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Making Toothpaste Last Longer

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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 Tooth Salt Review

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 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 ...