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Your website does not contain a list of ingredients, nor do you show photos of your box with government required disclosures on it.

You admit that your toothpaste does not have fluoride, but does it contain SLS, propylene glycol, DEA, glycerin, hydrated silica, or artificial sweeteners? If so, please discontinue your product or change your formula. None of those ingredients are safe for use in toothpaste and help cause tooth damage and decay.

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With the comments about "fighting plaque like leading brands", I'm actually curious whether this is legal. I believe the active ingredients disclosure box is mandatory, although possibly it's on the face of the box we can't see.

I see that the toothpaste is legal (white-labelled from an approved factory), so this is just a labelling question.

From a comment[1] elsewhere in thread, looks like they removed fluoride to avoid higher FDA scrutiny. Not sure what that means for labeling.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12507965

That may well be the only 'active' ingredient in some toothpastes, since the rest is mostly just a scrubbing aid.

Point well taken! The label and full listing of ingredients will be going up there. Sorry for this omission and thank you for this comment!

Making the list of ingredients a 1st class citizen on the box could be good marketing, if the list is simple enough. I'd certainly like to see it.

Highlighting the lack of fluoride in the product will definitely appeal to the anti-fluoridation nut jobs out there.

Piggybacking on this - Have you had any endorsements from dentists or medical professionals that this is safe to use?

Yeah, my wife can't have SLS in her toothpaste at all. It'd be great to have an ingredients list somewhere.

What's wrong with artificial sweeteners in toothpaste? Do they absorb quickly enough through the oral mucosa to spike insulin levels? Are the oral bacteria able to metabolize them?

I use Pepsodent and it contains hydrated silica. Why is it not safe?

My guess would be that it's too hard (Mohs scale) and erodes the enamel. Hydrated silica is essentially sand

So what is the recommended toothpaste? Any ideas?

Either make your own with coconut oil, baking soda, and bentonite clay, or buy a premade one like Earthpaste.

Where can I actually get toothpaste without this stuff? I looked for one without hydrated silica last time I was out shopping for toothpaste, but didn't actually see one

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