The Macrobiotic Stoner

Ingredients
(Makes about 1/4 cup)
-3 tbsp sodium bicarbonate (baking soda)
-1 tbsp sodium chloride (salt – as an abrasive)
-1 tbsp olive or sunflower oil (gives it a pasty quality)
-6 drops essential pepermint oil (for taste)
-6 drops tea tree oil (a natural antibacterial)

Directions
Mix the baking soda and salt together in a bowl until well-integrated. Next, mix together the oils: squeeze the appropriate amounts of essential oil & tea-tree oil into a tablespoon, and then cover with olive/sunflower oil to the brim before pouring over the powder. This is to ensure consistent taste & consistency throughout. Mix until “pasty.” Store in a closed jar (ideally glass or ceramic – I’ve been hearing too many weird things about plastics and phyto-estrogens lately), at room temperature.

Comments
Infinitely preferably to commercial toothpastes, not only because it’s missing that icky toothpaste aftertaste likely to ruin one’s breakfast in favor of a subtle minty-salty freshness, but my incidence of cavities has gone down considerably since using it. Of course, this could be the result of a few factors right around the same time I started making it – such as greater attention to my dental hygiene in general, as well as the reduction of refined sugar in my diet to nearly nil.