Some of you may be familiar with Redmond Trading’s RealSalt.  If you are, you may not know that the company produces a number of other products: seasoning blends with salt (seasoned salt, onion salt, garlic salt), bath salts, and clay products.  When the company’s representative sent me some products to try out, she must have read my mind.

For years, I’d been using the same natural toothpaste.  Unfortunately, it was discontinued by the manufacturer.  (Ages ago, actually; I just still had extras I’d stocked up on.)  I was looking for a replacement, but it had to be free of certain ingredients – including fluoride – and needed to have a decent flavor.  And I don’t like peppermint (too “hot”); I prefer wintergreen.

Well, lo and behold, my package arrived and included wintergreen-flavored Earthpaste.

The Toothpaste

Now, I’ll be the first to tell you this toothpaste looks kind of gross if you’re not accustomed to it.  It’s clay-based, so it’s brown.  And it doesn’t foam up like regular toothpaste.  (That’s by design; it doesn’t contain sodium laurel sulfate or any of its substitutes.)  However, it tastes like normal toothpaste.  There’s no grit or anything like that, that you might be worried about.  Apart from the fact that it doesn’t get foamy, I didn’t find anything unusual about the consistency.  If you’re more of a classic peppermint guy or gal, they have a peppermint option, too.

All of the ingredients are edible – as in, swallowable.  That means you can use it for your little ones, too.  (They might prefer the lemon flavor, which we were also sent, but haven’t tried yet.)  Some users have also said they think the toothpaste helped remineralize their teeth!  (Of course the company makes no such claims.  But it makes sense to me that the paste could do this, as the clay is high in minerals, and you’re applying them directly to your teeth repeatedly.)  Regardless of whether the toothpaste strengthens teeth, it definitely does work to keep them clean.

I think we’ve found our new toothpaste!

(One final note.  I was able to find this at both Amazon and Vitacost – although Vitacost has the Lemon Twist flavor listed as “Earth Paste” [two words].  So if you’re already placing an order through either of those sites, that might be a good way to try this out.)

(By the way, for anyone who’s wondering, that’s a GermFree toothbrush in the photo, with embedded silver to kill germs within the brush.)