Dear god, dogs would bark at that in the street! What a f'ing bin ripper!
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Metal cutting blade for my multi tool
Sold: two foals, one pony, & sending another pony out on breeding loan.
Spent a fiver & made £14,000
Sold: two foals, one pony, & sending another pony out on breeding loan.
Spent a fiver & made £14,000
Twelve coconut halves with bird food in them.
Spent £9.99 and will have six pairs of coconut halves to make hose clipperty clop noises with after.
Spent £9.99 and will have six pairs of coconut halves to make hose clipperty clop noises with after.
You could audition for Patsy …. In Life of Brian !!
But what was the question
A 20mm poly pipe stopcock
Make sure you use the inserts unless you are going on to copper……
Always use inserts, got bags full of them, 20mm & 25mm
Some rim wax.
Toothpaste.……..shame on you.
us eco warriors started using tablets ages ago - most toothpaste tubes arenan’return to,earth’ time estimated at between 100 and 1000 years.
I like these,,and so does my dentist
But there’s an elephant in the bathroom. Do toothpaste tablets actually work?
One ingredient you won’t find in many tablets is fluoride, a proven cavity-buster that’s been standard in toothpaste since Procter & Gamble released Crest in 1956. Crest’s original ad campaign featured Norman Rockwell paintings of toothy, corn-fed American children and the caption: “Look, Mom! No cavities!”
“There’s a lack of scientific evidence on how good toothpaste tablets are, in terms of oral health,” says Dr James Fernando, dentist and research fellow at Melbourne Dental School. “Toothpaste should be able to remove plaque, prevent gum disease and tooth decay, and fluoride is a big part of that.There’s not much clinical data out there on toothpaste tablets, and to be honest, I couldn’t find any lab data either.”
Fernando says the lack of fluoride in many tablet brands is worrying, and even though some do contain useful active ingredients, like sodium bicarbonate and xylitol, without further study there’s no way to know how much of that goodness ends up in your teeth. “Put it this way,” he says. “I personally wouldn’t be telling patients, ‘Hey, use this product’.”
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I tried three brands of tablet, and none advertised fluoride as an ingredient. In fact, in this space, many toothpaste tablets actively flaunt their fluoride-free status, and that’s a worry because research suggests fluoride-free oral care products, often marketed as “natural”, tend to increase cavities. One exception to this is German brand DentTabs, which does contain fluoride and is widely available online in Australia.
So, how do you actually use toothpaste tablets? Toothy Tabs, from British cosmetics brand Lush, directs users to “nibble one tab to form a toothpaste and then use a wet toothbrush to clean as normal.” Most tablets feature similar crush-brush-and-rinse instructions.
You can literally chew toothpaste tablets on-the-go, like breath mints, but I found the effect to be underwhelming and weird. The tablet dissolves around your gums in a blast of eye-watering menthol, then disappears, like chewing minty paracetamol.
The initial “nibbling” phase with all three brands I tried was, to be frank, pretty unpleasant and vaguely medicinal. Compressed powder tablets do not masticate well. Two brands also left some kind of gritty, mineral residue behind (not a big deal – a few rinses and it washes away).
The overall experience doesn’t quite live up to my Fifth Element fantasies, but I’m sure toothpaste in 1898 wasn’t much fun either.
If tablets are good for the planet, and evidence for their cavity-preventing capacity materialises, I’m happy to go tubeless.
One ingredient you won’t find in many tablets is fluoride, a proven cavity-buster that’s been standard in toothpaste since Procter & Gamble released Crest in 1956. Crest’s original ad campaign featured Norman Rockwell paintings of toothy, corn-fed American children and the caption: “Look, Mom! No cavities!”
“There’s a lack of scientific evidence on how good toothpaste tablets are, in terms of oral health,” says Dr James Fernando, dentist and research fellow at Melbourne Dental School. “Toothpaste should be able to remove plaque, prevent gum disease and tooth decay, and fluoride is a big part of that.There’s not much clinical data out there on toothpaste tablets, and to be honest, I couldn’t find any lab data either.”
Fernando says the lack of fluoride in many tablet brands is worrying, and even though some do contain useful active ingredients, like sodium bicarbonate and xylitol, without further study there’s no way to know how much of that goodness ends up in your teeth. “Put it this way,” he says. “I personally wouldn’t be telling patients, ‘Hey, use this product’.”
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I tried three brands of tablet, and none advertised fluoride as an ingredient. In fact, in this space, many toothpaste tablets actively flaunt their fluoride-free status, and that’s a worry because research suggests fluoride-free oral care products, often marketed as “natural”, tend to increase cavities. One exception to this is German brand DentTabs, which does contain fluoride and is widely available online in Australia.
So, how do you actually use toothpaste tablets? Toothy Tabs, from British cosmetics brand Lush, directs users to “nibble one tab to form a toothpaste and then use a wet toothbrush to clean as normal.” Most tablets feature similar crush-brush-and-rinse instructions.
You can literally chew toothpaste tablets on-the-go, like breath mints, but I found the effect to be underwhelming and weird. The tablet dissolves around your gums in a blast of eye-watering menthol, then disappears, like chewing minty paracetamol.
The initial “nibbling” phase with all three brands I tried was, to be frank, pretty unpleasant and vaguely medicinal. Compressed powder tablets do not masticate well. Two brands also left some kind of gritty, mineral residue behind (not a big deal – a few rinses and it washes away).
The overall experience doesn’t quite live up to my Fifth Element fantasies, but I’m sure toothpaste in 1898 wasn’t much fun either.
If tablets are good for the planet, and evidence for their cavity-preventing capacity materialises, I’m happy to go tubeless.
that’s why I use tablets containing fluoride.
I have discussed using tablets with my dentist and she is all for the transition to tablets for environmental reasons although emphasised that to date in depth clinical research hasn’t happened. What she has said is that it has not been necessary for me to have any fillings or visit a hygienist since I have been using them. Albeit I have a mouth full of compressed teeth and mercury from ‘treatment’ by dentists in the 60s and 70s.p so there isn’t a lot of damage left to do. Mrs B isn’t totally convinced - she has used the tablets occasionally and commented how clean her teeth felt after compared to using paste….but that is only one measure of performance.
It is inevitable that toothpaste in tubes will die a death, no doubt the big boys will be doing everything they can to prevent it happening to protect their existing products.
As an aside, the tablets I use come in a compostable bag…and Amazon pit it in a plastic bag for delivery. Genius. . Right up there with Morrisons selling biodegradable cotton buds and packaging them in an acrylic box.
As another aside, the article above seems to be assessing the ‘on the move mouth freshening bombs’ like you get in motorway service station toilets ….a totally different product to tablets that are used with a brush.
As an aside, my daughter when getting joe to brush his teeth says “you don’t want to be a mucky teeth Keith”
At rugby practice a few weeks back one of the women there called to her husband “Keith” straight away Joe shouts “mucky teeth Keith”
At rugby practice a few weeks back one of the women there called to her husband “Keith” straight away Joe shouts “mucky teeth Keith”
