Homemade Toothpaste

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Making my own toothpaste has been on my “to-do” list for a few years now, I just never got around to it.
It is so simple I wonder why I put it off so long.

I love the idea of knowing exactly what is in my toothpaste, and once I got use to the different consistency, I felt like this toothpaste worked better than any comercial brand I had every used before.
(convinsing the kids has been a different story…..)

Here is my quick tutorial for homemade toothpaste, and I say quick because it really is, it only takes a few minutes.  All mesurements are approximent, just adjust to suit your own tastes.

Ingredients:
2 cups VIRGIN ORGANIC coconut oil
1/4 cup baking soda
20 drops peppermint oil (or any oil of choice)
Stevia
(I don’t use this, but some people like it)

Spoon the coconut oil into a bowl and give it a quick stir to soften a bit.

 Add baking soda, and stir until smooth and well blended.

 Add as much peppermint oil as you would like. 🙂

Store in air tight glass jars and use as you would regular toothpaste!

Enjoy!

10 thoughts on “Homemade Toothpaste”

  1. Hmmmm…..I’m intrigued. I have always had a hard time with baking soda toothpaste, is the baking soda overwhelming, or do you just have to get used to it?

    • I don’t really have a problem with the taste of baking soda, but the kids did! I just put more peppermint in the next batch and either that helped or they are getting use to the baking soda 😉

  2. We tried it a few days ago. Epic fail. Good thing I only made a 1/4 batch. Maybe if I add some sweetener, but we couldn’t get over the texture! Bummer because I was really excited about it 🙁

  3. I was looking at some other homemade toothpaste recipes and a lot of them had equal parts of coconut oil and baking soda, and one recipe called for the addition of calcium magnesium powder. I figure I will have to play around with the concoction a bit, just wondered what your thoughts were.