5 safe toothpaste choices for babies and toddlers
by Molly Balint posted in Products & Prizes
Toothbrushing with my toddler is quite a chore. We've graduated from the "lockjaw" stage wherein she refuses to open her mouth for me to brush her teeth and entered the "I eat toothpaste for fun" stage. And I'm completely mortified to admit, I've even caught her sucking on the end of the tube.
I've enlisted the help of her big sisters, hoping they could get her to embrace the fun involved in spitting into the sink. Big, dramatic, sloppy spitting by all of us, and still she laughs and smiles at us all making fools of ourselves...and swallows.
I'm so grateful to this BabyCenter Blog for opening my eyes this summer to the dangers of certain sunscreens I was slathering on the backs of my babes every day. Rachel's post had me scouring the EWG site for the brands of sunscreen I was using, only to be horrified at the horrible ratings they had received.
But EWG also has an amazingly in-depth Skin Deep database that helps us make safe choices for cosmetics, including toothpastes for children. I highly recommend you spend a little time on SkinDeep. The site is easily searchable and extremely organized for tracking down the health ratings for cosmetics we use every day.
They rate their toothpastes on a scale from zero to 10. Anything with a score from zero to two is considered to have a very low hazard. Products who score from three to six are moderate, and anything above that is considered high. They take into account ...
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