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Toothpaste recipes
The toothpst.htm">OraMedia Site for Dental Self-Sufficiency has a number of recipes for toothpaste and tooth powder. Salt has been prescribed as a good cleansing and disinfecting agent, and it’s been said that within two days of brushing teeth with salt all the harmful plaque-causing bacteria will be killed. Salt is also good for whitening teeth. [more] [search]
Good, effective and “homeopathic” toothpastes and tooth powders can be difficult to obtain. Thankfully online ordering makes it easy to get quality products in a trial size or a years’s supply or more for a relatively low cost. Various manufacturers make a salt-based toothpaste and one of the most reasonable (on Amazon) is the Weleda Salt Toothpaste
Another type of product worth considering is a natural tooth powder. Commercially available products include an organic tooth powder made by Solay
Herbal recipes for dental health, circa 1872.
Henriette’s Herbal Homepage gives tooth-powder.html">several tooth powder recipes and discusses the pros and cons of using them. Ingredients including parsley salt, toothpaste.html">Myrrh, Tea Tree oil, charcoal and oil of peppermint and the use of areca nut for tooth powder is discussed.
toothpaste.html">plain (baking soda based) toothpaste
Secrets of whitening teeth naturally
Salt was mentioned earlier. Some hot Indian oils apparently have a cleaning and “whitening” effect. There’s also a toothpaste.html">recipe for strawberry toothpaste and it’s more than just about flavor: using strawberries for dental health is an old practice. It’s even been said that brushing your teeth with strawberries is a good practice for whitening teeth! [more]
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