Our wonderful friends at The Natural Dentist helped us update their info page with an amazing list of FAQs on their products and green oral care in general.

We get this question a lot. Here’s what it says on Tom’s of Maine Web site:

We use 100% aluminum tubes because they are environmentally sensitive. They are recyclable in most communities. They also help maintain our natural flavors. The tubes that we use are lined with a thin layer of food-grade plastic (meaning a pharmaceutical grade inert epoxy which is approved safe for use with food ingestibles) that prevents the toothpaste from coming into contact with the aluminum.

Contains no fluoride, aluminium, artificial sweeteners or detergents.

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