I recently started using Ben and Anna ๐ฉ๐ช because it comes in a glass jar. Also deodorant in paste form in glass jar from 4starlings ๐ต๐ฑ
yes i am slavic everything must be in a glass jar like pickles ok
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Lmao all of these brands suck
Solidox is my go-to. Norwegian brand, made in Sweden. Doesn't look like it's sold outside of Norway.
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.
What's the best of those 4?
Elmex isn't European anymore. It was founded in Switzerland, but was acquired by the American company Colgate-Palmolive in 2004.
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Jordan = Danish
I use bioniq, which is made by the Dr. Wolff company in Germany. It has hydroxyapatite instead of fluoride.
Also my toothpaste of choice. The teeth just feel cleaner after using it. Donโt know why.
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A Q U A F R E S H
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.
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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 use Oxygenol, a Finnish toothpaste.
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
Howโs the cost of them? All the ones I have seen are absurdly more than normal toothpaste like 2-3x the price
360 tabs is 36โฌ 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.
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Oxygenol = Finnish
In Italy we also have Curasept and Biorepair!
Marvis is also Italian, owned by Ludovico Martelli who also own Proraso, with very cool "flavors".
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I brush my teeth the German way:
Morgens Aronal abends Elmex.
Nice how they get you to buy two different products.
As a German I do this too.
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Sensodyne supremacy!
Without Sensodyne Iโd 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.
I had a similar issue with normal toothpaste and it turned out it was sensitivity to sodium lauryl sulphate. While some sensodyne pastes have SLS in them, the proper sensitivity stuff with NOVAMIN in the ingredients doesnโt and my peeling mucosa is no more.
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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.
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! Itโs also Dutch and French. Btw I use signal (also from unilever)
Elmex is owned by Colgate.
I havenโt used elemex since I was a kid and I still canโt get that taste out of my mouth. Urgh I hate it!