Big ass warning! This is not a joke!

[Archae]

Don't buy toothpaste from those "dollar stores."

They can be dangerous.

Claim: Some dollar stores sell expired and foreign, non-ADA-approved formulations of toothpaste.

Status: True.

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/toothpaste.asp

[Don_G]

1. If It Works

I buy and use it. If it's under fifty-cents at the flea-market, I'll try it once and toss it if it dosen't work or use it as a polishing compound on my car.

Thanks for the warning though. I had forgotten about checking labels as carefully as I should.

[the Kelly Gang]

2. you can polish silver with it as well

[Red State Rebel]

11. and clean jewelry! n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

3. I can't imagnie buying anything...

that could be swallowed from the dollar stores.

OK, most of the food they get could just be from bankrupt stores or overstocks, but they don't go through normal channels, so they could end up with recalled, expired, rejected, or other such stuff.

Imported food is inspected by the Agriculture Department, and rejected if it doesn't meet standards, or is just rotten. The inspections aren't perfect, so some lousy stuff does get through, and reputable distributors will junk it.

Besides disreputable distributors selling the stuff, there is the ongoing fraud of a few crooked importers having their food rejected and then selling the food in Mexico as pet food ingredients. Some unscrupulous Mexicans will then repackage if necessary and bring it up here as Mexican products.

I remember one particularly nasty case where a shrimp importer would have his Indian shrimp rejected in San Diego, change the paperwork and have it rejected again in Seattle and Vancouver, collecting insurance money each time, then dumping it in Mexico where it would be treated with formaldehyde and sold here as frozen Gulf shrimp.

Aflatoxin in peanut butter, pesticides in fruit preserves...

[Gothic Sponge]

4. I buy all my toothpaste used.

[Jake_DeLeon]

5. best toothpaste I ever used was from the dollar store.

we ran out of the Crest toothpaste that we use, and there was this tube of older dollar store baking soda toothpaste (probably about a year or two old).

I used it and it made my mouth feel clean in a way that no other toothpaste ever has.

After that ran out I went to the grocery store to buy some "regular" baking soda crest toothpaste. I figured the bakingsoda is what made the generic toothpaste so good.

I couldnt find any regular baking soda toothpaste, there was toothpaste with baking soda but it was all the more expensive funked out shit with toothwhithers or mouthwash built in or some other crap.

I couldnt fine just plain name brand baking soda toothpaste, I tried the most normal sounding toothpaste I could find with baking soda, but it still didnt make my mouth feel all that clean.

So now I use dollar store baking soda toothpaste.

[NoPasaran]

6. Welcome to DU!

:hi:
You're up early!

[Jake_DeLeon]

8. Thanks.

[Guy_Montag]

7. It's probably the peroxide in it, that makes your mouth feel so clean...

:hi:

Welcome.

[Jake_DeLeon]

9. actually

the crest toothpaste that I used had baking soda and peroxide.

It didnt make my mouth feel as clean as the dollar store toothpaste with only bakingsoda.

[pagerbear]

10. Well, actually

...isn't it the act of brushing that does more than the toothpaste itself? Not that I'm an expert or anything.