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.

Dr. Rudolph's 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 taste is not refined enough to perceive that addition.

tAK is a Belgian vegan retailer that has a page devoted to Dr. Rudolph's tooth cleanser: the product has "a very high concentration of minerals. We need these to activate vitamins and remove waste products."

Sounds - and tastes - good to me!


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