I’m back to using my homemade toothpaste recipe and I don’t have any problems with it. But it sounds like maybe you’ve got some stuff going on. Cavities and bleeding gums is not fun! Have you tried oil pulling? If the bleeding is due to bacteria/gingivitis, the oil pulling can really help with that.

Good luck lady, and don’t get discouraged!

Also . . . boyfriend? Is this why we havn’t seen you around here much lately??? ;-)

I used to never have *any* cavities until I didn’t visit the dentist for 2-3 years (pretty much the time I’ve been vegan) and all of a sudden they found like 5 cavities :S And I always brush my teeth really carefully and regularily every morning and every night.

By the way, I recently finally tried your toothpaste recipe, it did turn out very saline, but I didn’t mind it. I do miss the extremely fresh feeling after using some crazy mint-flavoured foaming toothpaste full of chemicals (Colgate etc, although I know they’re the worst) and since the soda-based paste doesn’t foam at all and wants to run out of your mouth in seconds, I feel like I don’t brush my teeth for long enough anymore. Also, I’ve neved had issues with tender or bleeding gums but with the soda-based toothpaste they’ve started to bleed a little.

So I’ve been wondering how the toothpaste worked out for you guys and if you’re still using it and happy with it? :)

Ok, a quick love list, just for the kicks!
1. My veganized boyfriend and how great of a cook he is!
2. My kitty who has grown up so fast but is still amusing me with everything she does every day :D Animals are just amazing.
3. The end of the term and planning of the next term and future in general :)

It’s a little late to wish happy weekend, so I’m gonna say happy beginning of a new week!

I used to never have *any* cavities until I didn’t visit the dentist for 2-3 years (pretty much the time I’ve been vegan) and all of a sudden they found like 5 cavities :S And I always brush my teeth really carefully and regularily every morning and every night.

By the way, I recently finally tried your toothpaste recipe, it did turn out very saline, but I didn’t mind it. I do miss the extremely fresh feeling after using some crazy mint-flavoured foaming toothpaste full of chemicals (Colgate etc, although I know they’re the worst) and since the soda-based paste doesn’t foam at all and wants to run out of your mouth in seconds, I feel like I don’t brush my teeth for long enough anymore. Also, I’ve neved had issues with tender or bleeding gums but with the soda-based toothpaste they’ve started to bleed a little.

So I’ve been wondering how the toothpaste worked out for you guys and if you’re still using it and happy with it? :)

Ok, a quick love list, just for the kicks!
1. My veganized boyfriend and how great of a cook he is!
2. My kitty who has grown up so fast but is still amusing me with everything she does every day :D Animals are just amazing.
3. The end of the term and planning of the next term and future in general :)

It’s a little late to wish happy weekend, so I’m gonna say happy beginning of a new week!

I used to never have *any* cavities until I didn’t visit the dentist for 2-3 years (pretty much the time I’ve been vegan) and all of a sudden they found like 5 cavities :S And I always brush my teeth really carefully and regularily every morning and every night.

By the way, I recently finally tried your toothpaste recipe, it did turn out very saline, but I didn’t mind it. I do miss the extremely fresh feeling after using some crazy mint-flavoured foaming toothpaste full of chemicals (Colgate etc, although I know they’re the worst) and since the soda-based paste doesn’t foam at all and wants to run out of your mouth in seconds, I feel like I don’t brush my teeth for long enough anymore. Also, I’ve neved had issues with tender or bleeding gums but with the soda-based toothpaste they’ve started to bleed a little.

So I’ve been wondering how the toothpaste worked out for you guys and if you’re still using it and happy with it? :)

Ok, a quick love list, just for the kicks!
1. My veganized boyfriend and how great of a cook he is!
2. My kitty who has grown up so fast but is still amusing me with everything she does every day :D Animals are just amazing.
3. The end of the term and planning of the next term and future in general :)

It’s a little late to wish happy weekend, so I’m gonna say happy beginning of a new week!

I haven’t baked my own bread yet but my mom does it all the time and hers comes out really nice and dark. It’s sort of like traditional Estonian rye sourdough I guess, but I wonder what it is that really determines the hue of bread? My mom always adds a handful of hemp seeds which makes it perfect (: