Home remedies for acne come in all flavors of weird. There’s the egg yolk mask, handyman soap scrub, lidocaine rub and even a urine toner. And like any trial treatment, homemade treatments may work sheerly because of the placebo effect. But, does toothpaste posses any properties that support its usage as an acne treatment?
The first place to begin answering this question is to consider the ingredients in common toothpastes and what effect they have on the skin.
Fluoride:
In almost any tube of toothpaste you’ll find sodium monoflurorophosphate, or simply put, some chemical variety of fluoride. Fluoride prevents tooth cavities. But in the skin, fluoride typically causes more damage that it corrects. For example, medicals studies have reported that large does of fluoride could cause systemic poisoning. Though the amount of fluoride in tooth paste is less than one percent you may not want predispose yourself to risk.
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Although both bathroom essentials are inseparable and cannot generally function without the other, the toothbrush and toothpaste history is actually a story that spans several hundred years apart from the other.
But have you ever thought that the toothpaste came first before the toothbrush?
Regardless which one came first, the existence of both household items truly manifest mankind’s consciousness of dental hygiene and oral care dating as far as several thousand years back.
Incredibly, as early as 5000 BC, the Egyptians have already discovered a process of regularly cleaning their teeth using an abrasive powder made up of mixed ashes of burnt eggshells, ox hooves, pumice and myrrh.
There have been evidence that this powdered ash mixture is used to clean the teeth, by rubbing it on the enamel surface with the finger, prior to the discovery of the toothstick that served as the forerunner of the toothbrush.
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