Julia Roberts says she doesn't wear deodorant

Julia Roberts was on Oprah for Earth Day yesterday to help promote her friend's new book 'Gorgeously Green.' Julia and author Sophie Uliano recommended ways you can work to preserve the environment by making small changes at home. They said it's important to choose organic foods if possible for both your family's health and the environment. Uliano talked about buying organic baby foods and said that other important foods to buy organic are dairy, meat and surprisingly rice, which can be grown with a lot of pesticides.

If you can't buy organic produce, you can make your own vegetable spray that gets rid of a lot of the pesticides. The ingredients are a cup of water, a cup of white vinegar, a teaspoon of baking soda, and some grapefruit seed extract. You spray it on the vegetables, leave it for 5-10 minutes and then rinse. They also talked about the importance of not buying water in bottles and bringing your own bag to the grocery store instead of using paper or plastic.

When they got to the personal care products that are good for the environment and your health, Sophie talked about the dangers of aluminum in deodorant. Julia felt the need to share the fact that she doesn't wear deodorant and explained that 'it's never been my thing.' She did say that 'sometimes mid day at work I freshen up,' but didn't explain exactly what that entailed.

The chemicals that you want to avoid in cosmetics are parabens, fragrances, phalates, and aluminum. The brands to buy are Jason's organics, Burt's Bees, Aubry Organics, Method, and Tom's of Maine.

It was all a little scary to hear how my personal care products and food contain a lot of ingredients that are harmful to the environment and my family's health, but it's good to know that there are small changes we all can make. And they don't entail stinking up a room. It's not like Julia Roberts smells bad like Matthew McConaughey reportedly does. I guess there are alternatives to wearing deodorant, although I'll stick with mine for a while.

Julia Roberts and Clive Owen are shown below filming Duplicity in NY on 4/14/08, thanks to PRPhotos.