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Homemade toothpaste: how to make your natural toothpaste?
Home cosmetics are more and more fashionable. Organic and 100% natural, homemade cosmetics allow you to adapt recipes to your needs, while respecting your health and the environment. To take care of your teeth, why not make your own toothpaste? Here are our tips and toothpaste recipes.
What are the benefits of homemade toothpaste?
Homemade toothpastes allow you to bypass the harsh products that can sometimes be found in industrial toothpastes, from fluoride to peroxide. Indeed, all toothpastes are not biodegradable and do not necessarily have 100% healthy compositions for your mouth and for your body in general.
Making your own toothpaste is the guarantee of a natural formula where you have a good understanding of all the ingredients. So you can adapt the recipe to your needs: more to freshen breath, to prevent cavities or for fragile gums. It is also the guarantee of a more economical toothpaste, with inexpensive ingredients.
Finally, making your toothpaste is also a gesture for the planet: no more chemical and non-biodegradable products, no more packaging at all costs, you will be able to reduce your waste production.
Make your toothpaste: what precautions to take?
To make your toothpaste safely, you have to respect the recipes you find and make sure they come from trusted sources. Indeed, on the dosage of abrasive elements it is necessary to be vigilant on the doses not to make a too concentrated homemade toothpaste formula, which would risk damaging the enamel.
Second important point: respect for hygiene rules when you make your homemade cosmetics. To have a healthy formula and keep your toothpaste for a long time, you must adopt impeccable hygiene to avoid the proliferation of bacteria.
When you get down to making your homemade toothpaste, take a seat in the kitchen. Clean your worktop then sterilize with 90 ° alcohol. Also clean your hands well, then clean and sterilize your utensils before starting preparation.
If you are using essential oils or other powerful active ingredients that can irritate the skin, consider wearing latex gloves. Finally, to keep your toothpaste as long as possible, consider placing it in a tinted glass container if it contains essential oils: their active ingredients lose power when exposed to light.
A natural clay toothpaste
To get started with creating homemade toothpaste, here is a simple recipe. Mix 3 tablespoons of powdered clay with a teaspoon of baking soda. The clay will act as a thickener to provide texture to the toothpaste, while the baking soda will remove tartar and whiten the teeth. To flavor your toothpaste, freshen your breath and bind the powders together, add 8 drops of sweet mint essential oil to the mixture. To avoid dispersing the powders, mix gently until you get a smooth paste.
A homemade toothpaste for sensitive teeth
To make a toothpaste suitable for sensitive teeth and gums, you can make a recipe based on cloves. Clove is an ingredient used in many dental treatments because it helps relieve dental pain and sensitivities, while healing small oral injuries. In a bowl, mix a teaspoon of baking soda with two tablespoons of powdered green clay. Then, reduce two cloves to powder and add them to the mixture. Mix while gradually adding water to obtain a very homogeneous paste. Then, to flavor your toothpaste, you can add 2 drops of mint essential oil.
Make your vegetable charcoal toothpaste
Vegetable charcoal, as an alternative to baking soda, is a very good whitening agent that is a little less abrasive than baking soda. If you want to make a natural whitening toothpaste that is gentler on sensitive teeth and gums, this recipe is ideal.
In a bowl, mix 10 drops of lemon essential oil with a teaspoon of activated charcoal. At the same time, melt a teaspoon of coconut oil which will give the toothpaste consistency. Mix everything until you get a smooth paste.
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