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Toothpaste blows my mind. It’s literally plastic in some baking soda type substance. Extra whitening? Larger plastic.

by nargella 4y ago

Aurelius3 4y ago
Source on this? I heard they banned microbeads in toothpaste, does this remove all plastics or is there more?
- nargella 4y ago
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwN983PnJoA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwN983PnJoA Maybe not true anymore.
burlesona 4y ago
Source? Wikipedia has pages on the various ingredients, which are a lot more complex than I realized, but I’m not seeing plastics… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothpaste https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothpaste
- nargella 4y ago
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwN983PnJoA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwN983PnJoA Perhaps this is dated now according to other comments.
hh3k0 4y ago
What blows my mind is that most chewing gum has plastic in it.
- hammock 4y ago
  There's more. The gum base of chewing gum is made on the same exact machines as car tires. Once or twice a year the factory will shut down tiremaking, clean the line and do a huge run of gum base. Then they will resume tiremaking. Source: someone who works at a major candy manufacturer
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Yoric 4y ago
Is that the case of powder toothpaste, too?
stjohnswarts 4y ago
no it's not, it's fluoride and some soapy binders like SLS and ceramics or baking soda for whitening/cleaning. I suppose some of the tube might break off and form these microplastics, however I don't know too many people swallowing their toothpaste leftovers. It's a bad idea as you shouldn't ingest that much fluoride, which is much more highly concentrated than fluroide in water. If you're talking about microbeads then those were outlawed in toothpaste/cosmetics/etc in 2016, which went in effect in 2017.
- b215826 4y ago
  There are toothpastes that contain plastic microbeads [1][2] and an FDA ban (for < 5mm size beads) came in effect only in 2015. Some toothpastes also have polyethele "specks" to provide color [3], [1]: https://www.colgate.com/en-us/oral-health/brushing-and-flossing/what-are-microbeads-in-toothpaste https://www.colgate.com/en-us/oral-health/brushing-and-floss... [2]: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/05 https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/05 /microbeads-exfoliators-plastic-face-scrub-toothpaste/ [3]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gum-balls/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gum-balls/

Toothpaste blows my mind. It’s literally plastic in some baking soda type substance. Extra whitening? Larger plastic.

Aurelius3 4y ago

Source on this? I heard they banned microbeads in toothpaste, does this remove all plastics or is there more?

nargella 4y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwN983PnJoA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwN983PnJoA Maybe not true anymore.

burlesona 4y ago

Source? Wikipedia has pages on the various ingredients, which are a lot more complex than I realized, but I’m not seeing plastics… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothpaste https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothpaste

nargella 4y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwN983PnJoA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwN983PnJoA Perhaps this is dated now according to other comments.

hh3k0 4y ago

What blows my mind is that most chewing gum has plastic in it.

hammock 4y ago
There's more. The gum base of chewing gum is made on the same exact machines as car tires. Once or twice a year the factory will shut down tiremaking, clean the line and do a huge run of gum base. Then they will resume tiremaking. Source: someone who works at a major candy manufacturer

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Yoric 4y ago

Is that the case of powder toothpaste, too?

stjohnswarts 4y ago

no it's not, it's fluoride and some soapy binders like SLS and ceramics or baking soda for whitening/cleaning. I suppose some of the tube might break off and form these microplastics, however I don't know too many people swallowing their toothpaste leftovers. It's a bad idea as you shouldn't ingest that much fluoride, which is much more highly concentrated than fluroide in water. If you're talking about microbeads then those were outlawed in toothpaste/cosmetics/etc in 2016, which went in effect in 2017.

b215826 4y ago
There are toothpastes that contain plastic microbeads [1][2] and an FDA ban (for < 5mm size beads) came in effect only in 2015. Some toothpastes also have polyethele "specks" to provide color [3], [1]: https://www.colgate.com/en-us/oral-health/brushing-and-flossing/what-are-microbeads-in-toothpaste https://www.colgate.com/en-us/oral-health/brushing-and-floss... [2]: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/05 https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/05 /microbeads-exfoliators-plastic-face-scrub-toothpaste/ [3]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gum-balls/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gum-balls/