My Favorite Natural Dental Care Products
My Favorite Natural Dental Care Products
**UPDATE** September 2025
I can no longer endorse the Health Ranger Tooth Salt. I used it for 1.5 years and over time, it made my teeth yellow. I believe this is due to the color of the Neem powder. I wish the tooth powder could be made lighter in color, as well as gentler; then I would be a fan again.
I’ve been using this for about 8 months – Himilayan Botanicals with Nano Hydroxyapatite. I feel it is helping remineralize my teeth. It’s obviously not as good at cleaning as a powder, but you have to preserve your enamel.
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I am not a fan of fluoride – in water, in toothpaste, in anything – so for as long as I can remember, I’ve been into ‘natural’ toothpaste.
When I was a kid, I used Tom’s of Maine in the metal tube (before they sold out to Colgate-Palmolive), and over the years, I’ve tried so many products.
Much like my hunt for effective natural deodorants – which ultimately led to the simplest of solutions – I now prefer to make my own toothpowder (recipe below) but still have these in rotation.
FOR BRUSHING
HEALTH RANGER TOOTH SALT WITH NEEM
This product tastes salty so if that’s a turn-off, don’t try it. I add a few extra drops of peppermint oil because I like it extra minty.
| Ingredients: Baking Soda (Sodium Bicarbonate), Sea Salt (Sodium Chloride), Organic Neem Powder (Azadirachta Indica), Myrrh Gum, Organic Peppermint Essential Oil and Organic Clove Essential Oil. |
Natural beauty pioneer Nadine Artemis (Living Libations) has some great oral care products, as well as a book devoted to holistic dental care.
I use her NEEM ENAMELIZER ALKALINIZING TOOTHPASTE
If you like a more traditional toothpaste in a tube, free of fluoride and SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate), this is a good one.
FOR OIL SWISHING / OIL PULLING
FLOSS
TONGUE SCRAPING
EASIEST DIY TOOTH POWDER
This is so easy, effective and yet gentle to tooth enamel.
Mix in small glass jar:
1/3 C baking soda
15-30 drops peppermint essential oil
Shake.
Dip dry toothbrush into mixture.
Catherine Tingey
Entrepreneur, yogini, designer, award-winning filmmaker, personal trainer and former marathon runner. She left a career in finance to start her own business and along the way, became a yoga teacher. She has been practicing yoga for 33 years and teaching privately for 13 years.
About the Author
Catherine Tingey+ Entrepreneur, yogini, designer, award-winning filmmaker, personal trainer and former marathon runner. She left a career in finance to start her own business and along the way, became a yoga teacher. She has been practicing yoga for 33 years and teaching privately for 13 years.
