Toothpaste is a daily staple in more than 300 million Americans’ oral hygiene routines, and more people are looking for sustainable oral care products that are made with safe ingredients and reusable ...

If you look on the back of your toothpaste container you will more likely than not find a long list of indistinguishable ingredients and a formidable warning: do not swallow. When you take a closer ...

A federal judge in San Francisco wrestled Tuesday with a metaphysical question: is a toothpaste tube made of completely recyclable materials really recyclable if all of the waste processors refuse to ...

When you’re brushing your teeth and you’ve squeezed out the last bit of toothpaste, you probably toss the empty tube in the trash. Few people realize that most toothpaste tubes are now recyclable—at ...

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My bathroom feels like a land of trash. Everywhere I look, there are small products and tubes that are destined for the trash. A container of moisturizer lasts only a handful of months. Any creams or ...

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All this contact can make your toothpaste cap a germ magnet. Bathroom surfaces can also harbor bacteria from aerosolized ...

Dear Heloise: How much longer do we have to put up with tubes of toothpaste that we can't empty like we used to by rolling up the tube? I have to cut open the tube, where almost one-third of the ...

Instead of the white foam most of us normally produce when brushing our teeth, activated charcoal toothpastes coat teeth (temporarily) in a dusky slurry. Yet despite their dark hues, many companies ...

Colgate has launched recyclable toothpaste tubes with limited edition messaging. Colgate-Palmolive has launched a recyclable toothpaste tube with limited edition messaging to build recycling awareness ...