Elmex is owned by Colgate.
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!
Elmex isn't European anymore. It was founded in Switzerland, but was acquired by the American company Colgate-Palmolive in 2004.
Sensodyne supremacy!
Without Sensodyne I’d be fucked.
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.
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.
what is you guy's favourite version? mine is fresh mint!
Gentle Whitening. Honestly I don't notice much whitening but I like the texture of it more than the others.
No-one mentioning the bright white set of teeth on the bottom woman? I think it's a neat detail!
Babushka just has such lovely white teeth.
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
How’s the cost of them? All the ones I have seen are absurdly more than normal toothpaste like 2-3x the price
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.
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?
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.
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.
Oxygenol = Finnish
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
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.
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.
Can you elaborate more please? Or give us a link to the report.
https://www.test.de/Zahnpasta-im-Test-4607097-0/ german and 5€ for the data, but newspapers often share snippets of it for free
and actually doesn't secretly fuck your teeth up.
Well that's a ominous insinuation without proper sourcing.
I just meant some big name brand toothpastes being very abrasive to (imo) a point of detriment
I use Oxygenol, a Finnish toothpaste.
I brush my teeth the German way:
Morgens Aronal abends Elmex.
Nice how they get you to buy two different products.
In Italy we also have Curasept and Biorepair!
Marvis is also Italian, owned by Ludovico Martelli who also own Proraso, with very cool "flavors".
In Italy, pasta del capitano
Any EU maker of electric toothbrushes?
How about Philips, they are from the Netherlands afaik.
Overpriced brush heads, but 3rd party isn't hard to find.
https://newteethbytom.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/8.a.-Toothpaste-Abrasiveness-Comparisons.pdf
For another morsel of information.
My current toothpaste is rated at 125
Bring back the original Parodontax flavor!
I have been using Zendium for years, I believe Unilever is from the UK. So, not EU, but at least not the US.
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.
A Q U A F R E S H
I use bioniq, which is made by the Dr. Wolff company in Germany. It has hydroxyapatite instead of fluoride.
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.
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.
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