International Toothpaste Museum

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...

This review is an illustration of how busy I get... My friend Mike brought this lovely tube of Yunnan Baiyo over from Beijing, China in April. It's now mid-October, and I'm finally getting time to write about this toothpaste. It's a clean white paste with very straight-ahead minty flavor. The packaging is 99% in Chinese, which is one of my favorite things - it's not produced for export. Google Translate did its action on the box's interior text and let me know that it stops bleeding and heals wounds. I haven't had much bleeding of my gums, thankfully. But if I did, this might be helpful. Google search yielded this : "Yunnan Baiyao (also known as Yunnan Paiyao) is a Chinese herbal mixture consisting primarily of notoginseng that has become a popular product among veterinary clients." And I love the package's illustrations of teeth in various states of distress... Thank you, Mike! You enriched my life - and my teeth. Maybe someday I will get to visit...

Of all the kinds of toothpaste I've reviewed, МЯTHAЯ toothpaste by весна completely eluded all of my attempts to find information. My friend Ben very kindly brought it over from East Asia. He often travels to a country where you can buy Russian products. Their very slow-loading website  did not provide any information about this toothpaste. It is briefly listed on page 19 of their product catalog PDF , which took about three minutes to load. (And it was fun to see some English branding - one of their line of products for kids is called "Crazy Zoo.") Like most toothpastes outside the USA, the package was very multi-lingual. If you speak Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani or Uzbek, you're in luck. English, no. The entire box and tube did not have a single word of English! Since I do not speak Russian, I am running blind. But I can tell you about the taste. It's very clean. There's a strong flavor of mint but not in the traditional North American minty vein. It tastes s...