Raw City Life ~ live raw, live well! » cavities http://rawcitylife.com Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:27:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Healthy Teeth and Gums 2 http://rawcitylife.com/healthy-teeth-and-gums-2 http://rawcitylife.com/healthy-teeth-and-gums-2#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 09:30:09 +0000 Julie http://rawcitylife.com/?p=271 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> healthy teethVictoria Van Cleef, creator of ToothSoap, quotes often from a book by Weston Price, DDS , Nutritional and Physical Degeneration and an out of print book by Dr. Judd, Good Teeth, Birth to Death. Dr. Judd says to use pure and natural soap to clean the teeth. Toothpaste has abrasives and glycerin – glycerin coats the tooth and prevents enamel regrowth.Victoria developed ToothSoap so her family would have healthy teeth.

It’s a liquid in a glass bottle with a glass dropper. Put a few drops on a soft wet toothbrush (never use a hard toothbrush) or drop it right into your mouth. It is quite nice! Very foamy, it’s light. There are a lot of flavors – I got cinnamon. Yes it does have a very slight soapy taste – but if I don’t get it on the back of my tongue, I don’t taste the soapy taste. I used to always brush my tongue after my teeth – don’t do that now so as not to get the soapy taste on the back taste buds – I use a tongue scraper now. Also, on the website it says a bottle lasts a person 4-6 weeks – I’ll keep you updated on that, I think it will last longer – it only takes a few drops at a time.

(UPDATE: It’s now Nov. 10, I am just now using the last of my bottle. I have no idea why they say the bottle lasts a month – mine lasted 5 months and I brush at least twice a day and use about 1/2″ or less of the dropper of Tooth Soap. Perhaps they mean one bottle per family. )

Since Dr. Judd recommended pure and natural soap – I thought I’d give it a try since I make my own pure and natural soap (click to see the book I talk about at the bottom of that post if you want an easy how-to on soap making). So I rubbed a wet toothbrush across a bar of my homemade soap and brushed my teeth. Never thought I’d be doing that. It was not bad! It was light and foamy and wasn’t very soapy tasting (again keeping if off of the back of my tongue). I will definitely use this when I travel instead of bringing the glass bottle.

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 Somewhere in there marketing material they say that ToothSoap has the proper pH balance for the teeth. So I pull out my pH testing strips and start testing. ToothSoap is 8+ alkaline. I test my homemade soap – same thing, strip turns dark purple. I wondered if this was just marketing fluff and figured all soap is alkaline. Then realized I didn’t test my toothpaste. The toothpaste is acid at about 6.0 – 6.2.
Alkaline: good….Acid: bad.

1. Try ToothSoap or try a bar of natural soap.

2. Use only soft bristle tooth brushes.

3. Eat more greens and other alkaline plant based foods to remineralize your teeth.

4. Rinse your mouth out after eating acid foods (like meat, potatoes, grains) if you can’t brush right away.

PS: I didn’t really throw out my old toothpaste – I put it under my kitchen sink to use as a sink/chrome cleaner as well as a silver and jewelry polish. Works great on silver chains with a toothbrush!

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]]> http://rawcitylife.com/healthy-teeth-and-gums-2/feed 2 Healthy Teeth and Gums http://rawcitylife.com/healthy-teeth-and-gums http://rawcitylife.com/healthy-teeth-and-gums#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 09:00:53 +0000 Julie http://rawcitylife.com/?p=258 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> brushing teeth A basic premise of the raw vegan lifestyle is to allow the body to be in its natural state of vibrant health – proper balance and digestion allows the body to heal itself when necessary.The same goes for our teeth. Too often people accept that cavities, root canals and lost teeth are a normal part of growing up and aging. They also think fluoride is good for your teeth. If this is normal, why do we see archaeologists dig up ancient human skulls with a full set of beautiful teeth intact?Our teeth and bones are alive! The Standard American Diet (SAD) is acid producing and this leeches calcium from the bone and teeth to neutralize the acid. A plant based diet is of course, alkaline – producing strong healthy teeth.I have not used toothpaste containing fluoride for many years and I haven’t developed any cavities. Last week I threw out my “natural” toothpaste and started using ToothSoap. (toothsoap.com) They have a promotion where you get 2 bottles of liquid toothsoap and a little 70 page book The Perfect Prescription for Your Teeth – Three Simple Steps to Perfect Teeth and Gums All the Days of Your Life (long title for a tiny book) – it is a really good book, I keep lending it out! 

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