How to Make Your Own Toothpaste

There's good reason to be concerned about the ingredients in most commercial toothpastes. Recent studies have called into question the safety of such ingredients as sodium lauryl sulfate and fluoride. Plus, it's so quick and easy to make your own toothpaste and it's far easier on the pocketbook. Here's how.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• baking soda
• glycerin
• distilled water
• essential oil of your choice for flavoring

1. Gather your supplies.
   
   The ingredients needed to make your own toothpaste can be found at your local health food store or natural food market. You may want to buy several essential oils so you can make a variety of flavors. Some good essential oil flavors for toothpaste are cinnamon, peppermint, spearmint ,and wintergreen.
2. To make your own toothpaste, measure three parts baking soda along with one part salt into a glass measuring cup.
3. For every one-half cup of baking soda/salt mixture, add five teaspoons of glycerin.
4. Slowly add distilled water to the mixture while stirring until you get a thick paste.
5. Place several drops of the essential oil of your choice into the paste and continue to stir until well distributed.
6. Your homemade, all natural toothpaste is now ready to use. Enjoy!