How To Use Essential Oils For Your Teeth
Non-Fluoride "Toothpaste"
We stopped using fluoride toothpaste for almost 10 years now. Every time we have our dental cleaning, we always refuse to get the fluoride dose.
I'm not going to preach about it here but you should look into the effects of fluoride on your brain.
You can throw a lot of articles debunking fluoride or you can also find articles that are pro-fluoride. It's up to you to decide.
The Recipe
It's been a while since I made a batch of our oil-based teeth cleaner. I made a batch but didn't take a video so I'm posting a previous recording I made.
You are going to need a glass container with dropper lid. Make sure the oil doesn't get into the rubber for the dropper. We found out over time that the oil makes the bulb swell up and then your dropper is toast. Or you can just use your empty essential oil bottle.
Mix these three ingredients and you have yourself some potent mouthwash, breath freshener and oil-based teeth cleaner.
You can adjust the mintiness, below is just how we tweaked our Ora-MD copycat.
Ingredients
75% almond oil
14% spearmint oil
11% peppermint oil
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OraMD is what we used before until we decided to make our own.
OraMD 3 pack extra strength
Oil ingredients:
NOW almond oil
NOW spearmint
NOW peppermint
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Hmm I have read about a lot of things on the effects of fluoride especially in the drinking water.
The oil is interesting though.
We have lots of oil and we haven't even started really using them. I have an ebook of wonderfulness about these oils and ways to use them.
But this teeth cleaner is by far our most used one since we don't use toothpaste. We also use it to gargle with and so you have you a homemade Listerine.
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Thank you!
I love my EO's. My favorite book is The Complete Book of Essential Oils for Mama & Baby by Christine Anthis. She offers a more conservative approach. There are certain oils she recommends not using on children under the age of 3, or 6 or even 10. IT really changed my "Potion Cabinet" as my family likes to call it. I recommend it highly. The author also has a very informative blog, The Hippy Homemaker.
And yeah, fluoride is nasty stuff. Good call mama! Cheers!