Weird Uses for Toothpaste, Toothbrushes, and Mouthwash

Here are some weird/random uses for your oral hygiene tools!

Toothpaste:
1. Quick acne treatment. Strangely enough, you can use a dab of toothpaste on a blemish and it will dry it out and take the red away. Works well in an “emergency situation” but only use the classic white kind.
2. Spread some toothpaste on scratched DVDs and CDs and let it sit for a few minutes. Then you can simply wipe it off and the toothpaste will have helped alleviate some of the scratch damage.
3. If you have white walls, you can use white paste to patch up small holes in you walls. It dries to a hard smooth finish.
4. Use it to remove stains from your carpet. Just put some on the desired area and give it a stiff brushing to help remove any stains!

Toothbrush:
1. Cleaning the rims of your tires. You can easily get into those tough to reach places that get all black and. Electric toothbrushes work well too.
2. Know when you take a sticker off of a plastic surface and it leaves behind the adhesive? Just soak it in warm water and brush it off (be careful though this can ruin the finish)!
3. Use it as a scrubber for your fingernails when working with oils, grease, or dirt.


Mouthwash:
1. Because mouthwash is mostly alcohol, soaking retainers, headgear, etc. will get rid of dried spit and bacteria that has developed on the appliance.
2. Mouthwash can ease the itching from poison ivy. Just soak a cotton ball with the stuff and gently pat down the affected area.
3. You’ve just chopped up some garlic to make some delicious garlic bread. But wait! Now you’re hands reek of garlic and you have garlic breath. No problem. Rinse your mouth with mouthwash then rinse your hands in it to get rid of the smell.

See, all those oral hygiene tools have many money saving uses! So stock up that way you will have them when you need them. And along with all these cool uses, be sure to use them to keep your mouth clean.

-Amanda and Erik