I’m celebrating 18 years of cavity-free children this year! I’m celebrating by sharing a Minty Sweet Tooth Powder Recipe that is an all-natural, child-friendly tooth powder that masks the salty baking soda and is tasty enough to encourage kids to brush.

I’m not sure which shocks me more: I will have an 18-year-old or that we’ve made it through 18 years and 8 children without a single drilling. Or that we’ve done it without any fluoridated city water, jugs of fluoridated water for baby, or nasty little fluoride rinses in homeroom. I honestly can’t remember if we’ve ever even bought fluoridated toothpaste for our children. We made the switch ourselves somewhere close to 15 years ago and have been cavity-free right alongside our children.

Why Use Tooth Powder

Why the break from mainstream dental care? Rumors of fluoridated toothpaste being a neurotoxin (translation: brain poison) reached my ears and I guess I wasn’t any more willing to make guinea pigs out of my kid’s bodies then than I am now (*cough* GMO’s *cough*). Recent studies from Harvard of all places back up that putting fluoride in kid’s bodies might not be the wisest thing to do. (Pun intended.) And that’s not to mention all of the other chemicals found in a tube of toothpaste and the effects they have on bodies, especially little ones. I didn’t have too many little children before I realized that I couldn’t keep buying a $6 tube of fluoride-free toothpaste every week. After all, those squeeze tubes are so much fun to play with, don’t you know? I needed a tooth powder recipe.

But I needed an all- natural a tooth powder recipe that masked the saltiness of the baking soda yet was sweet enough to encourage them to want to brush their teeth, and minty enough to freshen their breath. This Sweet and Minty Tooth Powder Recipe was our winner. You know what else I love about it? The versatility. You can customize it to meet your needs.

Tooth Powder Recipe Add-Ins

Powdered sage or activated coconut charcoal could be added to whiten your teeth. Or I will just wet my toothbrush with a little hydrogen peroxide which will whiten teeth and kill germs. I add bentonite clay to mine for several weeks a couple times a year (such as in the spring and fall) as part of a detox. (I’m a big girl and can handle the flavor without the mint and leave it out when detoxing so I can swallow the clay since I don’t want to ingest essential oils.)

Other options could be powdered cloves or cinnamon both of which are antibacterial. Black walnut hull powder naturally builds tooth enamel.

Making the recipe is also kid-friendly and my 7-year-old is usually the one whipping up the next batch when we run out. Yep. It’s that easy. So between the simplicity, frugality, and healthfulness, there’s nothing stopping you from giving it a try! In the end, I’m once again impressed with the fact that the DIY natural health & beauty recipes I try (and here are 50 of them) work just as well, if not better, than anything I buy from the store. The soap is better, the lip balm is better, heck even the deodorant is better! And all of it without any chemicals! And much easier on the wallet!

Minty Sweet Tooth Powder Recipe