Comment on Toothbrushes don't list what they are made of.

• baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yes, that part is called “marketing”. It’s plastic, that’s what they’re calling “antimicrobial”.

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I had thought that maybe it was a non thing but alls the marketing did was make me worried that they are coating it with something like triclosan or such.

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    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s all horse shit, just like “whitening” toothpaste.

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      • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I actually stay away from whitening toothpaste because it usually means peroxide. Thats like what I want to know with the brushes. Is it something I don't like in it. It being nothing at all pure bs would be the best outcome.

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      • anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I don’t know man. I started using whitening toothpaste last month and I’m already getting pulled over by the cops a lot less.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Antimicrobial can be a lot of things, a lot of it is trademarked.

  This one:

  pro-sys.com/…/antibacterial-adult-toothbrush/

  Says it uses “StaClean™” So what does that mean?

  Well…

  prnewswire.co.uk/…/health-and-hygiene-announce-th…

  “Something, something, duPont”? My best guess is that it’s a plastic that is non-porous so microbes can’t live in it.

  This one says it’s infused with “Nano Silver”.

  linhart.nyc/pages/nano-silver-toothbrush

  Silver does have anti-microbial properties. “Nano Silver”? Who knows.

  Really you’d have to read the fine print on each brush and do the research to be vaguely certain. :)

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    see thats the thing. I look all over the packaging and it does not say what it is doing it. Just this bullet point of antimicrobial.

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      In that case it’s just impermeable to microbes.

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