> Beats plaque and tartar buildup like the leading brands
It's important to note that it's the actual brushing of teeth that does the heavy lifting. Toothpaste is pretty inconsequential.
Show HN: I invented a caffeinated toothpaste
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#202I invented the world’s first caffeinated toothpaste - get a rush while you brush! I’m a serial entrepreneur, YCW16. Though it is a simple idea, I went through at least 60 formula iterations before I got the flavor chemistry right. This toothpaste seriously works. I actually had to lower the caffeine content from the original version. Our toothpaste gives you a quick caffeine boost that works as soon as you start brus…
I posted another comment, but since you also brush your teeth at night, if I bought your product I'd have to use that in the morning and another brand before going to bed. Did you think about this? People might not want to have 2. I was going to buy it but then I thought about this.
Actually, I thought this was great. One tube for the morning with caffeine, one tube at night with fluoride.
Re: Show HN: I invented a caffeinated toothpaste
#203I invented the world’s first caffeinated toothpaste - get a rush while you brush! I’m a serial entrepreneur, YCW16. Though it is a simple idea, I went through at least 60 formula iterations before I got the flavor chemistry right. This toothpaste seriously works. I actually had to lower the caffeine content from the original version. Our toothpaste gives you a quick caffeine boost that works as soon as you start brus…
Your website does not contain a list of ingredients, nor do you show photos of your box with government required disclosures on it. You admit that your toothpaste does not have fluoride, but does it contain SLS, propylene glycol, DEA, glycerin, hydrated silica, or artificial sweeteners? If so, please discontinue your product or change your formula. None of those ingredients are safe for use in toothpaste and help cau…
I use Pepsodent and it contains hydrated silica. Why is it not safe?
Re: Show HN: I invented a caffeinated toothpaste
#204LD50 is 75–100 cups of coffee for a 70 kilogram adult... so eating a tube of this can be fatal for adults. Don't leave this where children can find it.
If you are afraid of your children eating dangerous amounts of something from a tube, look no further than normal toothpaste.
I believe this statement is short-sighted, and I would strongly recommend child-proof packaging for this product.
If a child eats a tube of toothpaste, it's not great for them[1], but eating a significant amount of caffeinated toothpaste would most likely kill them.
This is a problem because people don't normally store and secure toothpaste the way they do bleach or pesticides, and also because this product is formulated to have an interesting and attractive taste - i.e, it presents a kind of "attractive nuisance".
Ref [1] http://www.poison.org/articles/2015-dec/toothpaste
"It is unlikely for a child to have anything beyond short-term stomach upset from eating toothpaste. In rare cases, if an excessive amount of fluorinated toothpaste is swallowed, there can be more serious problems. Fluoride can lower the amount of calcium and magnesium in the body. Toothpaste formulated to help with sensitivity contains a second ingredient – a nitrate – that can also cause more serious problems if large amounts are ingested. This is unlikely to occur from unintentional ingestions by children, especially of over-the-counter toothpaste."
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure if you're sarcastic. If not, what does Communism have to do with anything?
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.
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#208Can't you see? You're not making toothpaste better. You're making coffee worse.
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#210> Power Toothpaste does not contain Fluoride. We know many of you don't want fluoride in your toothpaste. This seems bizarre to me. People don't want fluoride in their toothpaste? Why not? Dentists seem pretty unanimous that everyone should brush twice a day with fluoride toothpaste.
Fluoridated toothpaste is, for regulatory purposes, a drug; caffeinated toothpaste is a food item. So this is just another way of saying, "We didn't want to deal with the regulatory burden."
But, man, one tube of this thing is roughly the LD50 for caffeine ingestion. This is definitely a "keep out of the reach of children" product.