Colgate Tooth Powder | 100g (3.53 Ounce)

My mom is blind and prefers this toothpaste over liquid toothpaste.If you’re going to travel or you do a lot of red eye travel this is great to take with you so you can brush your teeth on a trip. Powders don’t get blocked with the TSA. Also it takes up such little space.

I love this so much. I adore every single thing about this old timey product.I have been on the hunt for effective toothpowder... or paste... which does the job, and does NOT taste like spearmint. I cannot stand mint flavors and most toothpaste are very intense and harsh to me. I got to the point where I literally couldn’t stand it anymore, and stopped brushing altogether.But... then I realized that wasn’t the best way to deal with it.So... i tried many pastes and powders over the last two years... most of them ultra expensive and no fluoride, etc. Toothpowder's with clay. Toothpowders with xylitol, etc. I wasn’t very impressed with ANY of them.Imagine my surprise when I found OLD FASHIONED Colgate tooth powder on amazon! For pennies!I remembered this stuff from waaay back!I ordered it, recieved it, tasted it ...and never looked back.I was suspicious of fluoride before buying this, but this tastes so wonderful that I don’t care. My teeth feel clean as whistle. It’s very satyisfing to brush with tooth powder, and especially this one. It’s the very best I’ve used.The flavor is WINTERGREEN which, for your information, is not actually a mint (wintergreen is a plant...but it is not in the mint plant family. Look it up).It tastes exactly like white lifesavers, which are my favorite flavored candy since childhood.The flavor is full, but mild in your mouth. No burning or tearing up...like you’ve eaten wasabi ...as you brush. It smells more intense than it tastes.The bottles last FOREVER. These are such an incredibly great deal. I bought my powder about 5 months ago! And I use a lot in my mouth. It’s still got about half left in it.Love. It’s a wonderful relief to find a way to brush my teeth where I can actually ENJOY the process.

I bought this just to experience tooth powder, which in the modern day United States is practically unheard of. There are some ultra-natural brands that sell it, but conventional major-brand tooth powder has not been a thing for some time. I don't recall ever seeing it, and I'm in my early 30s.I have extremely sensitive teeth, and I get ulcers in my mouth very easily from most dental hygiene products. I won't dock any points for this stuff doing the same thing, because 99% of other products on the market do it, too. My day-to-day toothpaste is Apagard Premio from Japan, since it is the ONLY brand I have ever found which one, does not contain fluoride (it instead remineralizes via hydroxyapatite), and two, demonstrably prevents mouth ulcers for me. It's a fantastic product.Either way, the call of the unusual got to me, and I had to try this out. The Colgate "Super Rakshak" (rakshak means protector) Tooth Powder is made in India for the Indian market, so don't be surprised when half of the writing on the package is not in English, or even the Latin alphabet. Opening the package isn't really difficult, just push through the seal with a Phillips screwdriver or maybe a big knitting needle.The taste is exactly like the Wint-o-Green Life Savers. A spot-on replication of it. So if you like that taste, you'll like this. Brushing with it isn't any different than paste, and your mouth feels clean and teeth very smooth afterwards. That leads me to believe the product is likely mildly abrasive. Like most toothpastes, especially those containing SLS, I did get a bump in my mouth after an hour or so, but again, this is just how my body is, I'm not holding it against the product.I took one star off only because using it is a bit more annoying than normal toothpaste. Overall, it's not bad, but it also doesn't knock my socks off. But if you LOVE green Life Savers and want to try something different, this just may be the product for you. Plus it's cheap, give it a shot.

Pros- Might be the best tasting toothpaste I've used.- Not gritty like I was expecting.- Fluorinated, which is rare in tooth powders.- Cheapest toothpowder I could find.- According to calculations I've seen for other tooth powders the 100g should last 6 months at 2 washes a day. Which means if you buy the 200g 2 pack, one person can brush their teeth for 2 years for about $13 or $6.50/year.- Bottle looks so cute and vintage.- Bottle can be recycled curbside.Cons- Bottle is impossible to open without tools. I used a wine bottle opener to poke holes in the plastic lid, which was enough to move power to an old medicine bottle that I dip my toothbrush into.- The tin comes wrapped in plastic, which is so silly, it will dent in shipping, but it's steel, it's not going to puncture.

It’s great tooth powder like I used in the fifties. But please, tell me how do you open this? You lift the hinged top, but there is no way to get the powder out! I had to hammer in an awl to open a hole. Please look into this problem.