I have talked alot about products that contain SLS ( Sodium Laureyl Sulfate ), which is a harsh chemical surfactant used in almost all products that produce a foam. Number one is soaps and shampoos. SLS is also used in engine degreasers and detergents of all sorts. It's linked to causing irritation, rashes and ungenetic skin disorders and my youngest daughter is allergic to it. I am sensative to it as well.

I read the backs of product labels like I do nutrition labels on food products. I want to know what's going on our skin or in our bodies.

Did you know, your favorite tooth paste, most likely contains SLS? I became aware of it, because my gums were bleeding when I brushed my teeth. My Dentist suggested brushing my gums more to toughen them and using a soft or medium bristle tooth brush rather than a hard bristle brush. He also gave me a special mouth wash because it appeared I had the beginning of a gum desease. I felt there was no way I could be pushing towards gingevitus, I brush my teeth every day, I floss , the works.

After following dentists orders and using everything he told me, my gums were still bleeding when I brushed, they were still sensative and still a little inflamed. Then I turned over the tooth paste container and read the ingredients. SLS! Could this be the problem? Every tooth paste I looked at had this ingredient in it.

I began researching to find out what people used in the good ol' days before SLS was in everything. Soap!? Baking Soda?!? What?

Well in the middle of my experimentation of creating a tooth soap or paste that would clean my mouth and teeth but be gentle on my gums I learned of another concern with tooth paste........ FLORIDE!?

The SLS in tooth paste didn't surprise me, after all it foams and most products that foam and bubble has SLS. Floride and it's controversy suprised me. From the time we are children we hear how great floride is and how it's best for our teeth to strengthen enamil and blah blah blah. When I read the differant articles available about how floride was once considered a very effective rat poison, that did it for me, I had to read on. You have the option of buying tooth paste without floride , but you don't have the option of buying tooth paste without SLS. If SLS was the problem with my gums, I needed to do something.

For the last several months I have worked deligently to create a safer, natural and effective tooth soap/paste.

This is what has happened. I have made a truly wonderful tooth soap/paste that cleans, whitens, doesn't foam but freshens breath, keeps teeth whiter, gentle to the gums and has herbs that fight bad breath, bad bacteria and doesn't leave a weird after taste in your mouth.

The first try was awful! I thought I was going to vomit, it tasted SOOOOO Bad!!!

The second try was a little better but still border lining the nasty side when it comes to taste. I am looking out for my customers here, ok? It goes in your mouth and if it tastes horriable you won't use it, even if it's better for you. Trouble was finding a way to make this tooth polish that didn't taste so bad it wouldn't ever be used after the first try without adding a bunch of sugary sweeteners.

My third and fourth attempts have come out amazing and I have to say my gums are no longer bleeding and turning a healthy pink.

While the tooth polish is still going through testing and tweaking to get it just perfect, it is already very amazing. Here are some neat facts and benefits about my upcoming tooth soap in the near future:

The combination of Peppermint Oil, Tea Tree Oil and Orange Oil fights bad breath, cleans your mouth by fighting bad bacteria. The specially formulated soap and baking soda clean the teeth, gums and tongue, polishing the teeth to remove plaque. Licorice root gives it a pleasant natural sweet flavor and also fights bad breath and none of it leaves a funky taste in your mouth after wards. The peppermint oil gives your mouth a cool clean feeling during and after brushing. The texture isn't the same as manufactured tooth paste(Creamy), it's a little grainy because of the mildly abrasive baking soda. From necessity comes great things, and I can't wait for the dentist to see my gums and teeth and ask me if I have been using that nasty medicated mouth wash he gave me. I will proudly tell him, No! it didn't help. That stuff was expensive anyway! I've been using Soaps 'N Suds tooth soap.

Once the Tooth Polish is perfected and been through more testing by others, I think it will be packaged in a neat little malibu tube. I have found, that you can't run a little water over the tooth soap after you apply it to your tooth brush like you would regular tooth paste because it washes away. There are no chemicals in this tooth soap, only natural ingredients!