share

Skins are an ingredient, not the whole stick. The exact percentage goes on the label, the way the best upcycled brands print theirs.

Credibility from the rooms

Stocked beside the bottle it came from, in natural wine bars and shops people already trust with their taste.

Named, not anonymous

Most upcycled products say “rescued.” Every Pit-Nat says whose — the producer, the pressing, the harvest.

What wine smells like — and what goes in the stick

Each edition is named for a wine aroma and scented with a wearable version of it. Brett takes the savory side of the wheel, Clementine takes the fruit. No fault goes in a stick.

The full field guide to natural wine smells →

Two editions

Named like the wine, scented to be worn. Each edition is one producer's skins from one harvest — and when it's gone, it's gone.

Edition 01 · The guy edition

Brett

The yeast behind barnyard and leather — and a guy's name.

Inspired by

A funky Loire Cabernet Franc: green pepper and a little barnyard.

In the wineIn the stick

Barnyardhay, tobacco leaf, vetiver

Leathercedar and a trace of birch tar

Burned popcorntoasted, smoky woods

Green pepperblack pepper, fig leaf

Skins of producer TBC · Harvest 2026

Edition 02 · The girl edition

Clementine

A citrus fruit — and a girl's name.

Inspired by

A skin-contact white: dried apricot and orange peel.

In the wineIn the stick

Apricotosmanthus, a flower that smells like apricot

Citrusclementine, mandarin, bergamot

Fruitypeach, a touch of orange blossom

Skins of producer TBC · Harvest 2026

Edition 03

Your skins?

Pressing this harvest? Put a bucket aside and tell us.

Who it's for

Producers

Your skins, your name

We collect a slice of the pressed skins you'd otherwise compost, distil or haul away. You're paid per kilo, your name is on the edition, and the stick links back to your page on the funk map.

Offer your skins →

Bars & bottle shops

Stock it beside the bottle

Wholesale sticks shelved next to the wine they came from. A conversation starter at the counter, and margin from a shelf that currently sells nothing.

Stock the first batch →

You

An everyday deodorant

Aluminum-free and waterless. It works on odor and doesn't block sweat — that's what makes it a deodorant, not an antiperspirant.

Join the first batch →

Producer, bar, importer or maker? The partner page has the terms →

How it works — odor, not sweat

Sweat leaves your body odorless. The smell appears when skin bacteria break it down, and that's what a deodorant works on. An antiperspirant plugs the gland instead — which is why it counts as a drug, not a cosmetic.

Two glands, two jobs: eccrine glands release salt water to cool you; apocrine glands, in the armpit, release a protein-rich fluid from puberty onward. Neither smells. Bacteria cleave that fluid into small volatile molecules — a thiol for the oniony note, a branched fatty acid for the cheesy one.

Coming off an antiperspirant? Expect a rough week or two while your skin flora settles. The evidence is thin, but it's reported often enough that we'd rather say it than have you quit on day three.

What goes in

Draft direction only. A cosmetic chemist writes the real formula, with stability and safety testing, before anything is sold.

White-grape pomace powdertannins and polyphenols — astringent, may interfere with the bacterial enzymesOdor

Coconut oillauric acid works on the bacteria behind odorOdor

Arrowroot powdersoaks up surface moisture — the glands keep workingWetness

Shea butterglide and skin feelBase

Candelilla waxsets the stick, plant-basedBase

Nothing in this draft reduces sweat, and only two ingredients meaningfully touch odor. A v2 adds zinc ricinoleate, which traps odor molecules without killing off your skin flora, and magnesium hydroxide instead of baking soda — same job, far fewer rashes.

What we can say

Deodorant · helps control odor · absorbs moisture · aluminium-free

What we never say

Antiperspirant · reduces sweat · antibacterial · kills odor-causing bacteria

0 kg

of skins saved so far. The first batch starts the count — a true zero beats a made-up number.

Honest status

In development. Skins are seasonal — they're pressed at harvest, which in the northern hemisphere is right now. The first move is drying a small test batch from a producer we already pour. Formula, safety assessment and regulatory listing all come before the first stick is sold.

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