Homemade Toothpaste


By making your own toothpaste you can not only save landfill waste you will also avoid using chemicals such as Sodium Fluoride, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and Glycerin which is normally a palm oil derivative.
Here's how I made my homemade toothpaste:
Ingredients
6.5  tbsp coconut oil, organic virgin is best
2 tbsp bicarbonate of soda
Xylitol to taste - Xylitol is an all-natural alternative to sugar. You could use stevia instead.
Three curly mint leafs
I added the coconut oil, bicarbonate of soda into my stainless steel tin.

Then added the Xylitol to taste and mixed well.

I heated the mixture through in a pan with some curly mint leafs I had in my garden. Most recipes use essential oil but I didn't want to ingest this so I used mint leaves instead. You could also try grating some orange peel. Although you do not have to use a flavouring at all.
Then I removed the leaves and placed the toothpaste back into the tin and allowed to cool.

You need to get used to this new taste but it does give me a clean mouth feel, so thumbs up. Why don't you give it a go...
You can find these biodegradable bamboo toothbrushes here the stainless steel tin here and the bamboo tablespoon here.

You can also purchase a natural toothpaste here.