Healthy Teeth and Gums 2

Julie — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:30:09 +0000

Victoria 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.

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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