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If you look on the back of your toothpaste container you will more likely than not find a long list of indistinguishable ingredients and a formidable warning: do not swallow. When you take a closer ...

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Kagan Williams didn’t set out to launch an oral care company — but what started as a personal search for a safer, more effective toothpaste quickly turned into Peg Paste, a brand now trusted by ...

Your oral health is the gateway to your overall well-being, so it’s important to choose a toothpaste that’s free of harmful ingredients. Look for natural or organic alternatives with safer ingredients ...

You may think it might be the common mint flavor of toothpaste clashing with other flavors, but in the case of orange juice and many other things, this isn’t actually what’s going on. The culprit here ...

Before we talk too much about homemade dog toothpaste, it’s probably worth looking at what’s in shop-bought dog toothpaste, and why. Most of the ingredients in shop-bought dog toothpaste are there to ...