OK, but note that if you use just one drop of Dr Bronner’s and take a few seconds at the beginning to spread the soap around all four quadrants, the main sensation is sudsiness or foaminess rather than any taste of soap.
Thought-provoking questions. This is my first toothpaste review, but here goes:
Colour: Opaque white
Nose: mint, xylitol
Palate: Something between a paste and a gel, fading to insubstantial and slightly foamy
Taste: Peppermint and wintergreen fades to xylitol, a hint of fennel, and some lingering bitterness.
Finish: N/A, spat into sink.
Thoughts: None of the harsh, palate-scouring astringent acidity of Colgate or other conventional toothpastes. Very little “inedible chemical” impression, although that could be muted if you’re not familiar with xylitol.
Rating: 90⁄100
I accidentally bought a dozen of them on Amazon instead of the one I’d intended on, and only managed to give away six to local friends, so I’d be happy to mail a tube to up to 3 of the dentally dissatisfied here (but it’s the fluoridated version).
I use Tom’s of Maine Wintergreen Fluoride-free toothpaste (okay, dentifrice), which sounds almost exactly like what you are describing. It sells in Walmart for about the same price as “regular” toothpastes. I really only buy it because I think that for general consumers in the USA, extra fluoride is unnecessary, so I rebel by buying the only locally available commercial alternative. Anyway, as an additional point to your description of the flavor which probably follows with Squigle too, it tastes “duller” than Colgate, Crest, etc., much like the difference between say, a Diet Coke and Coke Classic. At first it was unpleasant because that’s not how my brain thinks toothpaste is supposed to taste, but neuroplasticity saved the day. I don’t attribute any special benefit to the toothpaste itself, but I brush only once a day and haven’t been to a dentist in the past fifteen years or so, so if I have cavities, they’re not bad enough to call attention to themselves.
OK, but note that if you use just one drop of Dr Bronner’s and take a few seconds at the beginning to spread the soap around all four quadrants, the main sensation is sudsiness or foaminess rather than any taste of soap.
Also, is it chalky like almost all toothpastes?
Thought-provoking questions. This is my first toothpaste review, but here goes:
Colour: Opaque white
Nose: mint, xylitol
Palate: Something between a paste and a gel, fading to insubstantial and slightly foamy
Taste: Peppermint and wintergreen fades to xylitol, a hint of fennel, and some lingering bitterness.
Finish: N/A, spat into sink.
Thoughts: None of the harsh, palate-scouring astringent acidity of Colgate or other conventional toothpastes. Very little “inedible chemical” impression, although that could be muted if you’re not familiar with xylitol.
Rating: 90⁄100
I accidentally bought a dozen of them on Amazon instead of the one I’d intended on, and only managed to give away six to local friends, so I’d be happy to mail a tube to up to 3 of the dentally dissatisfied here (but it’s the fluoridated version).
I use Tom’s of Maine Wintergreen Fluoride-free toothpaste (okay, dentifrice), which sounds almost exactly like what you are describing. It sells in Walmart for about the same price as “regular” toothpastes. I really only buy it because I think that for general consumers in the USA, extra fluoride is unnecessary, so I rebel by buying the only locally available commercial alternative. Anyway, as an additional point to your description of the flavor which probably follows with Squigle too, it tastes “duller” than Colgate, Crest, etc., much like the difference between say, a Diet Coke and Coke Classic. At first it was unpleasant because that’s not how my brain thinks toothpaste is supposed to taste, but neuroplasticity saved the day. I don’t attribute any special benefit to the toothpaste itself, but I brush only once a day and haven’t been to a dentist in the past fifteen years or so, so if I have cavities, they’re not bad enough to call attention to themselves.