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How to Make Your Own Toothpaste
Dental care is a necessary part of your health and wellness. Being able to provide your own dental care is a great way to establish your self-sufficency and save your family money.
Below are some ideas on how you can make your own toothpastes or take care of your teeth in a disaster.
Basic Toothpaste Recipe
• 1/2 cup Baking Soda
• 1/2 cup Coconut Oil
• Drops of Peppermint or Spearmint (optional)
Simply mix equal parts baking soda and coconut oil. Add a few drops of peppermint or spearmint if you want to add some fresh flavor. This recipe creates an effective, yet simple, toothpaste. After you’ve prepared the batch, store it in a glass jar with a lid. It doesn’t need to be refrigerated.
Advanced Toothpaste Recipe
• 1/2 cup of Baking Soda
• 1/4 cup Hydrogen Peroxide
• 1/4 cup Warm Water
Optional:
• 3 tsp Glycerin or Xylitol
• 1/4 cup of Water
Pour a half a cup of baking soda into a mixing bowl. Baking Soda is found in most commercial toothpastes and is a natural cleaner. If you would like to add glycerin, mix in 3 teaspoons of it now. It (or xylitol) acts as a sweetener that promotes good mouth health. However, it will add a thin layer on your teeth that some people don’t prefer.
Then add 1/4 cup of household hydrogen peroxide. The hydrogen peroxide will naturally disinfect your mouth and whiten your teeth.
Emergency Alternatives
Before toothpaste and tooth powder came around, people would sometimes use twigs from the Indian Lilac Tree (Neem tree) to clean their teeth. In fact, oils from the Indian Lilac are used in many modern toothpastes and dental products. It has many antibacterial and antiviral qualities.
Indian Lilac trees are typically 35-40 feet tall with wide spread branches and fairly dense. It is an evergreen tree that is round or oval and can reach a diameter of 50-60 feet. It has small white flowers and elongated green leaves.
Your Ideas
Do you make your own toothpaste? What do you use to make it? Comment below to share your recipe.
This tears up your enamel. What about something for EXTREMELY sensitive teeth. I can’t even breathe through my mouth when it’s cold! I have to breathe through a scarf!
January 12th, 2013 at 7:12 amI’ve heard from a dental hygenist that hydrogen peroxide will cause something called ‘hairy mouth disease’ which coats your inner mouth with a fuzzy film. ech. For sensitive teeth use sensodyne toothpaste and stock up on it!
January 12th, 2013 at 8:51 amI’ve used a few drops of very diluted bloodroot for cleaning my teeth. Used to be in some product from long ago. Does a super good job – just don’t over do it!
January 12th, 2013 at 9:01 amXylitol can be used instead of baking soda and will be less abrasive on your teeth. Xylitol has been shown to actually repair and restore damaged tooth enamel. I just use coconut oil, Xylitol, and a drop of peppermint essential oil (make sure it’s for internal use). This works great, tastes, great and my teeth have never felt fresher or cleaner.
January 12th, 2013 at 9:13 amXylitol can be used instead of baking soda and will be less abrasive on your teeth. Xylitol has been shown to actually repair and restore damaged tooth enamel. I just use coconut oil, Xylitol, and a drop of peppermint essential oil (make sure it’s for internal use). This works great, tastes, great and my teeth have never felt fresher or cleaner. I love it!
January 12th, 2013 at 9:14 amAdd drops of “Tea Tree Oil” – Melaleuca Oil – to your toothpaste recipe. It is a great anti-microbial (anti-bacterial & anti-fungal).
Or, put a few drops in some water and use as a mouthrinse for the same anti-microbial effect.
January 12th, 2013 at 9:39 amAs a practicing dentist I wanted to reply to “azadai’s” comment. I have never heard of hydrogen peroxide causing ‘hairy mouth disease’. I have never even heard of a pathological entity known as ‘hairy mouth disease’. There is one known as ‘Black Hairy Tongue’ but it has nothing to do with hydrogen peroxide.
January 12th, 2013 at 9:45 amIs the mixture with hydrogen peroxide able to be stored in a jar or must it be mixed prior to each use? If it can be stored, where and what is the shelf life?
January 12th, 2013 at 1:07 pmI use an ionizing toothbrush, sometimes use toothpaste, sometimes not, but it it always leaves my teeth feeling smooth, and my mouth feeling fresh. There are several different kinds, and the batteries will last a couple of years, or one company makes a solar one that should last indefinitely.
January 12th, 2013 at 6:34 pmWhy the coconut oil? Does it have a healthful benefit or is it just for tast. As a kid we used arm & hammer baking soda on a damp tooth brush
January 12th, 2013 at 6:50 pmI have been using 1 part salt and 3 part baking soda for 56 years now and still have all of my teeth. It is easy to make and to store. I don’t have many dates though after the first night. When the girls see what I use to rush my teeth with each morning…they move out quickly. Hope this helps!
January 12th, 2013 at 9:42 pmFrank Ludvig
Rubbing fresh sage leaves over your teeth is an old herbal toothpaste as well as drying it and making a paste with the powder when you need it
January 13th, 2013 at 12:43 amWild Oil of Oregano is an excellent rinse (3-4 drops diluted in warm water). It has natural antibiotic and antifungal properties and works great to heal mouth/gum sores.
January 13th, 2013 at 7:13 amwhen using peroxide make sure it does NOT say standarized. then you may use it in your mouth,cleaning, and in your vaporizer and many more. dentist when going to school get taught that toothpaste is the only way to go and to use floride which is so bad for you.
January 13th, 2013 at 8:00 amSo we are all brain washed into thinking that if you do not use they’re toothpaste then your mouth and teeth are so very germy.
I never heard of using coconut oil for toothpaste but I am very excited about trying this recipe. I too add both peppermint and tea tree oil. My dentist said that I have an infection in my lower bottom molars and need to get this really expensive new treatment to get rid of it or pull them. so I went home and though about it. I mixed up some golden seal, echinesea, peroxide. along with peppermint, and tea tree oil. put it in my water pik, after brusing I used that and no more infection and that has been over a year ago. I do not floss my teeth anymore, I just use the water pik and that works so much better than floss!!!
I have been using lime stick bitten top as a brush and
January 13th, 2013 at 4:43 pm1 part salt
1 part soda
1 part ginger powder
This is a great topic as my teeth were sensitive too. Discovered that toothpaste has an abrasive agent in it Silicon or something like that that wears the enamel off the teeth. So then the dentist prescribes Sensodyne or prescription toothpaste to combat the tooth pain. Here goes the circle they never get off of. Wonder why there are so many tv commercials for sensitive teeth lately? Well, between the fluoride, the Silicon (?), bleaching agents and other additives there is not much good in toothpaste. So my remedy was what we used as children: Plain ole baking soda dropped in the hand and using a wet toothbrush, brush the teeth. Never heard of adding anything else. I asked my dental hygienist and reg dentist to carefully watch my teeth and for the last 2 years – they are just fine. Oh, the sensitivity is gone. I think I will try the Oil of Oregano as it has great healing properties in it as well as tea tree oil.
January 14th, 2013 at 5:53 amMy solution is coupons to get toothpaste for free.
1) Collect 50 cent coupons for Colgate from the paper
2) Wait for Kroger to sell Colgate for $1 each
3) Buy them for free, when using Kroger’s double coupon policy
I’ve got over a 2 year supply of toothpaste now for my family, and it was all free.
I know that’s not sustainable long term, but I don’t grow any of the above ingredients myself, so any of these recipes would be just as unsustainable for me.
January 14th, 2013 at 10:46 amThe fluoride in toothpaste is not harmful to you. It is not systemic. Stannous fluoride aids in the formation of dental enamel. Typically, toothpaste has 1000 mg/Kg of fluoride (or 0.1 percent) As long as you are not eating toothpaste as a snack it is not harmful to you.
January 14th, 2013 at 11:18 amI am the manager of a Dental practice and my husband is a Dentist. I usually have cleanings every 3 months. I switched from regular tooth paste to health food store brands for a while. Then I switched to using only baking soda. I have used it for about 2 years now. I was in a car wreck and not able to get in for my regular cleanings. When I finally did, it had been 9 months instead of the usual 3. I was expecting a “bad report” about how hard it was to blast off all the tarter. Instead, our Dental Hygienist wanted to know my routine because my teeth were in such good shape. My response was baking soda. I also do the following. I brush morning and night. I try to never miss the night time cleaning. Sometimes I brush after every meal, but it’s not always convenient. I always floss, scrape my tongue with a plastic tongue scraper to control bad breath, and I use a water pic to lodge fine food particles from between my teeth, because my teeth the are close together, and I use an electric toothbrush most of the time, except on trips. If my throat ever gets sore,which is rare for me, I rinse with Hydrogen peroxide. I might use my husbands natural toothpaste, if on a vacation and I forget my baking soda, but it never makes my teeth feel as clean. I have never lost enamel.
January 16th, 2013 at 8:10 amSome great suggestions! I spend a fortune of natural/fluoride-free toothpaste for a family of 5.
So, what have you heard of about enamel erosion? What can we do to repair/restore it? Anything at all???
Thanks.
February 21st, 2013 at 11:13 am