AuburnChick's Adventures

Every time I mention another clean product choice I’ve made, my coworkers and friends chuckle or roll their eyes a little.

I can’t help it. I only want the healthiest products passing my lips – or going on them.

For many years, I’ve been keenly aware of how bad artificial sweeteners are. They are sneakily added to products you wouldn’t expect – products such as toothpaste even.

In addition to the fake sugar, I have been saying, for YEARS, how bad added fluoride is. I wouldn’t let my kids get the fluoride treatments at the dentist’s office when they were growing up, and I refused to buy toothpaste with it.

I’d been using Jason Sea Fresh toothpaste, which had neither bad ingredient, but recently, I realized that the company had changed its formula, and I refused to buy more.

My search for a new toothpaste proved fruitless, so I decided to make my own.

I landed on this recipe, which I’ve taken screenshots of.

I only use unrefined coconut oil and baking soda.

I add the coconut oil to a glass canning jar and set the jar in a bowl of hot water to melt.

Then, I add the baking soda and stir well.

I put a lid on it and tip the jar sideways while it cools so it hardens at an angle, which makes dipping my toothbrush in and scraping some onto it much easier.

I spit into the garbage can because coconut oil hardens when it cools off, and I don’t want to clog up my drains.

This “toothpaste” took a little getting used to, but I’m not stressed any more about harmful ingredients.

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