International Toothpaste Museum

This is the International Toothpaste Museum's very first head-to-head toothpaste review! At Thanksgiving, I traveled to Dallas, Texas to visit my daughter and son-in-law. It's always great to see them. A mandatory stop during any visit to Dallas is H.E.B. Central Market . It's like Whole Foods and Trader Joe's blended together to make an even better supermarket. The outlet that's near my daughter and son-in-law's place is huge. They supply fresh fruit and veggies of all sorts, an in-house gourmet bakery, and a massive selection of delicious everythings. H.E.B. has a house brand called Field & Future  - "...products [that] are clean & green, inside and out, which helps reduce our impact on natural resources." Naturally, I had to purchase their toothpaste. Whole Foods' 365 brand is its value-oriented product line. My loving wife gave me a tube for Christmas. They are both recommended. Similarities: Excellent value for the money Healthy formu...

The International Toothpaste Museum has been around since April 2008. It has been 17 years since the first toothpaste review! Technology has come a long way since then. Google Lens is a very useful tool that rolled out about ten years ago. It has recently become very easy to use via the simple Google app on my iPhone. Nonio comes from Japan. I have yet to learn how to read Japanese, so I was delighted to see the translation of words on the toothpaste package via Lens: Born from bad breath science Prevents bad breath by sterilizing causitive bacteria Stain off Below are the wrapper graphics. I love that they reflect the many cultural differences between my world and the Japanese world. Lens provided the translations on the right side. Visiting their website yielded much deeper insight into the Nonio brand. Lion is apparently pitching to a Japanese GenZ audience, focusing on health and wellness - and personal relationships! Born from the science of bad breath, NONIO doesn't just ...

Colgate is a worldwide brand. They sell certain toothpastes in some countries and not others because tastes vary around the world. Natural Extracts are sold in many parts of the world but not in the USA. When I did a Google search, the top organic search result for "Natural Extracts" was for a not-quite-in-the-ballpark page  on Saudi Arabia's Colgate website. Adding "Açaí" to the search phrase did yield a relevant page . My lovely daughter-in-law made a business trip to El Salvador and came back with a wonderful gift of Açaí Natural Extracts toothpaste. She gave it to me as a Christmas present. I have taken a long time to write this review, because describing the flavor is almost beyond my abilities. Açaí and Red fruits and berries  (translated from Spanish) is an interesting choice for a toothpaste flavor. One would think of a natural yogurt or ice cream - but not a mouth-cleansing product. The flavor perfectly balances both sweet and refreshing. After brushing...

One thing is true about every toothpaste reviewed on this website - they were purchased by someone using money. And who can't use a little more money? So here are two ways to make your favorite toothpaste last longer... 1. Use a toothpaste squeezer . My nephew, Tijs, gave me a toothpaste squeezer, shown here. (That was very kind of him!) Tijs is the son of my sister Amy, who is the inspiration behind the International Toothpaste Museum  - through her many gifts of exotic toothpastes. There are several varieties of toothpaste squeezers. The model shown is quite powerful and squeezes every last bit of the paste out of the opening, except for the part out at the very top. You can find toothpaste squeezers on the world's largest retailer that begins with "A." (I do not want to necessarily endorse them, since they often squeeze smaller retailers out of business. A simple search on Google yields many other toothpaste squeezer sources.) Be forewarned that the squeezer will m...

 Dr. Rudolph's Tandzout is from Belgium, where my sister lives. Amy very kindly gifted me this healthy tooth salt. It's a pleasant change from my normal tooth-brushing regimen to use powder instead of paste. When I was a kid, Arm & Hammer Baking Soda was an inexpensive alternative to toothpaste for a few people in North America. Probably 20 or 30 years before I was a kid, it was a more widely-known alternative. I distantly remember that they even released flavored baking soda at some point. Arm & Hammer now offers a wide variety of toothpastes . Most of them focus on the health benefits to your teeth - strengthening and even " whole mouth protection ." Whitening and breath freshening could arguably be for the benefit of others. But back to our friend Dr. Rudolph. His tooth salt tastes and feels very much like the baking soda I occasionally cleaned my teeth with years ago... very salty, as you might expect. Sage is the sole non-mineral ingredient. My sense of ...

My friends Rick and Emily traveled to Croatia. They very kindly brought me a tube of Kalodont Pink Clay Clean Beauty toothpaste! I often start with Wikipedia to inform my toothpaste reviews. In this case, they delivered : "Kalodont was first sold in Austria-Hungary in 1887. It later became widely distributed in 34 other countries and obtained a near-monopoly status that caused the word "kalodont" to become synonymous with the word for "tooth paste" in South Slavic languages. Kalodont ceased to be produced in 1981, but returned on the market in 2012." So wow, this is a modern relative to one of the first toothpastes! Today, Kalodont is made by Saponia , a Hungary-based company that makes everything from Arf , a disinfectant cleaner ... to Nila My Cute Baby wet wipes. Hungary is conveniently next to Croatia. I suspect that there is more industry in Hungary than in Croatia.  Saponia's description of this pink clay toothpaste includes, "it promotes r...