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[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 62 points 1 month ago

Elmex is owned by Colgate.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 13 points 1 month ago

I haven’t used elemex since I was a kid and I still can’t get that taste out of my mouth. Urgh I hate it!

[-] faberyayo@lemm.ee 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Elmex isn't European anymore. It was founded in Switzerland, but was acquired by the American company Colgate-Palmolive in 2004.

[-] Comtief@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago

And Sensodyne is the opposite, I think. Started as American.

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[-] JehovasThickness@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago
[-] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago

Without Sensodyne I’d be fucked.

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Sensodyne started to cause my mouth to peel and stopped working as well as it was so I had to find a different product. I found a product to used silver. Been using it a year without peeling and my sensitivity is much better. Sadly I cannot find a non US manufacturer. But there may be one out there.

[-] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I had a similar issue with normal toothpaste and it turned out it was sensitivity to sodium lauryl sulphate. While some sensodyne pastes have SLS in them, the proper sensitivity stuff with NOVAMIN in the ingredients doesn’t and my peeling mucosa is no more.

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[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

what is you guy's favourite version? mine is fresh mint!

[-] JehovasThickness@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Gentle Whitening. Honestly I don't notice much whitening but I like the texture of it more than the others.

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[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 42 points 1 month ago

No-one mentioning the bright white set of teeth on the bottom woman? I think it's a neat detail!

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 15 points 1 month ago

Babushka just has such lovely white teeth.

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 22 points 1 month ago

I use Happy Tabs from the Netherlands. Instead of coming in a tube, they are essentially mints in a jar but are made out of dehydrated toothpaste and fluoride. Just pop one in, chew it (don't swallow) and brush.

Super super convenient for camping also. That's why I tried them out. Been using them for 3 years or so

[-] BussyCat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

How’s the cost of them? All the ones I have seen are absurdly more than normal toothpaste like 2-3x the price

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 9 points 1 month ago

360 tabs is 36€ on their site. Comparable with the medium-high price category of things like 3D white I think for a year's supply.

The thing is, you can stretch toothpaste very very far by just putting much less on, as well as tons of cheap brands. With tabs you have to use the recommended amount unless you want to put in work cutting them.

It definitely isn't the cheapest but they have 0 plastic since 2025 in their tablet packaging (they used to have a cellophane bag but they changed their formula that made the tablets much harder and less prone to falling apart with humidity) which is pretty huge considering Colgate and oral B make up a pretty good share of plastic pollution.

You can't have both cheap and sustainable in most cases.

[-] LongestPath@feddit.org 4 points 4 weeks ago

Hmm, I always thought coca cola and other beverage brands are the main culprit for this huge plastic pollution... Do you know the percentage that oral b and co are responsible?

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[-] towerful@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago

I massively appreciate all these memes highlighting American products.
Either I feel good that I've already fluked into buying more locally.
Or I realise I can do better, and I'm provided some alternatives.

[-] ScoreDivision@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

Same. So much focus is going towards moving people from tech giants, which are important, but so much harder to move away from. Smaller things like this still make a difference and are far more easier for people to switch from than say, youtube for example.

[-] passenger@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago

Oxygenol = Finnish

[-] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I recently started using Ben and Anna 🇩🇪 because it comes in a glass jar. Also deodorant in paste form in glass jar from 4starlings 🇵🇱

yes i am slavic everything must be in a glass jar like pickles ok

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

The deodorant is interesting, I've been semi looking for a replacement to avoid the plastic waste. I see in the instructions they advise to wait a while before putting your clothes on, have you found this to be necessary? I used to ruin all my T-shirts like this before changing brands and don't want to have this issue again.

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[-] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago

Last year I learned from independent consumer product testing agencies that at least here in germany the best dental care is provided using the most basic and cheap toothpaste from discounter chains, so now I use those. So much cheaper, so much more toothpaste in the tube and actually doesn't secretly fuck your teeth up.

[-] LongestPath@feddit.org 9 points 4 weeks ago

Can you elaborate more please? Or give us a link to the report.

[-] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 weeks ago

https://www.test.de/Zahnpasta-im-Test-4607097-0/ german and 5€ for the data, but newspapers often share snippets of it for free

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[-] jwt@programming.dev 4 points 4 weeks ago

and actually doesn't secretly fuck your teeth up.

Well that's a ominous insinuation without proper sourcing.

[-] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 weeks ago

I just meant some big name brand toothpastes being very abrasive to (imo) a point of detriment

[-] jwt@programming.dev 7 points 4 weeks ago

That's not an opinion, it either is or isn't detrimental.

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[-] supermurs@kbin.earth 11 points 1 month ago

I use Oxygenol, a Finnish toothpaste.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

I brush my teeth the German way:

Morgens Aronal abends Elmex.

[-] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Nice how they get you to buy two different products.

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[-] StrangeMed@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

In Italy we also have Curasept and Biorepair!

[-] biofaust@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Marvis is also Italian, owned by Ludovico Martelli who also own Proraso, with very cool "flavors".

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[-] ceccome@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

In Italy, pasta del capitano

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 4 weeks ago

Sensodyne is the absolute shiiiit

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[-] biofaust@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Any EU maker of electric toothbrushes?

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

How about Philips, they are from the Netherlands afaik.

[-] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Overpriced brush heads, but 3rd party isn't hard to find.

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[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Bring back the original Parodontax flavor!

[-] mundane@feddit.nu 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have been using Zendium for years, I believe Unilever is from the UK. So, not EU, but at least not the US.

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[-] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago

I was always under the impression that parodontax and sensodine are for treating something or other based on their marketing.

I use Kemphor by Verkos Laboratories an independent Spanish company and Ohlala by Ohlala Laboratories Paris, a France based business as the name suggests. I ended up using them because they both have toothpaste containing Xylitol, an ingredient that helps in killing bacteria, something that the megacorp brands obviously don't care about.

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

A Q U A F R E S H

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

I use bioniq, which is made by the Dr. Wolff company in Germany. It has hydroxyapatite instead of fluoride.

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[-] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

We have https://professional.sunstargum.com/en-en/#cmp-accordion__item-europe too. There was really nice toothpaste from Urtekram, but it's gone from stores for a year now for some reason.

[-] Captain_Saabossa@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Unfortunately I bought a brand new Oral-B iO shortly before I started boycotting American products and now I'm kinda stuck with it. I don't want to waste it, but at the same time I'll have to keep buying their expensive brush heads.

I do at least use Sensodyne toothpaste.

[-] thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

No off brand heads you can use?

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[-] confiq@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

same situation here.

Next time I'm buying UK https://www.trysuri.com/en-de

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