Well, first things first – I made myself a half and half mixture of baking soda and cornstarch today. It’s in it’s own little ball jar in my bathroom, and I applied it with an old (clean!) sock when I got out of the shower today. Frankly, I can’t report on it yet. It’s been pretty chilly in the apartment since I took a shower, and I haven’t done anything all that physical since then (I’d already gone for a walk and a mountain bike ride earlier today). However, even though I can’t claim wildly positive results, I can say that so far there are no negative results. That’s good, right?
As for toothpaste, I’d been really excited to you that a grout cleaner recipe is also great for natural toothpaste! I’d found a step-by-step in pictures tutorial for baking soda toothpaste. There were many more sites as well, most of them for teeth whitening, but I found one piece of information repeated many times: do NOT use baking soda as a toothpaste/whitener if you have anything in your mouth requiring orthodontic glue. I have a permanent retainer. Bummer!
But wait! The most popular toothpaste recipe calls for baking soda and peroxide, although I was originally reading about baking soda alone. What if peroxide can stand alone? This website seems to think so, although they also believe in washing your toothbrush with dishsoap, which I don’t ever plan to do. That may be a point in their favor, though, since they believe that much in good hygiene. Yahoo answers is conflicted. I’m conflicted. I still have at least a week or two of toothpaste yet, hopefully more, so I’m going to let this simmer on the back burner for a while. To peroxide or not to peroxide? That is the question.
