Do You Brush Your Teeth The European Way?

No-one mentioning the bright white set of teeth on the bottom woman? I think it's a neat detail!
- Babushka just has such lovely white teeth.

I was always under the impression that parodontax and sensodine are for treating something or other based on their marketing.
I use Kemphor by Verkos Laboratories an independent Spanish company and Ohlala by Ohlala Laboratories Paris, a France based business as the name suggests. I ended up using them because they both have toothpaste containing Xylitol, an ingredient that helps in killing bacteria, something that the megacorp brands obviously don't care about.

Elmex isn't European anymore. It was founded in Switzerland, but was acquired by the American company Colgate-Palmolive in 2004.
- And Sensodyne is the opposite, I think. Started as American.

Elmex is owned by Colgate.
- I haven’t used elemex since I was a kid and I still can’t get that taste out of my mouth. Urgh I hate it!

Last year I learned from independent consumer product testing agencies that at least here in germany the best dental care is provided using the most basic and cheap toothpaste from discounter chains, so now I use those. So much cheaper, so much more toothpaste in the tube and actually doesn't secretly fuck your teeth up.
- Can you elaborate more please? Or give us a link to the report.
  
  https://www.test.de/Zahnpasta-im-Test-4607097-0/ german and 5€ for the data, but newspapers often share snippets of it for free
- and actually doesn't secretly fuck your teeth up.
  Well that's a ominous insinuation without proper sourcing.
  
  I just meant some big name brand toothpastes being very abrasive to (imo) a point of detriment

Sensodyne supremacy!
- Without Sensodyne I’d be fucked.
  
  Sensodyne started to cause my mouth to peel and stopped working as well as it was so I had to find a different product. I found a product to used silver. Been using it a year without peeling and my sensitivity is much better. Sadly I cannot find a non US manufacturer. But there may be one out there.
  
  Saaaaame ugh. Other toothpastes have Sodium Laurel Sulfate which gives me horrid mouth ulcers. I’ll shill for Sensodyne any day (as I did like an hour ago on another post hahaha)
- I might be misremembering, but I don't think you're supposed to use Sensodyne every time you brush. Read the packaging, but I think it says to use it like every other day or something.
- what is you guy's favourite version? mine is fresh mint!
  
  Gentle Whitening. Honestly I don't notice much whitening but I like the texture of it more than the others.

https://newteethbytom.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/8.a.-Toothpaste-Abrasiveness-Comparisons.pdf
For another morsel of information.
My current toothpaste is rated at 125

In Italy, pasta del capitano

I recently started using Ben and Anna 🇩🇪 because it comes in a glass jar. Also deodorant in paste form in glass jar from 4starlings 🇵🇱
yes i am slavic everything must be in a glass jar like pickles ok
- The deodorant is interesting, I've been semi looking for a replacement to avoid the plastic waste. I see in the instructions they advise to wait a while before putting your clothes on, have you found this to be necessary? I used to ruin all my T-shirts like this before changing brands and don't want to have this issue again.
  
  I once had a problem like this with some jar/paste deodorant I bought at Rossmann (ie not 4starlings), where the expensive t-shirt now has large fatty stains under the armpits that don't wash off.
  As for the 4starlings instructions I didn't really realize that was a thing that they said. I always just put pn my tshirt then put the deo on. On white tshirts there may be some light yellow metallic stains, but on colors other than white I didn't notice anything.

Sensodyne is the absolute shiiiit
- Y y you brush your teeth with shit...Wait, are you Shooter McGavin?

I use Happy Tabs from the Netherlands. Instead of coming in a tube, they are essentially mints in a jar but are made out of dehydrated toothpaste and fluoride. Just pop one in, chew it (don't swallow) and brush.
Super super convenient for camping also. That's why I tried them out. Been using them for 3 years or so
- How’s the cost of them? All the ones I have seen are absurdly more than normal toothpaste like 2-3x the price
  
  360 tabs is 36€ on their site. Comparable with the medium-high price category of things like 3D white I think for a year's supply.
  The thing is, you can stretch toothpaste very very far by just putting much less on, as well as tons of cheap brands. With tabs you have to use the recommended amount unless you want to put in work cutting them.
  It definitely isn't the cheapest but they have 0 plastic since 2025 in their tablet packaging (they used to have a cellophane bag but they changed their formula that made the tablets much harder and less prone to falling apart with humidity) which is pretty huge considering Colgate and oral B make up a pretty good share of plastic pollution.
  You can't have both cheap and sustainable in most cases.
- I use Smyle, similar idea, can also be found in certain stores nowadays. But I have enough still from their Toothpaste subscription still.

I massively appreciate all these memes highlighting American products.
Either I feel good that I've already fluked into buying more locally.
Or I realise I can do better, and I'm provided some alternatives.
- Same. So much focus is going towards moving people from tech giants, which are important, but so much harder to move away from. Smaller things like this still make a difference and are far more easier for people to switch from than say, youtube for example.

I do it the Japanese way, but I do need to see if P&G or J&J make the toothpaste I use when I eventually run out (I buy in bulk) and need to refill. Oddly, US toothpaste is an oft-requested gift when bringing things back from the US. My best guess is the formulations in some such as for whitening can't be sold here legally (but, as with many things, buying/importing for personal use is not illegal).

Oxygenol = Finnish

Bring back the original Parodontax flavor!

A link to a reddit post? What was the point of lemmy, someone remind me...
- Free Luigi
- Sensodyne is GSK now. I love me some novamin but isn't that American?
  
  Haleon plc (British) apparently owns Sensodyne now of days, which was a joint venture of GSK (owning 2/3rds) and Pfizer. GSK has sold most of their stake, and Pfizer sold their entire stake recently.
- dont you need content here? it wont happen when everyone post 19 post in 2 years

I use sodium bicarbonate with a dash of lemon juice and a finger.
- I use Brasso. I apply it with a toilet brush jammed into a drill.
  
  Omg a real Russian.

I use Oxygenol, a Finnish toothpaste.

In Italy we also have Curasept and Biorepair!
- Marvis is also Italian, owned by Ludovico Martelli who also own Proraso, with very cool "flavors".
  
  I'm currently working on a tube of Black Forest flavour.

I brush my teeth the German way:
Morgens Aronal abends Elmex.
- Morgens Haribol, abends Katjex
  EDIT:
  It's actually almost an option, according to an article from 2022 on Welt.de:
  Es wirkt fast wie ein Scherz: Ausgerechnet der Fruchtgummi-Hersteller Katjes übernimmt die Zahnpasta-Marke Theramed vom Dax-Konzern Henkel
  Or, in English:
  It almost looks like a joke: the fruit gum manufacturer Katjes of all places takes over the toothpaste brand Theramed from the Dax Group Henkel
  Very clever, I think, for one company to sell the "poison" and the "antidote"!
  But I also think that means we could add Theramed-brand products to the list of EU toothpastes?
- Nice how they get you to buy two different products.
- As a German I do this too.

Any EU maker of electric toothbrushes?
- How about Philips, they are from the Netherlands afaik.
  
  Overpriced brush heads, but 3rd party isn't hard to find.
  
  If it is like Philips Hue, they sold the brand long ago for Chinese manufacturers to use.

Solidox is my go-to. Norwegian brand, made in Sweden. Doesn't look like it's sold outside of Norway.

Unfortunately I bought a brand new Oral-B iO shortly before I started boycotting American products and now I'm kinda stuck with it. I don't want to waste it, but at the same time I'll have to keep buying their expensive brush heads.
I do at least use Sensodyne toothpaste.
- No off brand heads you can use?
  
  Apparently two brands make them, Cremodul and Trustnice; maybe a few others, but I'm not keen on using knock-offs because my teeth are quite fragile and apparently both of those brand knock-offs are much harder on the teeth. It also appears you can only really get them online from Amazon, which I'm definitely not keen on - out of the two, I'd rather throw extra money at Oral-B than a single £1 at Amazon.
  
  If anyone knows, also let me know.
- same situation here.
  Next time I'm buying UK https://www.trysuri.com/en-de

I use bioniq, which is made by the Dr. Wolff company in Germany. It has hydroxyapatite instead of fluoride.
- Thanks for suggesting this👌
- Also my toothpaste of choice. The teeth just feel cleaner after using it. Don’t know why.

A Q U A F R E S H

I have been using Zendium for years, I believe Unilever is from the UK. So, not EU, but at least not the US.
- Just to chime in, mentadent is from the Netherlands and also under unilever
- Indeed! It’s also Dutch and French. Btw I use signal (also from unilever)

Always.

We have https://professional.sunstargum.com/en-en/#cmp-accordion__item-europe too. There was really nice toothpaste from Urtekram, but it's gone from stores for a year now for some reason.

What's the best of those 4?

Jordan = Danish

Lmao all of these brands suck

Ive used flouride free toothpaste for over 10 years now, no problems at all with my teeth.
At this point im thinking it will be a life long habit.
Kingfisher is my brand but seems to be tons of them when I Google.