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Pssshhhht, baking soda toothpaste rules and baking soda is great for keeping a variety of things in your house stink-free and clean.

Viva la baking soda!

Posted by christopher hong | August 23, 2007 3:29 PM
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Baking soda has no business being in toothpaste. Baking soda's place is in the kitchen!

Posted by Dominic Holden | August 23, 2007 3:49 PM
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toothpaste is awesome.

Posted by fan | August 23, 2007 3:50 PM
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If it's used for cleaning and freshening various things throughout my house I highly doubt I want it in my mouth.

Posted by Nay | August 23, 2007 3:51 PM
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agreed with #1. it neutralizes the acids that cause bad breath. it keeps your refrigerator smelling fresh and clean. it makes your baked goods nice n' fluffy. why, it even works as an antacid!

my dear, sweet baking soda. is there anything you can't do?

Posted by brandon | August 23, 2007 3:51 PM
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Baking soda FTW!!!1!

Posted by Mr. Poe | August 23, 2007 3:55 PM
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Rub it on your tarnished silver, too, pallio.

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale | August 23, 2007 3:58 PM
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blech. I agree with Dominic. Baking soda toothpaste tastes gross.

Posted by arduous | August 23, 2007 4:00 PM
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What's this, then?

Is it 4:20 already?

Posted by NapoleonXIV | August 23, 2007 4:01 PM
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Baking soda toothpaste? Ripoff. Just use plain baking soda.

Posted by Fnarf | August 23, 2007 4:10 PM
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Baking soda + vinegar = clear drains

Posted by Kim Hayden | August 23, 2007 4:14 PM
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All that doth spread we cannot toothpaste name
Or else would grease and butter be the same;
But that is toothpase which the teeth doth clean
And sodium bicarbonate emparteth but a sheen.
Then 'tis not soda that doth the teeth make hale,
But 'tis toothpaste doth this without fail.

Posted by kinaidos | August 23, 2007 4:15 PM
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My dental hygienist just told me last week that toothpaste is bad for you and he was dead serious. He said that it was obvious that I've been using a peroxide toothpaste (Arm & Hammer Baking Soda and Peroxide to be exact). He said that one should only use the tiniest measure of Tom's of Maine and that usually he brushes sans toothpaste. He said toothpastes are full of sugar and toxic chemicals and that oral cancer is out of control. He suggested that I stop using toothpaste except a dab of Tom's and said that gums absorb toxic chemicals into the blood stream very quickly,

Posted by call me a snot | August 23, 2007 4:44 PM
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Not only does it taste gross, baking soda in toothpaste is a bit of a scam.

Brushing with actual powdered baking soda, which tastes even grosser, does actually work to whiten your teeth somewhat. But once it has dissolved in a tube of toothpaste, it becomes mostly inert. So it is mostly just marketing hype.

Posted by SDA in SEA | August 23, 2007 5:35 PM
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TO echo @13, in my opinion it is Toothepaste that is gross - what is in that shit? No matter how much you rinse your mouth you know you are swallowing stuff that is not meant to be swallowed. Maybe baking soda toothpaste a waste of money, but the reason it tastes like shit is that it absorbs all the odors in your mouth, so that it stinks is a good sign actually.

Dominic, you are going way to easy on toothpaste. I hope you don't use an entire inch of it each time you brush just cuz that's what they do in the commercials. That superfluous, ubiquitous long squeeze we can all recall in itself is probably a public health crime.

Posted by Jude Fawley | August 23, 2007 5:57 PM
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This is why you should only buy Hello Kitty toothpaste! There's no chance of getting baking soda in there! Yes, I said Hello Kitty toothpaste! Yumm! Also available: Hello Kitty toothbrush...vibrating no less. And don't get me started on Hello Kitty vibrators! Yes, they are making a comeback!

Posted by Kristin Bell | August 23, 2007 6:55 PM
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Nice wet toothbrush - dipped in just a smidgen of salt - which is then mostly rinsed out by the vigor of the sucking and sloshing which feels very good and is socially OK when doing dental hygiene in the privacy of you own home sink or in airports and at YMCA/office communal sink chains

Hate the tube crap cause they have always tasted funny and leave my mouth and teeth feeling dirty as in coated

also, I am very cheap with the money

but spare no expense on good liquor or weed

Dominic, try writing on douching before sex - surely more interesting and if your pix do you justice, you are most likely expert, and Dan can give you thousand of clues from his mail and own experiences

brush with a touch of soda or salt, rinse a lot and grunt and gurrgle all you want

Posted by GUEST | August 23, 2007 10:44 PM
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Dom, have you ever thought about brushing with pot?

Posted by Captain Obvious | August 24, 2007 6:17 AM
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Baking soda in toothpaste rules. Why do you think they started putting it in?

But fennel-flavored toothpaste? FENNEL? Excuse me while I go yack up my liver.

I'll tell you what, Dominic: go protest the presence of baking soda in fennel toothpaste until they take it out (not that it'll taste any better after that). You can have all the soda-free fennel toothpaste you like. I won't touch it, I swear! Just leave my toothpaste alone.

Posted by Toby | August 24, 2007 7:27 AM
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Baking soda is the only natural substance which will keep your teeth polished. Screw the nasty saccharine fruit flavors common in all popular brands; they're nasty, but maybe your taste buds haven't evolved. But baking soda plus vinegar DOES NOT equal clear drains.

Posted by Catman | August 24, 2007 10:00 AM

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