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Toothpaste Ingredients

Do you really think your toothpaste is producing gem out of your teeth ? The ingredients of your toothpaste, are everyday product used in making of soaps and shampoos to obtain foam out of them.

A list of ingredients inside a tube of toothpaste includes chemicals, abrasives, additives, detergents and sweeteners. READ MORE >>

Some Dangerous Ingredients

1. Propylene Glycol: It is a solvent used as an active component of some anti-freezes, toothpaste, processed foods, cosmetics, and is used in everything from makeup to mouthwash. It can cause skin irritation further leading to kidney damage, liver abnormalities, nausea, headache, vomiting, central nervous system depression, rashes and dry skin.

2. Triclosan: It is also found in anti-microbial hand soaps. If it comes in contact with the chlorine and water, it produces chloroform, which leads to cancer.

3. Fluoride: It is used to strengthen enamel. Fluoride is considered toxic when ingested in high levels and is a controversial additive in water. It is a carcinogenic in nature and large doses can cause muscular weakness, clonic convulsions, paralysis and cardiac failure.

4. Sodium Lauryl Sulfate: It is a cleansing agent, commonly found in toothpaste, shampoos and soaps for making foam. Sodium lauryl sulfate can be made from natural ingredients, like coconut oil or palm kernel oil. It is a strong detergent known to cause eye irritation, skin rashes, hair loss, flaky skin and mouth ulcers (microscopic tears in mouths, also known as canker sores).

5. Fluorosilicic acid: It is used as a substitute for sodium fluoride in toothpaste. It is a toxic waste product from the manufacturing of phosphate fertilizers. 

Some Natural Alternatives

1. Brush your teeth with salt. Apply salt on the toothbrush instead of any commercial toothpaste.

2. Strawberries contain malic acid, which acts as a whitening agent by dissolving surface stains. Make a paste of strawberry in a small bowl and mix with 1/2 teaspoon baking soda. Spread on teeth and leave for 5 minutes. Brush with toothpaste immediately after it.

3. Eat these fruits and vegetables like apples, celery or carrots etc. These help in removal of deposits on the teeth because they increase saliva in a mouth.

4. Brushing your teeth daily for one minute will give quick results.

5. Tea, coffee, red wine, all red fruits: blueberry, cherry, blackberry … alter the brightness of your teeth. To prevent stains settle down, brush your teeth or rinse mouth properly soon after eating.

6. Mix baking soda into your regular toothpaste and brush your teeth with this mixture.

7. Use lemon juice to brush your teeth.

8. Hydrogen peroxide is an effective chemical used to whiten teeth.

9. Take a hard paper foil and fold it in shape of teeth. Apply little toothpaste and baking soda and mix together really well. Put some of the mixture onto the foil and place it on your teeth. Leave on for one-hour everyday.

10. Make a paste of coconut oil (3tbsp), Bicarb soda (3tbsp), 10 drops peppermint essential oil, 10 drops spearmint essential oil, 2 natvia (stevia) satchets, ground cloves (¼tbsp).

11. Use Neem branches (datun), instead of toothbrush, best alternative

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