This is one of those things I have been saying I wanted to make for a long time. Well finally about 6 weeks ago I made some that we actually like. My next attempt will be to make it just a powder, so no glycerin. Working the hubby into that one. So here is the recipe we are currently using, and we both like it.
1/4 cup & 2 Tbsp of Baking soda
1 1/2 Tbsp of xylitol-very good for your teeth I got mine off amazon
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup glycerin
15-20 drops of peppermint essential oil
mix it all together and put in a covered container. We have ours in a little honey pot and we use the honey dipper thing to put it on our toothbrush.
You may be asking yourself "what is wrong with normal toothpaste?" Well lets just say there is a lot of chemicals in toothpaste that aren't so good to have in direct contact with a mucus membrane, your mouth for instance. Glycerin is the worst thing in this recipe for you teeth, thus why I want to try and eliminate it. But for us this was a good step down recipe so to speak. It more so looks like toothpaste, more so than tooth powder. So my next batch will be powder and we'll see how the hubby likes that.
Shanda
