That arm and hammer toothpaste was such a surprise
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I spent 18 years brushing with flavoured toothpaste until I realised "wait, I fucking hate this." Switched to unflavoured and brushing is far more pleasant now.
i assume the burning from the toothpaste, its from the excessive mint oil they put in toothpaste, its enough to cause chemical burns, or allergic reaction, often to mask the terrible cheap ingredients they use. excessive abrasives will cause similar issues if not already known to wear down enamel.
Trying my dads original flavor Listerine.
The brown one?!?
That would be it.
Oh no. That shit could take the copper oxides off the Statue of Liberty and make that bitch shine like she was new.
There was a brown one? I remember the gold/yellow colored one but have not seen it in years.
My parents used cinnamon toothpaste. Vile stuff.
I loved cinnamon toothpaste as a teenager, and so did my wife. So, we decided to buy a tube. Needless to say, I remember it tasting much better.
oh the real stuff is Euthymol. It's antiseptic flavor.
Close-up? My dad used that stuff, yuck
My aunt had something like that I think. But for some reason it was salty as well? That was so bad.
When i was a kid stores sold a toothpaste for all the different age ranges, and they'd add a colour each time you got a bit older like you were graduating to another aspect of tooth protecion. As such, I never actually experienced such a brutal wake-up call as this image suggests, because strange machinations were put in place to ween me off kiddy toothpaste... and now I'm wondering if this was a marketing scheme or if my parents actually did hunt down training wheels toothpaste to ease me into things.
For us it's the reverse experience as you grow older the fewer stripes and colors in your toothpaste.
I'm down to just white in the morning and just blue at night.
Why do you use two different toothpastes? Night is whitening?
I use sensodyne repair and protect in the morning (for sensitivity) and then at night I use Colgate Prevident for the fluoride which you only need once a day.
Edit: TIL apparently prevident requires a prescription in the US, weird it's OTC here.
Wish mine did that lmao. I got the crest whitener the night after my bubblegum flavored one
8 year old me after blindly swallowing my parents alcohol stash.
14 year old me after consciously (at least initially) swallowing my parents alcohol stash.
I recently tried my 3 year old niece's tooth paste and it was sickly sweet. I guess I can't go back.
Toothpaste never bothered me. But icy hot… dear lord did I have regrets
You brushed your teeth with Icy Hot?
I would have had many more regrets if I’d done that! This was just on my back, thankfully
Others have put icy hot on their scrotum, much to their near-death regret.
No.
OK, Anakin… you act like it’s sand or something…
this looks like a rough part of town