Need to find one without any palm oil, boycott palm oil.
Also where is the wintergreen?
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Mmm, peppermint
squirts the entire tube into my mouth
psst... you can just buy peppermint
I hate to rain on a parade, but it's marketing bullshit. Aqua comes from water, isn't it? Purified one at that? "Vegetable"? Calcium fluoride is a source? "Natural ore" as opposed to an artificial lab grown ore?
It kinda looks nice unless you actually read it, or know what words mean. And if you do it's obvious ploy to capture very ignorant people.
What, you don’t feel more informed to know that your glycerin comes from a miscellaneous vegetable?
Natural ore made me laugh. I mean, asbestos and beryllium are naturally occurring ores too…
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You can find those things out. Natural ore means it comes from natural deposits (its not a lab-formulated compound).
Some people prefer natural ingredients. Thats it.
Otherwise its very common with synthetic or refined chemical ingredients in toothpaste, like:
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Sodium fluoride / stannous fluoride (lab-produced, though based on natural elements)
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Artificial abrasives (engineered silica)
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Detergents like sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS)
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Synthetic preservatives, flavors, or colorants
Same reason people want to grow their own food. They know whats in it and what they put in their body.
Sure, this is still a marketing strategy that could be exploited by bad corps, but it is a step in the right direction. This is where rules to define those terms accurately would be a good use of regulations.
It kinda looks nice unless you actually read it, or know what words mean.
Teaching children is pointless because it might look nice, but if you already know the stuff then you would recognize that it's all fairly trivial, well-known stuff. No reason to point it out.
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It's homeopathic nonsense. None of those are accepted names for the substances they are talking about, and they don't specify a quantity so it could be essentially zero for some of them.
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I am still waking up, and read the title as "Toothpasta". 😰
looks cool