DIY Toothpaste Maker’s Journey to $12 Million in Sales
7th September 2021
An estimated 1.5 billion toothpaste tubes are discarded into landfills every year worldwide, and a lot of that plastic ends up in the ocean. But rather than reinvent the tubes themselves, a unique solution to the plastic pandemic is rising in popularity — zero-waste toothpaste tablets.
Often packaged in reusable aluminum or glass jars, toothpaste tablets are essentially toothpaste in a powdered form that’s pressed into a pill-sized tablet. Using them requires chewing a single tablet and letting it dissolve into a paste with a little help from saliva, or a swig of water before brushing.
Do they come with fluoride?
They sound a bit too Woke for me. Plus I think that websites using white text on black ought to be nuked from orbit.
September 8th, 2021 at 02:31
Of course there’s no fluoride!
Ingredients (mint version): Erythritol · Xylitol · Calcium Carbonate · Natural Flavor (peppermint) · Hydroxyapatite (nano) · Sodium Bicarbonate · Guar Gum · Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate · Zinc Citrate · Silicon Dioxide · Menthol
Xylitol is extremely toxic to dogs. Even small amounts of xylitol can cause hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), seizures, liver failure, or even death in dogs. It also doesn’t digest well, but ferments (as a sugar alcohol) in the colon, producing gas.
Erythritol is also a sugar alcohol, but it enters the blood stream and is excreted in urine.