How to Make Your Own Toothpaste for Detoxification & Self-Dentistry

We are always experimenting, researching, and seeking the most optimal “do-it-yourself” healthy options when it comes to health/personal care/lifestyle.  We are interested in pursuing methods of nourishment while detoxifying our bodies from the unavoidable environmental toxins that unfortunately do inhabit our earth.  Having said that, when Daniel Vitalis (one of the co-founders of SurThrival) came up with a recipe for making toothpaste at home (detailed in the video below) that thoroughly cleans teeth while also facilitating detoxification when used, we were excited!

If you are anything like us, you may have also been on the quest for the perfect toothpaste but left the health food store unsatisfied in the toothpaste section with each visit made there.  While there are many organic or “all-natural” brands available out there that are close to being usable, most of them still contain less than optimal ingredients, such as calcium carbonate, sodium sulfate, etc.  Knowing and using this new “made at home” toothpaste option feels great for us because we are going through the creation process of it ourselves – We know the steps involved and are using ingredients that we trust.

In the video below, Daniel takes us through the step-by-step process of making this detoxifying toothpaste!  This recipe takes under ten minutes to make and would cost probably less than $100 to make a lifetimes supply of it!  Daniel also explains the importance of each ingredient used in the recipe and shares the names of some companies who do in fact sell toothpaste brands that we know and trust, which inspired the recipe in the video and also what we would use if we weren’t making our own toothpaste these days.

Daniel was inspired to make this toothpaste recipe after he began experimenting with tissue detoxification using Zeolites and Clay.  He realized that these substances, when rendered into a fine flour-like powder, have just the right amount of abrasiveness to take the place of the average toothpaste available in stores.

A word from Daniel about the use of this toothpaste:

“You can swallow this toothpaste, which yields all of the amazing health benefits of these detoxifying earth compounds.  In particular I am referring to zeolites ability to perform cation exchange - CEC or Cation Exchange Capacity is the term used in physics – which is its ability to electrically bind positively charged ions (heavy metals, radio-isotopes, etc) whilst trading out (in exchange) beneficial cations like potassium or calcium.  The toxic cations are then transported out of our bodies, along with the zeolite powder in our bowel movement.  The case with clay is very similar, though the phenomena in this case is referred to as adsorption, which is also an electrical binding, but in this case to the surface of the clay particle and without the accompanying exchange of a cation.

Keep in mind that this practice, consuming clay and other earth compounds, is perhaps one of the oldest of all human behaviors.  It has been practiced around the world and is present in virtually all pre-industrial populations.  Evidence for this has been found in archeological sites that predated our current human form, and anthropological surveys have found that it lives on in societies around the world today.  Actually, it is common to nearly all mammals, and in particular to broad ranging herbivores.  The behavior is termed “geophagy”, and is unquestionably part of the species-specific diet of human beings.  From my perspective, it appears that a diet that lacks the geophagy pattern could not be called a “natural diet” at all, as it would essentially be deficient in these all-important compounds.

Most of us were taught to spit our toothpaste out, which, given the host of less-than-beneficial ingredients (particularly fluoride) is pretty sound advice.  With this home-made clay or zeolite toothpaste, the goal is indeed to swallow it, moving it into the intestine where it can go to work mopping up industrial and nuclear debris that has bio-accumulated in our tissues.

When this clay or zeolite consumption is combined with sauna therapy (this dual approach is the subject of my last video), we arrive at a very effective life-long detoxification strategy that really works, and is easy to implement.”

We hope that you enjoy this video and find the information shared here to be inspiring and helpful!  Please leave your comments below this post or on the video linked in this blog letting us know what you liked, what you want to hear more about from us, and your own toothpaste experiments!

In Health Always,

The SurThrival Team