With the same logic, you can put Colgate Total on a potatoe. However, I don't recommend any 'drug' for anyone or thing outside of its intended purpose. Dogs don't know that you cant eat it.

*This is not a replacement for profesional advice. Any answer comes as is, and you should talk to a professional before taking any further action.

Absolutely positive that it is. It is also worth noting that this is not a surprise given it is made by Glaxo Smith-Kline- oneof thebiggest companies to test on animals in the world. Look at the small writing ont he back and if made by GSK, do not buy. It HAS been teste don animals.

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toothpaste contains a lot of elements like calcium,fluorine,nitrate,etc.we can determine the various elements through qualitative analysis.yes,toothpaste is a compound.

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Just to answer your question re baking soda ,and teeth....it`s a natural known cleaner ,and can help to keep your teeth(or false ones) clean..

Just mix to a smooth paste ,and brush as you would with a regular tooth paste..

ensure you rinse thoroughly after....hope this helps??

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is always decomposing to release oxygen and water, but it does so slowly. In elephant toothpaste, the hydrogen peroxide is mixed with detergent and food color and then saturated iodide solution is added. The iodide acts as a catalyst so that the H2O2 breaks down really quickly. All the gas bubbles released makes the detergent bubble up suddenly.

don't know why, or why I hadn't before, but the other day I read the back of my wrinkly tube of toothpaste.

As if I don't already suffer enough anxiety, I found these words: "Do not swallow."

Nearby was a warning to keep the tube away from children under 6. It got worse: "If more than used for brushing is accidentally swallowed, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away."

Words like "poison" and "do not swallow" do not belong on the label of anything you put in your mouth even once a day.

But there they were, on my Arm & Hammer, on a tube of Colgate in my travel case, on my husband's "natural" Tom's of Maine. When I visited my local drugstore, I found similar words -- including the P word -- on every brand I checked.

What the hell?

One friend guessed too much toothpaste might "plug you up like concrete," so that evening before bed I squeezed a tablespoon onto my finger and ate it. Its powerful minty taste made me gag, but it didn't kill me overnight or slow any of my natural functions.

I considered eating a spoonful every day for a month, just to see. Instead I called the 800 number on the tube, where I learned the warning, required by the FDA, had to do with just one toothpaste ingredient -- fluoride.

So what's the problem?

"It's not meant to be ingested," Tonya in Arm & Hammer customer service told me. "It's just supposed to be put on the teeth to help with strengthening."

So what happens if you ingest too much?

"I honestly don't know," she said, "but I've heard some people say they squeeze the toothpaste straight from the tube into their mouths as they leave the house, and that's not the purpose of the product."

Prowling the Internet, I found alarming claims about fluoride: that it's up there with arsenic and lead in toxicity, that half a tube of toothpaste can kill a child, that it's linked to attention deficit disorder, to Alzheimer's disease, to bone cancer and arthritis. I learned that Grand Rapids in 1950 was the first city in America to fluoridate its water, and that now about two-thirds of Americans drink fluoridated water.

Only 2 percent of Europeans do, because scientists there consider the chemical too dangerous to spread around.

I spoke with Christopher Bryson, an award-winning investigative journalist who a year ago published "The Fluoride Deception" ($24.95, Seven Stories Press). He told me optimal fluoridation levels of 1 part per million scare him, since research has found dramatic toxic effects in animals consuming 5 parts per million.

He uses a fluoride filter on his home tap in New York City. As for fluoridated toothpaste, he said, "I think about what my 2-year-old son is looking to do, so I don't keep the stuff in my house."

It's a lot to swallow

At Poison Control's national number -- 800-222-1222 -- I found Susan Smolinske, a pharmacist at Children's Hospital of Michigan. She said a 22-pound child would have to eat an ounce of fluoridated toothpaste to get an upset stomach. She vaguely remembers one case of a seizure in a child who ate too much, but said acute fluoride poisoning from toothpaste isn't as troubling as chronic exposure.

You should worry, she said, "if you have a child who every day eats a couple teaspoons." That can cause severe bone and other problems.

Then she told me, "If you drink fluoridated water, you don't even need toothpaste. It's more important to brush your teeth than to brush them with toothpaste."

I never knew that. I'm happy I now do, and I'm glad I read my tube, which is now in the trash.

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Toxins in Toothpaste

Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES)- (in many personal care products and many shampoos) Both SLS and SLES are potential carcinogens and may form dioxane when interacting with other chemicals. Clinical studies show both of these chemicals causing hair loss. Fluoride : One of the most common ways fluoride is made is by filtering airborne industrial waste given off by fertilizer producers. Saccharin : An artificial sweetener used in toothpaste, mouthwash and lipstick. Lab rats developed bladder cancer after being given this substance in high doses. The FDA still lists it as a possible carcinogen. Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) : SLS is used as a detergent and helps make the toothpaste foam. It is a known skin irritant and some people are very allergic to this chemical. SLS is believed to cause or aggravate canker sores in those prone to such irritations. Well-known as a skin and scalp irritant, easily absorbed in eyes, brain, and liver … may have harmful long term effects, possible carcinogen, could retard healing … causes cataracts in adults and keeps children's eyes from developing properly.

Yes..If a tooth paste contains loads of abrasives it can go bad...I mean it can abrade the tooth surface. Also some components of tooth paste can be allergic to susceptible persons.....

If used twice a day properly, within two weeks there should be some noticeable de-sensitivity to hot/cold stuff...

some do but not all

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i think wal mart have it

It would be obvious that a toothpaste with its soapy texture, it is a basic or alkaline substance.0-7 is regarded acidic, whilst 7-14 is basic, or alkaline. 7 is ofcourse neutral pH. Bases have a soapy feel, such as toothpaste, and acids have a sour, sharp, bitter taste, such as lemon juice (citric acid). So with that understanding i would say basic. Yet that's what i think, i only do chemistry.)

yes colgate uses the carrageenan in allmost all tooth paste as a thikning agent