Imagine if you could make your breath smell like lemon tea or cola? What if you could match your breath to that awesome lavender toiletry set your aunt gave you for Christmas? Or even better, what if you were so obsessed with wine that you spent hours a day with your nose in glass trying to sniff out things that made it unique like rose petals and vanilla and learned a company had started making a saccharine-free toothpaste that came in like 50 flavors like rose and sweet salt?
I walked into C.O. Bigelow last week and saw a display of tubes of toothpaste by a company called Breath Palate. Some looked cool (sweet salt and Indian curry) some looked like they would be cool if the weren’t overblown (strawberry and pumpkin pudding).
Next to all the individual tubes were four pre-packaged kits of five tubes each named; sweet tooth, east meets west, smoothie and, the one I chose, Zen palate. Contained inside were five, white, travel-sized tubes in the flavors of:
Lemon Tea, #24: Actually tastes exactly like a glass of well-brewed Darjeeling with a thin slice of lemon in it. It is quite a fun flavor, while brushing, but not the best taste to walk around with.
Cola, #31: Tastes like cola; not as acidic as Coke or sweet as Pepsi, more like RC, but doesn’t leave you with that stripped feeling on your teeth the beverages do.
Rose, #6: Who wouldn’t want their breath to smell like roses? With this one I brushed and made wife smell my breath, with no indication of what it was, and she knew right away.
Lavender, #20: Because most of the time I have smelled lavender as an isolated scent it was cologne or bath products, it reminded me of soap, in a good way.
Honey, #8: Not as sweet as you would think; it is fun to combine with the lemon tea.
I have no love for the ridiculously over-done mintiness of most toothpaste so, for me, these are a great discovery. These all left my mouth feeling clean, while still believing I would be able to taste more things later in the day. They say all natural on the label, but I honestly don’t know what that means in the world of toothpaste. I know it means nothing in food. It does taste like what it says it will and it makes your mouth feel clean. I promise I’ll post again if the dentist tells me I developed 20 cavities in the upcoming year.
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