Sodium Laurel Sulphate should be avoided like the plague! There should also be warnings on the toothpastes that use cinnamon to flavor the toothpaste (according to the woman who cleans my teeth). Ginger, she said, is fine; cinnamon is not. I don't remember what she said it does to the teeth, but she chastised one of the reps from a toothpaste company about bringing them toothpaste with cinnamon, and he said well, that is what people like. She went right back and told him that the company needs to not use stuff that can harm the teeth.
In one article, the Journal of the American Dental Association says that cinnamon can sensitize and irritate the mouth and is highly caustic when applied directly to our gums. Cinnamon irritates mucus membranes and the mouth is a mucous membrane. It can cause inflammation in the mouth even while killing bacteria in the mouth. http://jada.ada.org/content/126/9/1214.1.full.pdf -- "I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness" - Charles Dickens. http://dearjubilee-joyce.blogspot.com www.dearjubilee.com
