Toothpaste Tablets

Here’s a scene most Canadian travellers know too well: you’re standing at security, digging through your carry-on, and your toothpaste tube — the one you swore was under 100 ml — gets pulled out and tossed in the bin. It’s a small loss, but it stings, especially if you just paid a Toronto or Vancouver … Read more

Toothpaste tablets vs traditional toothpaste comes down to one question: does a dry, chewable tablet clean and protect teeth as well as the familiar gel in a tube? Toothpaste tablets are compressed, water-free dentifrice you bite into a paste, then brush as usual. Traditional toothpaste is a pre-mixed gel or cream, usually with fluoride. That’s … Read more

Somewhere around the third time I dropped a slippery, half-empty toothpaste tube behind the bathroom sink, I started wondering if there was a better way to do this. Turns out there is, and it’s shaped like a little pastel-coloured pebble. The search for the best toothpaste tablets has quietly become one of the more interesting … Read more