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| Topic Started: Feb 24 2017, 07:22 PM (224 Views) | |
| Shorty | Feb 24 2017, 07:22 PM Post #1 |
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Recently I've found that mouthwash tastes sweet. For years I used Scope or Colgate and they've quit feeling fresh. Then I switched to Listerine Zero or Freshmint. Again, both leave a sweet taste. My husband even commented that the bottle he opened smelled sweet. Is it possible they're adding artificial things to provide that sweetness for everything that the population seems to love? ProHealth has a flavour I won't even describe to you. The ultimate hell would be using regular Listerine. Salted water is for desperate times if I have a sore throat. Any thoughts on this. |
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| Durgan | Feb 24 2017, 08:59 PM Post #2 |
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Salt. Also for toothpaste. |
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| FuzzyO | Feb 24 2017, 11:50 PM Post #3 |
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Water. If you grow mint make your own mint water. Mouthwash is one of those generally unnecessary things that someone created so that there is more stuff we feel we are supposed to buy. Man existed without it for centuries. |
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| goldengal | Feb 25 2017, 12:28 AM Post #4 |
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I often use straight Peroxide. Take care, Pat |
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| Trotsky | Feb 25 2017, 02:15 AM Post #5 |
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I use GREEN mouthwash from the DOLLAR store (often Lander brand,) have for years. It usually contains cetylpyrridium choride, a good antiseptic. Next time I will try a BLUE one <peppermint flavored.> My FAVE is LAVORIS (red, cinnamon-clovey stuff) and our DOLLAR TREE carried it for a while, but the last bottle tasted of soap so we returned it. Now they aren't carrying it anymore. LAVORIS is delicious. I put my mouthwash in a chloraseptic bottle and say AHHHHH and spray the back of my throat to kill bacteria in my throat.
Sweetness? they ALL use saccharine for sweetness. I HATE the aftertaste from the saccharine so I stick with the ones that taste the LEAST of saccharine. I don't thing any of them use actural sugar for sweetness...considering tooth decay and all. shorty, Everything IN the bottle of mouthwash is an "artificial thing." Edited by Trotsky, Feb 25 2017, 02:22 AM.
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| swing | Feb 25 2017, 05:05 AM Post #6 |
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Our dentist uses TheraBreath. My husband orders it online from Amazon.ca no alcohol, no burning, and supposedly lasts for 12 hours. |
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| wildie | Feb 25 2017, 05:10 PM Post #7 |
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I always suffered from a coated tongue! Then I read that mouth wash kills off good bacteria. I quit using commercial mouthwash and now I have a nice pink tongue! |
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| Shorty | Feb 25 2017, 07:07 PM Post #8 |
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So I put my reading glasses on and found a bottle with large enough print to read. Sure enough, at least two ingredients are sweeteners. I swear they've increased the amount in the last year. Wildie, I'm the opposite. My tongue was coated until I started using a mouthwash regularly. I also had extremely chapped lips. I'm going to check out TheraBreath. Other thing I can do is ask the dental hygienist. |
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| Trotsky | Feb 26 2017, 02:01 AM Post #9 |
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If you want to turn your white tongue pink use LAVORIS. It's red and changes your tongue color in one gargle. |
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| swing | Feb 26 2017, 05:59 AM Post #10 |
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Mother used to say if we had a coated tongue we were constipated! I don't usually use mouth wash, as I brush after every meal. Two things in life I can not tolerate, a yucky mouth and dirty feet lol! It drives me crazy when I have food lodged in my teeth after a meal in a restaurant, I go to the washroom and floss! DH uses mouthwash, we were buying listerine brand, until the dental hygienist suggested this one. |
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| swing | Feb 26 2017, 06:02 AM Post #11 |
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If you want to turn your white tongue pink use LAVORIS. It's red and changes your tongue color in one gargle. :dog_laught.gif: |
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| wildie | Feb 26 2017, 08:26 AM Post #12 |
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That brings to mind the black balls that we ate as kids! They turned your tongue BLACK! |
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| Shorty | Feb 26 2017, 03:37 PM Post #13 |
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:44_noo.gif: I remember those Black Balls. Blackened tongue, that was the reason for eating them. Swing, I didn't catch which brand you changed to after Listerine. I know how you feel about a dirty mouth. I absolutely much brush my teeth after every meal. If I'm out for a meal, I carry plastic dental toothpicks. This is worse with age. |
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| swing | Feb 26 2017, 04:07 PM Post #14 |
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Swing, I didn't catch which brand you changed to after Listerine. Therabreath. |
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| Shorty | Feb 26 2017, 06:00 PM Post #15 |
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Yay. I just bought that today and tried it. No sweet taste. Rather pricey but worth it for a clean flavour and if it kills germs. |
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