Do You Brush Your Teeth The European Way?
Do You Brush Your Teeth The European Way?
I brush my teeth the British way, every time a new Monarch is crowned.
Wow you will have brushed twice in your life time!
Fyi, Elmex is owned by Colgate!
I have recently switched to basic parodontax toothpaste because of a previous advice from this community, and I am really happy about my decision 😁 The toothpaste is not runny, it doesn't over-foam, and seems to have improved my gum/teeth health.
I'm currently still using my stash of australian HiSmile, don't really have an EU alternative for this and I never want to go back to minty toothpaste
Huh, I thought Sensodyne was an American company, but GSK spun it off with Haleon in 2022 to become a UK company.
I'd argue that doesn't make it much better, but if you have sensitive teeth, you do what you gotta do.
Compared to the USA, the UK are a picture-perfect democracy. The UK isn't even much worse than most big EU countries.
I wasn't commenting on the relative merits of the UK vs the US, but rather the nebulous distinction between international conglomerations that exist to satisfy regulatory requirements. But I can see how that wasn't clear at all.
The UK is starting to get weird. Their PM recently blamed bats for the lack of housing (spoiler: there is enough housing, but there isn't enough affordable housing).
Jordan is Scandinavian 👍🏻
No, Jordan is Middle Eastern
What do you mean? https://www.jordanoralcare.com/
I do it the healthy way
From Denmark and without bs like the mentioned in the threads picture
Can you explain why this brand should be more healthy than other toothpaste? And clarify if it is "more healthy" or if other toothpastes are "not healthy"?
According to Yuka (a food and cosmetics rating system), most brands listed in the OP image do not have a good rating. There are two moderate risk ingredients : Sodium Laurel Sulfate (listed as an irritant and an allergen, present in Botot, some Colgate products,, OralB, some sensodyne products and some paradontax products) and Titanium dioxide (listed as potential carcinogen, present in some paradontax and some oral-B, I think it's for teeth whitening). Having a "Moderate risk" ingredient means your score cannot be better than "Poor".
The app also lists other potential allergens that are "Low risk" and present in most most products across brands (there are sometimes differences within the same brand). If a product only has low risk ingredients, its rating is usually "Good" or "Excellent".
I couldn't find exactly the pictured product, but this danish brand has an "Excellent" rating on all of its products, not a full score because it includes some of the Low Risk allergens. The best rated products are actually from Elmex.
Of course this is just one arbitrary rating system, but it's quite transparent and you can get all the details for risk for each ingredient, backed by scientific literature. Also the app is free if you want to scan barcodes :)
Anything that satisfies the strict EU regulations for "toothpaste" is healthy.
Rossmann. 79 cents, including their sensitive toothpaste.
Anyone can recommend a good, thin floss? Trying to replace Oral B.
Using Lacer in Spain :)
I'm brushing the asian way with miswak
Lacalut and Dentalux are German, Plidenta is Croatian.
I have to use sensodyne ...