WHAT IS TOOTHPASTE

Toothpaste is a gel dentifrice used to clean and maintain the aesthetics and health of teeth with the help of a toothbrush as an accessory.

GENERAL USES OF A TOOTHPASTE

Toothpaste is used with a toothbrush to brush and clean teeth before people were using different kinds of methods to clean their teeth and some of them were toxic ingredients that ended up damaging their enamel until toothpaste was made to solve all these problems

RAW MATERIALS USED IN A TOOTHPASTE

every modern toothpaste contain the following ingredients:binders, abrasives, sudsers, humectants, flavors (unique additives), sweeteners, fluorides, tooth whiteners, a preservative, and water.And binders that thicken the toothpaste or to make it a tube.This binders they make the liquid part not to separate with the solid part during storage time. This binders can be from magnesium aluminium silicates,sodium alginate,methylcellulose, carrageenan. There are also abrasives that are include in toothpaste that have several cleaning purposes as they posses different properties. This abrasive include dibasic calcium phosphate, calcium sulfate, tricalcium phosphate, and sodium metaphosphate hydrated alumina.

There are also flavors in modern toothpaste that help fresh the mouth and the palate because of humecants. To help reduce teeth decay and strengthen their teeth nowadays people rely on fluorides that are contained in toothpaste and the most common fluoride in the toothpaste is the sodium fluoride with sodium for tooth whitening purposes

HOW TOOTHPASTE IS MANUFACTURED

The ingredients that are mentioned above show a clear picture that there is chemistry involved in this modern toothpastes example of the substances involved are fluorides,sodium and calcium sulphate and others.first the ingredients are weighed and mixed in correct measures,so here there is use of stirrers and measuring devises that are used in chemistry environment. After mixing they are put in their containers or tubes by filling machines then packaged for sale. When these ingredients are brought to the factory for processing of the toothpaste they are tested for their quality these involves how safe are they for human as people might swallow them as they use these toothpaste. And these is the work of a lab technician in a chemistry world to check this ingredients.

Then the toothpaste is safe for sale in stores

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