I regularly 'squegie' the tube over the edge of the basin to force all the toothpaste up to the nozzle to counter the 'suck back'.Arch said:And my Mum reckons the pastic tubes are a con, because they suck back the toothpaste (unlike a metal one that stays squished), making people think they've run out before they have...
Night Train said:I regularly 'squegie' the tube over the edge of the basin to force all the toothpaste up to the nozzle to counter the 'suck back'.
I used to do that with the aluminium tubes too to ensure it is completely squashed flat to get every bit of paste out.
goo_mason said:When I first started at my new dentist, he put me on a high-fluoride toothpaste that you could only buy via them (no high-street toothpaste had a fluoride level that high). It was mighty expensive, so now I use the Tesco own-brand stuff, but always make sure I pick the one with the highest fluoride content. That's one of the 70-odd pence tubes; weird, all those frighteningly expensive toothpastes in the shops are usually pretty low on fluoride.
There's been a marked improvement in my dental health in the years since I started using the high-fluoride ones, so I'm sticking with them.
Maybe you were thinking of Eucryl. It's a pink powder that comes in a plastic tub nowadays.Arch said:My dad used to use a powdered smokers toothpaste, and we used stuff that came as a paste in a tin. Can't remember what it was called...
Lay the nearly empty tube on the work surface and squeegie the nearly flat tube with the handle of a knife or similar.Arch said:I'm careful to get all possible tomato purree out of the tube - just everyso often my grip is wrong or slips, and the tube bends the wrong way, and I end up with tomato purree down my front!
Kirstie said:Is euthymol a scots thing? The only person I know who uses it is scots - lots of you scots on here seem to like it. It's like someone has blowtorched your mouth and then doused the flames with TCP. Gah. Horrible.
Arch said:And my Mum reckons the pastic tubes are a con, because they suck back the toothpaste (unlike a metal one that stays squished), making people think they've run out before they have....
I used to do that with the aluminium tubes. I stopped doing it with the plastic ones when there wasn't anything in it after the last squeegie. I do sometimes suck the nozzle to get the last bit in my mouth, if it didn't come out on the last squeeze.simoncc said:I cut the plastic tube open and scrape my brush on the inside to get the last few cleans out of it. I've banned others from throwing tubes away before I've done this. They start on the new tube while I save the planet by emptying the old one properly.