Making toothpaste

Today my mum showed me how to make toothpaste. She laid a dishcloth out on the kitchen counter to prevent it from getting it messy, and my sister and I poured and stirred the ingredients. All we needed was some vegetable glycerine, orange flavour essential oil and bentonite clay. 


Bentonite clay is a sediment of volcanic ash and is good for absorbing toxins. Glycerine also has healing qualities but vegetable glycerine is safer because it is a better grad.


We mixed the glycerine and clay in a little brown jar till it got to the right consistency. Then, we added about two drops of the essential oil to the mixture and stirred some more. After that, we tried the toothpaste out. It was very grainy from the clay, and the vegetable glycerine made it a warm kind of sweet. I hadn't ever tried orange flavour toothpaste before today, so it was a nice change from the ordinary mint.

Even though it isn't cheaper to make toothpaste yourself, it is better than buying it because you know what the ingredients are and you don't have to have toothpaste with chemicals in it if you don't want to. It is also good because you can make up your own flavours.