Wait a sec- toothapste isn't vegan!?!?!?
Posted by beccalynn77 on May 23, 2007 · Member since Mar 2007 · 238 posts
OK Thatsa first for me!!! I was lookingon beans and greens post about transitioning to vegan and someone said like " I oculdn't bea vegan cuzI couldn't even brush my teeth..." Orsomething along those lines. So whats theingredient in tooth paste that nakes i non vegan?
I have noticed that in Brazil things can be vegan unlike the states. For instance, sugar is just sugar and nothing else. Flour too... Its weird haha
Anything can be unvegan depending on what is added to it or what processing it go through. Varying from brand to brand as well.
Some kinds of toothpaste may or may not be vegan. Flouride is something some people avoid (I do)
Here's what our dentist told us recently about toothpaste FYI:
Toothpaste is not needed, and worse even gives a "false sense of cleanliness" due to the minty fresh flavoring. Brushing without toothpaste is perfectly fine. In fact you may find you brush for a longer amount of time that way! Which is better!
OK rewind again LOL sry!!!!
whatsa matter with fluoride?
OH sorry... there is nothing UNvegan about fluoride....
I always do this... I'm sure it's annoying. There are some ingredients and chemicals that I avoid... vegan or not becuz of health factors. I'm always ranting about high fructose corn syrup on here and i have mistakenly made others think that i was avoiding it becuz it wasn't vegan... it is, in fact, vegan... just bad for you.
Fluoride:
Medical grade fluoride is probably fine but that's not the fluoride that is in our products and water.
The fluoride that is added to many(most) US city water supplies and to toothpaste is a industrial smoke stack by-prouct (yeah, they actually filter it and scrape it out of smoke stacks) and has actually never been tested on humans.
Icky enough for me to get fluoride free toothpaste... or not use toothpaste at all. :)
people always forget that toothpaste is only a recent invention and that people managed to clean their teeth for millenia before someone decided to market a sweet minty paste for it. in india, people use a twig from a tree (no idea what the english name is) to floss and scrape their tongues, and then chew on it to clean the teeth, and many other cultures use baking soda, as well as other methods of scraping the tongue and teeth.
fluoride is a contriversal chemical added to water and toothpaste to strengthen teeth and bones. like many other chemicals, it's possibly harmful in large quantities (which, if you use both flouride toothpaste and drink municipal water, you might be getting) and its supposed benefits were based off of possibly incorrect or misinterpreted studies done a few decades ago... aka the studies showing that dairy strengthens bone by adding calcium, whereas in actual fact it might be true that it leaches calcium from bones. just one of those random health risks that have gotten lost in the beaucracy of modern life.
i'm not sure about toothpaste being vegan or not, but seeing how you could easily use a little baking soda on a toothbrush to replace it, i'm thinking that girl was probably full of b u l l s h i t.
The most common non-vegan ingredient in commercial toothpastes is glycerine. Glycerine is sweet and slippery/moist. It is made from animal fat - when they add the lye to animal fat to make soap, glycerine is the clear, sweet, slippery runoff. They use it in everything from toothpaste to fruit-and-cereal bars to candy bars. :P
I did some research a while back and found that beef tallow is an ingredient in Sensodyne. WTF! That is just Yuck.
The most common non-vegan ingredient in commercial toothpastes is glycerine. Glycerine is sweet and slippery/moist. It is made from animal fat - when they add the lye to animal fat to make soap, glycerine is the clear, sweet, slippery runoff. They use it in everything from toothpaste to fruit-and-cereal bars to candy bars. :P
Just to be clear, there is such a thing as vegetable glycerine, and many vegan products use it:
http://www.botanical.com/products/learn/vegetable-glycerine.html
Here's what our dentist told us recently about toothpaste FYI:
Toothpaste is not needed, and worse even gives a "false sense of cleanliness" due to the minty fresh flavoring. Brushing without toothpaste is perfectly fine. In fact you may find you brush for a longer amount of time that way! Which is better!
I have been told by a dentist that just wet-brushing your teeth for about 2 minutes is fine. Cheaper too! There is so much mint oil in the cheaper brand of toothpaste they sell here, that I have to buy pharmacy TP if I want the minty-fresh thing--and at $4 a tube (ok, it's a big tube, but still) that gets mouldy.
Just realised what TP is usually the abbreviation for--don't care, not gonna edit it. ;) Night, all.
My landlady in Russia had "seashell flavored" toothpaste. At least that is what I discerned it was from the label and I have always thought it was so odd... what exactly does it taste like?? Salt and sand?? ??? Now I wish I had tasted some...
Here's what our dentist told us recently about toothpaste FYI:
Toothpaste is not needed, and worse even gives a "false sense of cleanliness" due to the minty fresh flavoring. Brushing without toothpaste is perfectly fine. In fact you may find you brush for a longer amount of time that way! Which is better!
I have been told by a dentist that just wet-brushing your teeth for about 2 minutes is fine. Cheaper too! There is so much mint oil in the cheaper brand of toothpaste they sell here, that I have to buy pharmacy TP if I want the minty-fresh thing--and at $4 a tube (ok, it's a big tube, but still) that gets mouldy.
Just realised what TP is usually the abbreviation for--don't care, not gonna edit it. ;) Night, all.
;D I just assumed you had to buy pharmacy-brand toilet paper to compensate for your expensive toothpaste purchases!
When I was living in Switzerland there was bright green/blue toilet paper at the local grocery store and the first time I read the packaging I thought it said that it was flavoured instead of just coloured! Eeeew! :o
When I was living in Switzerland there was bright green/blue toilet paper at the local grocery store and the first time I read the packaging I thought it said that it was flavoured instead of just coloured! Eeeew! :o
ahhhhhahahahahahah ;D YUMMY!!!
The most common non-vegan ingredient in commercial toothpastes is glycerine. Glycerine is sweet and slippery/moist. It is made from animal fat - when they add the lye to animal fat to make soap, glycerine is the clear, sweet, slippery runoff. They use it in everything from toothpaste to fruit-and-cereal bars to candy bars. :P
Just to be clear, there is such a thing as vegetable glycerine, and many vegan products use it:
http://www.botanical.com/products/learn/vegetable-glycerine.html
Thanks for the clarification - sorry for failing to mention that.
mostly, it's not the ingredients in toothpaste that make it not vegan...it's that some brands are tested on animals
When I was living in Switzerland there was bright green/blue toilet paper at the local grocery store and the first time I read the packaging I thought it said that it was flavoured instead of just coloured! Eeeew! :o
Surely they meant scented?? Who eats TP?? Now as a child I used to snarf samples of Fuller Brush Toothpaste (maybe that's why I have such good teeth?) but I can not imagine chowing down on Toilet Paper!! :o
They did mean scented! Sometimes I just have issues reading! ;) The thought does boggle the mind though... if it were flavoured, you'd have to ask when it was meant to be eaten!!!
ooo k I see, well i wentand looked on my tube of colgate 12 hour whitening toothapste, and it did not have glycerine or whatever, but it did have sodium fluoride- so my toothapste i sok right? I'd hate to be cleaning myself with something that an animal got hurt from, seems sorta messed up.
This thread is reminding me a of a tv show I saw- It was an episode of this cartoon called Futurama. The main characters win a trip to this Willy Wonka style soda factory. The soda is called Slurm & is highly addictive & delicious. Anyway, the characters sneak into the secret portion of the factory & discover that the soda is actually slime from a giant queen worm. When they act all grossed out, she says, "Why do you care that Slurm comes from my behind? Honey is from a bee's behind, milk is from a cows behind, and toothpaste- you don't want to know who's behind that comes from!!!" ;D
I did some research a while back and found that beef tallow is an ingredient in Sensodyne. WTF! That is just Yuck.
arg... why do they do that... >:( I could have guessed there was something yucky/unvegan about sensodyne but that's pretty gross.
K^2 adds new toothpaste to the shopping list...
in india, people use a twig from a tree (no idea what the english name is) to floss and scrape their tongues
Neem?
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