I'm looking for someone to make me some soap for teeth cleaning.
Currently buying from the US but would prefer to buy home-grown.
I usually buy 1kg at a time.

Dental soap?  How interesting.  I've not heard of this but would love to learn a bit more peaches    Welcome BTW 

Same here!

What can I tell you, it's soap and I clean my teeth with it!
I grate it up like cheese, put a shred on a molar, bite down and brush away.
I should add that I only use peppermint and nothing floral and I have instructions from my current supplier on how to make it.
I will never go back to using toothpaste and neither would you if you investigated the poisons it contains!

I've read about this on the US forum but never tried or investigated how to make it. I know there are a lot of parabens in toothpaste but what else?

Hi Peaches
is the dental soap soft? or hard? and does it taste soapy? have never heard of it before u c 

It's soft but goes hard if I leave the lid off the jar overnight, still useable though.
Yes it is soapy - it is soap after all!
There's no mystery here - it's just 100% natural soap with peppermint essential oil.

I read about it too on another forum, would like to try it myself.  If you have the recipe someone can make it up, what do the ingredients look like before I commit myself to making anything 

The ingredients are olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, and peppermint essential oil.
It mustn't be superfatted or have glycerin added.

lol....  You have to forgive us here peaches, most of us find the thought of the tongue zap test a bit icky.  Would it have the same consistency of say shaving soap?    

Out of interest, (to the group as a whole really), would a different SA be required for dental products to that of topical application?  Anyone know??

From what I can see its just regular soap (olive coconut & palm) with EO and although I haven't read the entire thread of 17 pages, it would seem to be fairly simple. Is there any abrasive element to it?
Also you say it is in shreds, what are the benefits of that over say a small bar? Possibly hygiene?

Reason #1:

Toothpaste Contains Fluoride. Fluoride is a severe biological poison. Being intensely negative, it unlatches positive hydrogen bonds in enzymes and proteins. In the USA there are mandatory warnings like this on tubes of toothpaste:
"WARNING: Keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age. If you accidentally swallow more than is used for brushing, seek professional help or contact a poison control center immediately."

This is due to lawsuits in which children were poisoned by fluoride-containing toothpaste. For instance, Keith Cantor, a little boy who lived in McMinnville, Oregon died in the dentist’s chair from ingesting ½ teaspoon of fluoride, and 3 kidney dialysis patients were killed in 1998 at the University of Chicago Medical School, when nurses used unpurified Chicago tap water for dialysis.

A mine of information can be found at www.fluoridealert.org
 

Reason #2:

Toothpaste Prevents Tooth Re-enamelization.

The main ingredient in toothpaste is viscous, sticky glycerine, which coats the teeth and prevents re-enamelization from nutrients in the diet. Glycerine takes over 20 rinses to be removed and leaves your teeth coated!
 

Sceptical? Try this simple test. Start with a clean sink and smear some of your toothpaste on the sink. Rinse it off and watch how the water beads up because of the sticky glycerine. You will have to keep rinsing and rinsing to remove it! Your teeth are similar to a porcelain sink, and your teeth are being coated every time you use toothpaste. Coated teeth cannot re-enamelize from nutrients in the diet!

 

Reason #3:

Toothpaste Contains Silica.

Silica, which is sand, can harm gums and is abrasive to tooth enamel.

Even ‘natural’ toothpastes contain silica and glycerine!

 

What Is the Solution for Healthier Teeth and Gums?

How you care for your mouth determines the health of your teeth and gums. Use soap to clean your teeth because soap is an excellent detergent, mixing insoluble oils on the tongue, inner cheek and teeth with the water and rinsing it away. Teeth that are cleaned and rinsed using bar soap are far cleaner than those cleaned with toothpaste, which contains sugar, acid, chalk, silicates (sand), fluoride, methyl benzoate (for a cool mouth feel) dyes, stabilizers, mixing agents and other contaminating chemicals.

These badly contaminate the teeth and prevent good enamelization.

 

Any soap won't do. The soap must be free of impurities.


According to Dr. Gerald Judd, PhD (professor, chemist, researcher and author of ‘Good Teeth Birth To Death):

“Re-enamelisation of the teeth occurs when they are clean. All toothpastes make a barrier of glycerine on the teeth, which would require 20 rinses to get it off. A good solution for clean teeth is Dental Soap. All oils are washed off the teeth and the gums are disinfected. The bacteria are killed by the dental soap. The teeth are then ready for re-enamelisation with calcium and phosphate in the diet.”

Hi Corrie
Yes it's only for hygiene reasons but the bar is handy for small children as they just rub the wet toothbrush on it.
I would chop it into chunks rather than use the whole bar for this.
It's really handy for travelling too - just put a few shreds in a tiny zip lock bag - good for washing your hands when out and about too if you don't like the nasty chemical liquids found in public toliets.

The glycerine bit is interesting.
By its nature handmade soap retains its naturally forming glycerine, commercial soaps generally remove the glycerine.
So how does that "wash"?
How much glycerine is bad for your teeth?

yea, don't add any castor oil  :mwaha: (sorry lil bit of soapy humour)