I Tried Making DIY Toothpaste Using Only Ingredients I Already Had In My Kitchen

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I don’t know about you, but toothpaste is one home health product that I never really think twice about. Every few months, I buy an affordable tube that says promising things on the package, like “whitening” or “plaque control,” and I use it twice a day.

So when I first decided to make my own DIY toothpaste, it was out of curiosity and existential boredom more than anything else. My regular toothpaste works just fine, but… what would DIY toothpaste even be made of? Would it work? Would it taste horrible? I wanted to know these things (so that I could write about them and tell you all), but I had no idea what to expect.

Once I went down the rabbit hole of information about toothpaste on the internet, though, I discovered a lot more than I bargained for (as usually happens with rabbit holes on the internet).

First off, regular toothpaste contains a number of potentially harmful ingredients, like sweeteners, sulfates, and artificial dyes. I already knew this, but I’d buried it deep in my mind because, well, one can only worry about so many things in a day.

Many DIY recipes also contain harmful or just plain useless ingredients, however. And I found at least one source claiming that, according to some dentists, you don’t even need toothpaste at all to get your mouth clean, which blew my mind.

At that point, I decided to come right back out of the rabbit hole and just make a DIY toothpaste and see how well it worked for me. I used a recipe that doesn’t contain any sweeteners or essential oils, and I spent $0 on it because I used only products that I had around the house already.

And then I put the toothpaste on my toothbrush, and I used it twice a day. Well, I tried, anyway.

If nothing else, this experiment relieved my existential boredom for about 30 minutes. If you, too, would like to experiment with your teeth to avoid whatever else you should be doing, read on!

Source : https://www.littlethings.com/diy-toothpaste/

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