Toothpaste with Tulsi

If you’re using one of the top selling toothpastes today, you’re likely exposing yourself to a brew of inadequately tested, potentially hazardous ingredients. Even many of the so-called "natural" toothpastes can contain some of these same ingredients!

Over 90 percent of toothpaste chemicals can pass through your mouth tissue directly into your bloodstream. So it only makes sense to avoid ingredients that may be potential carcinogens, irritants, or hormone mimickers, like carrageenan, SLS, triclosan, parabens, propylene glycol, dyes, and formaldehyde-releasing preservatives.

Fluoride is another toothpaste additive that, in my opinion, has far more serious potential health effects than potential benefits for your teeth. Especially since there are effective botanical alternatives for preventing dental caries, I’ve chosen not to include fluoride in my Refreshing Mint Toothpaste With Tulsi.

Refreshing Mint Toothpaste With Tulsi contains:

• Organic ingredients whenever available
• No fluoride, but still provides outstanding protection against dental caries or cavities
• No genetically engineered ingredients
• No carrageenan or other potentially carcinogenic ingredients
• No synthetic preservatives, but still has an 18-month shelf life
• No hidden heavy metals, contaminants or impurities
• No harsh chemical foaming agents like SLS or SLES
• No artificial flavors or sweeteners – just refreshing natural mint flavor
• No harsh sand (silica), but still provides dazzling whiteness
• No potentially dangerous antimicrobials like Triclosan

Instead, it contains time-honored oral health ingredients like Organic Tea Tree Leaf Oil, Organic Tulsi Holy Basil Leaf Oil, Licorice Fruit Extract, Xylitol, and Organic Aloe Leaf Juice for caries prevention, fresh breath, clean teeth and gums, whiteness, and a beneficial balance of healthy mouth flora.

Comes packaged in a 3-oz tube – perfect for traveling!

What Many People Don’t Realize About Fluoride

When kids ingest or absorb significant amounts of fluoride from toothpaste or fluoridated water during their first eight years of life, it can lead to mottling of the teeth, or dental fluorosis marked by unsightly yellow or brown stains and pits formed in the tooth enamel.

Children naturally swallow more toothpaste than do adults, so that puts them at an even greater risk of fluoride toxicity at a time when it can do the most harm!

Mottled and pitted teeth aren’t the only things that can result from too much fluoride. These other potential ill effects may occur too. Fluoride:

• Accumulates in your bones and can affect your flexibility, joint comfort, and bone strength
• May interfere with your thyroid function
• Can affect your brain function and may damage the developing brain

I’m not convinced that the possible benefits of fluoride in toothpaste outweigh its far more serious potential health effects, especially since it can accumulate in tissues and bones.*

Because most of us get far too much fluoride from other sources, I don’t believe fluoride should be added to your drinking water nor does it need to be in your toothpaste.*

 *These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.