Making Toothpaste

Making Toothpaste

Toothpaste is a semi-solid paste like material used for cleaning and polishing teeth.

Raw material as ingredients

Backing soda, sodium chloride, calcium carbonate and glycerin are usually used for making homemade toothpaste. The other commonly used ingredients include water, binders, abrasives, surfactant, flavours, sweeteners, fluorides, preservatives, colouring agents etc.

Producer

• Take 5g backing soda, 1.5g sodium chloride and 1.5g calcium carbonate in a plastic cup.
• Stir the mixture, add 4ml glycerin in the mixture and stir it thoroughly. The mixture will become thick.
• Add distilled water with a dropper while stirring until the mixture has about the same thickness as commercial toothpaste.

Making toothpaste

• Add the other ingredients edible oil, fluorides, flavours, sweetener, preservatives, colouring agents and mix thoroughly by constant stirring.