 Guys welcome back to my channel, I hope you guys have had a wonderful week so far. Today I'm going to be sharing with you my natural toothpaste recipe that I've been using for quite a while now. I love it because it doesn't contain all those harmful ingredients that you find in your regular conventional store bought toothpaste that you find on the market and it's also really cheap to make so you can make more of it, the list price and it's also really just easy and just easy to whip up in the kitchen so it's ready for when you need to brush your teeth. Plus one of the big things that I love about it is it's zero waste so I've been really following my little zero waste lifestyle recently or a bit more recently for a while and I've really tried to minimise my amount of waste that I use and kind of throw away because I can understand that it has a big impact on our environment. So the toothpaste tube that it comes in is just plain wasteful because one it comes in a tube and a box while the box is recyclable the tube is almost impossible to recycle and often ends up in a landfill. So for me I was like I didn't like how I'm constantly throwing out toothpaste tubes and knowing that they're most likely ending up in our landfill and I just didn't like that at all. So I was like nah so for this recipe the homemade natural version is you can put it into a glass jar or into a stainless steel container and just reuse it as much as you like. So a good question that I have asked myself before is why should I use natural toothpaste? Well I can understand that we have a perfectly good pre-made version all ready to go why would you want to switch to making your own homemade natural version because it is more of a hassle for some it is just you have to make it and you have to you know put it into a glass jar and some people are like oh I just don't want to do this. So when I started reading about what was in these toothpaste that you usually get on the market I found there was a lot of nasty ingredients in them and I was like oh I probably should do something about changing this. So I started researching what all these ingredients were and one of the most harmful ones in the toothpaste tubes that I'd often come across and that I'd started learning more about was one triclosin. Triclosin is an antimicrobial chemical so it's often found in things like antibacterial soaps and products but it has been linked to a lot of health issues and environmental problems. Flu ride was another one and yes this is a very controversial ingredient because it has been shown that having added flu ride to our water and to our toothpaste it has helped in protecting our teeth from deteriorating and decaying. However there have been quite a lot of studies on both sides weighing up the benefits and cons of using this ingredient in our water and in our toothpaste. I personally don't use flu ride in my toothpaste and I also mostly filter it out of the tap water that I drink as well with my own water filter. I found it interesting that flu ride does come with its own warning sign saying that if it is ingested you need to immediately call the poison control centre. I was like just something to think about. Glacierin is another interesting ingredient as it is actually found in many natural toothpaste available however there is a lot of controversy about it. Some research says that Glacierin can actually coach the teeth and prevent them from benefiting from minerals in our saliva so for me I personally don't have it in my natural toothpaste. So factants are an ingredient that I have talked about before in the past in my natural homemade shampoo tutorial video as they are often found in conventional shampoos that you find but it is also found in toothpaste and the form which it is under is usually sodium laurel sulfate. This chemical is used in toothpaste as it gives it its foam and leather however some research has found that SLS can actually cause canker sores and mouth ulcers. Sweeteners like sodium saturin, sorbetol and other artificial sweeteners are added to toothpaste to improve their taste however there isn't much evidence showing that they are very beneficial or even safe to use in your mouth. Xylitol I think that's how you pronounce it again I'll show the word down below so you guys can see has been shown to have some positive benefits for oral health because it's a sugar alpha hole when bacteria consume it they actually can't metabolise it so after consuming it they just die so having it in small doses can be beneficial for your mouth health however I avoid using it in food just to prevent having it in large quantities as having large amounts of it has been shown to have some health issues and cause some side effects so I just tend to avoid it adding it into any food I have but having small amounts has been shown to have some benefits so it's up to you if you want to add it to your toothpaste or not. I have yet to try it myself at the moment I just haven't been using it because it hasn't been in my house and it's just something that I'm not really that fussed on anyway so it's up to you I'll add it to the ingredients list so if you want to you can add it but I just find that I don't need to add it to my toothpaste. So when I talk about it in the recipe I'll mention you can use ground stevia or stevia powder just because they're quite good for sweetening it but I usually use ground stevia just because I've been growing a stevia plant at home and all I do is pick the leaves dry them out then I ground them myself and add it to the toothpaste however some people do get put off by the dark green colour it makes so if you find that you don't like that green colour stevia powder can be for you just make sure you choose one that's as natural as possible so one that has the least amount of added ingredients just pure stevia powder if you can find one but today I'm going to be using stevia drops these natural stevia drops that I have at home because I've run out of stevia ground stevia and stevia powder so that's what I'm going to be using today so thank you guys for sticking through all my talking beforehand we're going to go straight into the tutorial now so I hope you guys enjoy it so for the ingredients you're going to need about half a cup of coconut oil two to three tablespoons of baking soda two small packets of stevia powder or two teaspoons of ground stevia for me I'm just going to use a few drops of stevia liquid today you're going to need 15 to 20 drops of peppermint or cinnamon essential oil it's optional but you can use 10 drops of Moe extract I'll write that again down below I'm not entirely sure how to pronounce it but you can use that if you like and another optional ingredient is you can use up to one tablespoon of that xylitol powder so to begin making a toothpaste simply melt or slightly soften the coconut oil then mix in the other ingredients and stir well if you're using semi-hard coconut oil use a fork if not just use a spoon if you're using completely melted coconut oil you'll need to stir at several times while the mixture keep while the mixture cools to keep the baking soda incorporated next pour the mixture into a small glass jar you can make different ones for each member of your family if you like then let it cool completely when you're ready to use it simply dip the toothbrush in and scrape a small amount onto the bristles you can also use a small spoon to put it onto your toothbrush if you like and wow there you have it I hope you guys like the video if you do you know just to give it a big thumbs up and if you want to join our tribe just subscribe down below I hope to see in my future videos guys if you have any other recipes for homemade toothpaste I would love to hear them I always like looking for new things so please share them with me down in the comments below I always have a wonderful day and I hope to see you in my next video see ya