Category Archives: Questionable Ingredients in Name Brand Toothpaste

Ever think about how products that are sold as rodent and insect poisons and engine degreasers have found their way into your toothpaste ? Probably not or you still wouldn’t be using them. Part of the problem is that toothpaste traditionally is not marketed as a product to be consumed orally. It is meant to be expelled after use so it is regulated by the FDA the same as cosmetics and potions designed to be used externally. This is how something like triclosan, meant to be used as an external anti-microbial, find’s it’s way into your mouth as well.

Triclosan
16 Mar
Questionable Ingredients in Name Brand Toothpaste

Triclosan in your Big Corporation’s Toothpaste Line

Synthesized under a reflux process, 2,4,4′-trichloro-2′-methoxydiphenyl ether is treated with aluminium chloride. Triclosan can be synthesized through a three-step process starting with 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)pyrrolidin-2-one. The 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)pyrrolidin-2-one is dehydrated with either zinc or calcium oxide into 1-vinylpyrrolidin-2-one. Then, 1-vinylpyrrolidin-2-one can be reacted with 5-chloro-2-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)phenyl acrylate in n-heptane to form triclosan.  Then you put it in your mouth if […]

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