GFP: Some of our readers asked us about making home made fluoride-free tothpaste, here is one way that seems pretty cheep and easy.
It's easy to make your own natural toothpaste! These instructions are especially useful if you are trying to minimize exposure to fluoride, such as for children or people who already have fluorosis. This toothpaste is sugar-free and non-toxic.
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: Minutes
Here's How:
- Mix three parts baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) with one part table salt (sodium chloride).
- Add three teaspoons of glycerine for every 1/4 cup of dry mixture.
- Add enough water to make a thick paste. If desired, a few drops of peppermint oil may be added to improve the taste.
- Apply and use just as you would any other toothpaste. Store unused toothpaste at room temperature in a covered container.
Tips:
- Consider Ben Franklin's toothpaste, which was a mixture of honey and ground charcoal. Sweet, tasty, kinda gritty... probably didn't keep the cavities away though.
- Don't like the flavor? You can use a different mint oil, oil of cinnamon, or oil of cloves (small quantity) instead of or in combination with peppermint oil.
- Glycerine (sometimes spelled glycerin) is available at many pharmacies or in craft stores that sell soap-making supplies.
What You Need
- sodium bicarbonate
- salt
- water
- glycerine
- peppermint oil (optional)
Comments
I make mine with coconut oil
I make mine with coconut oil and baking soda with peppermint oil...easy!
please do share your recipe?
How many parts of each --- it's so funny because I have been experimenting with these things and haven't yet come up with one I like. My fave natural toothpaste is the Nature's Gate anise but it is sure spendy.
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I like the idea of the coconut oil - I believe oral health is among its many health benefits (see Dr Mercola's site for the rest).
The one thing I would add - make sure the bicarb of soda is aluminium-free. I have only just discovered that most baking soda contains this unwanted metal but I have come across one brand, called Bob's Red Mill Aluminium Free Baking Soda, that does not contain it. Although it is a US brand (I live in the UK) I did manage to find some on Amazon.co.uk.
Arm & Hammer is aluminum free
Though I've seen a claim out there that 'baking soda' is a product of smelting metals and could contain aluminum, there is zero evidence to support this claim.
In actuality, there is a natural mineral form 'nahcolite' found in mineral springs or mines and it could also be man-made by combining soda ash and carbon dioxide.
....not a good recipe...do some further research
Glycerine is a very bad ingredient and so is table salt....don't you look into things before you post or do you just post any old thing you find?
Table salt is rock salt...the stuff they use on winter roads....so replace that with sea salt firstly.
As said, glycerine is bad news for internal uses including this so called recipe...try coconut oil, unrefined, raw, organic.....not fractionated.
Baking soda is abrasive and tastes like kaka....un-necessary anyways...
Water....I don't think so...try castille soap and lose the water.
As for flavoring, use pepperment essential oil or spearmint, cinnamon is also good but a sweetener may be needed and in this case avoid honey. Use agave syrup which is available at any health food store. It will more of a liquid form as opposed to a paste when done. Play with ingredients mentioned and create a wholesome product that will actually benefit your mouth instead of causing more problems. Three very bad ingredients for our mouths are alchohol, fluoride, sugar, glycerine and SLS-sodium laurel sulphate.
Word of advice....stop posting crap like this...and you wonder why people leave you negative comments....do your research before you slap any old thing on this site.
We do appreciate any help in
We do appreciate any help in our research and good hints even more as we believe the Press is everyone's, thus what I miss is the reason your hint seems to be so attaking?
About your comments I might add that it is specified that the salt should be sodium chloride, which has been used since the beginning of times and is part of what makes the sea salty. What is used as table salt depends of where you live on the Planet, as for where I now live I would never tell anyone to add it to a fluoride-free toothpaste as it is mostly sold with added fluoride! (yes, and they teach the population how essential it is...)
Baking Soda is a well known help not only for mouth well being but for many other body balances http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/51-fantastic-uses-baki....
About glycerine I will look into it as can ether confirm nor disconfirm your statment so far but thank you for pointing this out.
Coconut oil for example cannot be found in the country I live in if not by shipping it from another one and spending a lot of money. If it is a good alternative that is wonderful for those that are able to get it so thank you for this hint.
Blessings
a plus for glycerine...
It's the only thing I found (with rosewater) that quickly got rid of a skin rash - it was from the chemicals used to clean countertops of a restaurant I was working at.
Never thought about it for oral use but according to wiki "it does not feed the bacteria that form placques and cause dental cavities"
Dear Rays
While you are correct on the above dear freind, you must also realize that these people are doing the best they can. It is up to us all to do our own research and develope our own powers of discernment.
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I wouldn't use agave nectar,
I wouldn't use agave nectar, chemically, it's almost the same as high fructose corn syrup. If you believe sugar is a "very bad ingredient for our mouths", I don't know why you'd want to put it in your toothpaste. Also, you recommend castile soap, and unless it's the more highly processed type, it's got lots of glycerin inside it, which according to you is "bad news for internal uses".
No offense intended, but I don't think you're a proper judge of what toothpaste is "crap".
baking soda
just dip your toothbrush in a box of bakingsoda after flosing with butten tread ,it pops off the caseum better then regaler flos it wouk good for me .