Bicarb Toothpaste

For the last few months I have been experimenting with plastic free dentifrice. Dentifrice is the stuff you put on your toothbrush to clean your teeth – toothpaste usually though you can use all manner of things. My mothers keeps telling me that soot is good but that sounds more like a practical joke to me.

You can still get toothpaste in the old fashioned metal tubes if you are prepared to pay a lot and don’t mind the plastic caps which are hard to impossible to recycle. NB. Beth over at fake plastic fish also raises concerns about the metal tubes being plastic lined.

Or you could use bicarbonate of soda because…

“Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), a product used for many years by itself or in combination with other ingredients has several excellent properties. As a soft crystalline substance that dissolves readily, it has a mild abrasive potential. In solution it will kill on contact all of the motile microorganisms associated with periodontal infections, e.g. spirochetes, motile rods, etc. It will also kill other disease related bacteria. It will also neutralize and detoxify the bacterial acids and toxins that form in plaques (bacterial biofilms). I would put this inexpensive, readily available, product at the very top of the list of potentially beneficial dentifrice-ingredients.

for more got to mizar

You can buy plastic free bicarb here

The fantastic photo is Taiwanese Toothpaste Brands Originally uploaded by Danburg Murmur . Those funky looking pastes may well make me break my pledge

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For the last few months I have been experimenting with plastic free dentifrice. Dentifrice is the stuff you put on your toothbrush to clean your teeth – toothpaste usually though you can use all manner of things. My mothers keeps telling me that soot is good but that sounds more like a practical joke to me.

You can still get toothpaste in the old fashioned metal tubes if you are prepared to pay a lot and don’t mind the plastic caps which are hard to impossible to recycle. NB. Beth over at fake plastic fish also raises concerns about the metal tubes being plastic lined.

Or you could use bicarbonate of soda because…

“Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), a product used for many years by itself or in combination with other ingredients has several excellent properties. As a soft crystalline substance that dissolves readily, it has a mild abrasive potential. In solution it will kill on contact all of the motile microorganisms associated with periodontal infections, e.g. spirochetes, motile rods, etc. It will also kill other disease related bacteria. It will also neutralize and detoxify the bacterial acids and toxins that form in plaques (bacterial biofilms). I would put this inexpensive, readily available, product at the very top of the list of potentially beneficial dentifrice-ingredients.

for more got to mizar

You can buy plastic free bicarb here

Find other plastic free products with the >>>A-Z<<< plastic free index