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Why Does Everything Taste Bad After You Brush Your Teeth?

Posted November 17, 2008 8:40 AM

From mental_floss Blog:

If you have no idea why we're pondering that question today, go brush your teeth real quick and grab a drink (orange juice, iced tea, beer - anything except water). Awful, isn't it? You can thank sodium laureth sulfate, also known as sodium lauryl ether sulfate (SLES), or sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) for ruining your drink, depending on which toothpaste you use. Both of these chemicals are surfactants - wetting agents that lower the surface tension of a liquid - that are added to toothpastes to create foam and make the paste easier to spread around your mouth (they're also important ingredients in detergents, fabric softeners, paints, laxatives, surfboard waxes and insecticides).

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11/18/2008 12:05 AM

Gee, I usually brush my teeth after I eat, but whatever...

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11/18/2008 3:44 PM

Brush with a paste of baking soda and water - no problemo!

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11/19/2008 4:51 PM

And here I thought it was all the sweeteners used for flavor over whelming my taste buds so that all i could taste the salt and bitterness in the beer.

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Re: Why Does Everything Taste Bad After You Brush Your Teeth?

12/01/2008 5:10 AM

Sodium Laurel Sulphate (Sulfate) is very toxic.

Absorbed through the skin in detergents, soaps, cosmetics and skin creams, has caused toxic syndrome and death.

Check it out with Google Results 1 - 10 of about 131,000 for sodium lauryl sulphate toxic. (0.28 seconds).

As with Chlorine and Fluoride in drinking water, it's best to stay away from such products which the liver or kidneys were never designed to cope with.

As has been pointed out above, Baking Soda or common salt is OK as a tooth cleaner, and actually does a far better cleaning job, without the risk of toxix shock or long-term damage.

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