Toothpaste color coding

Brushing our teeth is a practice one must maintain regularly as it is an important part in maintaining our overall personal hygiene especially oral and dental. I have listed some essentials or benefits of it.

• It keeps our teeth healthy,away from cavities

• It gets food debris stuck in between teeth spaces which causes halitosis.

• boosts ones confidence..

• with good teeth though brushing, one can smile confidently which lights up ones aura.

Nevertheless, the question is what are you brushing your teeth with?

I have read in a magazine during highschool about the color codes used in toothpaste tubes. It is the small, rectangular and colored thing at the back bottom part of toothpaste tubes. The article said something about the ingredient contents of various toothpaste brands. Colors commonly used were green,blue,red and black. With green as ingredients all natural; blue is a mixture of natural plus medicine; red as a mixture of natural and chemical whereas black contains purely of chemical.

With that knowledge, I told my mom to look for toothpaste which has the green or blue rectangular shape at the back bottom of a toothpaste tube..I told her the relevance of it.. And because my mom is a seller of herbal products before, we used what she was selling which has the green color code. We know that herbal products of such brands are much more pricey than the regular ones we grab at the grocery store stands, right? But there are tough times when we can't afford pricey ones so we go with the usual things.

Until, one time I was browsing the internet when I came across a post related to toothpaste color coding.

these are what we are currently using

In relevance with the ingredients used, is color coding on toothpaste tubes fact or hoax? Tell me after reading further.

Have you noticed when you purchased your toothpaste brand that their are times that color codes changed?

Those color codes were used in manufacturing. It is used by light beam sensors to identify and notify packaging machines where to cut, fold and finally seal the tube. It is used also to adhere to the different types of packaging or different machines and sensors.

What toothpaste manufacturing company would like to pull its own product by doing the work of putting a small color code?Its irrational to do so, right?

It's very clear that color codes have nothing to do with the toothpaste's ingredients.

However, it's sad to see that color codes are still used by some companies on promoting their toothpaste products to attract consumers. Yet we have to know better. Its our choice which brand to use as we have different taste of brand and some causes allergy to some but not to some.

this kiddie toothpaste my kids used even have a violet code in it

Anyway, how can you tell what's in your toothpaste? Like all factory manufactured products, ingredients are found on the box or on the tube itself.According to American Dental Association,almost all toothpaste contain the same basic ingredients such as: abrasives which is responsible in cleaning teeth;humectants to soften it, flavouring agents for fresher breath, detergent to make it foam;flouride to fight off cavities, and binding agents to prevent it from separating.

#this was a repost of my old article which was an EXC badged but currently, it is not.

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