As part of my general routine to shed chemicals where I can from my life, I don’t use a lot of conventional personal care products. This includes deodorant, perfumes and fragrances, most makeup, shampoos, body washes and of course conventional flouride toothpaste. Instead I make most of these products myself from more natural ingredients as the need arises and sometimes use alternatives which contain less chemicals.
I’ve had some cavities that have been creeping up on the back of my upper front teeth for the last few years. It’s affected my smile and is at this point 100% a cosmetic dentistry thing. I probably will go into a dentist eventually, hopefully a good very basic one in either Mexico or Thailand, to get them looked at. I want to keep all of my teeth in their natural state for as long as possible, so no veneers, implants or other real expensive fake stuff. In the meantime I’ve been researching changing the Thailand bought tooth powder I was using to brush my teeth with something that stems the damage and possibly remineralizes my teeth.
A lot of trial and error has ensued. Tooth powers often contain baking soda and activated charcoal, both of which do have cleansing and whitening properties but seemed to be to abrasive and hurting the dentene in the long run.I read about gummies that might be able to change the bacterial flora in my mouth and help with remineralization. They were too expensive for me.
But for over a week I have been using a tooth powder I ground up myself which contains exactly two ingredients which seems to be doing wonders. Here are the two ingredients:
For those who don’t know these are dried out quail eggshells and dried out tangerine peels. I simply ground them together in a pok pok into a fine powder. I use quail eggshells, the raw eggs for which can be bought at many Asian food markets, because white chicken eggshells in the USA are usually bleached white and may contain other chemicals. This is for remineralization of teeth. The tangerine peels have whitening and breath freshining qualities, though they have to be very dried out to ground up properly.
That’s it. I just have been using this powder to brush my teeth with. I am already noticing results:
I just figured I’d share. Greetings from currently still in Las Vegas. The flowers are in full bloom (three rosebushes, oleander, globemallow, pomegranite) and I am pretty sure our front yard is winning the competition for the biggest forest in the desert:
Do you believe there are natural solutions to most health problems? I figure it’s worth a shot!
Last year I started to make my own toothpowder using 5 ingredients: bentonite clay, calcium carbonate, baking soda, cloves, cinnamon, and I really like it. Intrigued to try your even more simple recipe of 2 ingredients.
I am just about to make a long distance move, but will 100% be trying your recipe in the not too distant future!! Thank U so much for sharing 🥰🥰💜💜☯️☯️🧿🧿🔥🔥