Mommy Goes Green

Now that you are purchasing more organic and nontoxic products for your family, you might consider looking into the products you put in your mouth, too – those that keep your teeth healthy.  If you look on the label on many mainstream oral care products, you’ll notice a nice mixture of chemicals, artificial sweeteners, preservatives, and dyes. 

The Natural Dentist is a 13 year old all-natural oral care company and all products are created from plants and minerals, in their purest possible forms. 

• No Artificial Dyes – mainstream products use artifical additives such as Blue #1, Yelow #5 and other FD&C colorants.  The Natural Dentist uses vegetable juices such as red cabbage, purple carrot, beet, tomato, and annatto.
• No Detergents - none of the products contain SLS ( sodium lauryl sulfate ), a common ingredient in toothpaste and products that foam.  It can be an irritant and you should avoid SLS if you get canker sores. 
• No Petroleum Byproducts
• Both flouride and flouride-free options – your choice as use of flouride can be a controversial topic. 

The Natural Dentist uses environmentally friendly packaging practices as well by selling their toothpaste without a box ( reducing packaging waste ) and packaging all of their mouth rinses in recyclable bottles.  All product labels and printed materials are produced with soy and low VOC inks and all products are manufactured in the good ol’ U.S. of A.

We’ve been using The Natural Dentist products and couldn’t be happier!  My husband is not always a fan of my newest non-toxic concoction but he’s happy to use The Natural Dentist products. 

The good news is that YOU can try out The Natural Dentist products too!  Enter the sweepstakes below for a free set of mouthwash and toothpaste or download a coupon for $2.00 off ANY Natural Dentist product.  You can find local and online stores that carry The Natural Dentist products here - I found that both RiteAid and Walgreens carry them in our neck of the woods.

FREE STUFF: 2 lucky winners will get a set of mouthwash and toothpaste from The Natural Dentist! To enter, visit The Natural Dentist website and tell us what product you would like to try. Leave your comment by Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 11:59pm PST. Contest open to all U.S. and Canadian residents, ages 18+. We will choose 2 winners, at random, and notify them by email. Privacy Policy.

Congratulations to the winners: Jesse from Sherman, TX and Bobette from Bellevue, OH!