Want a Natural Toothpaste Recipe?
9 Ways to Make Toothpaste

If you're looking for a natural toothpaste recipe, I've collected nine here. These homemade toothpaste recipes range from a simple coconut oil, baking soda, and essential oil blend to more involved ways to make toothpastes that claim to help remineralize tooth enamel. You can also make mouthwash.

1. Simple Baking Soda Toothpaste Recipe

Blend 1 tablespoon melted coconut oil and 1 tablespoon baking soda in a small glass jar with 1 drop peppermint and 1 drop tea tree. Let set. To use, dab a little of the mixture on your toothbrush.

2. Easy Homemade Toothpaste

Bentonite clay purportedly has healing properties that kill bacteria. The stevia is for sweetness and is optional but probably needed if you want kids to use the toothpaste.

• 4 tablespoons coconut oil
• 4 tablespoons bentonite clay
• 1/2 teaspoon real sea salt
• 2 to 3 tablespoons filtered water
• 10 to 15 drops peppermint essential oil (or cinnamon or spearmint)
• Few drops of liquid stevia (optional)

1. Mix coconut oil, clay, and salt in a small bowl.
   
2. Add one tablespoon of water and cream the ingredients together, adding more water (and a few drops of liquid stevia, if desired) until you like the consistency.
3. Mix in the essential oil.
   
4. Store in an airtight glass container.

Source: Thank Your Body

Here are links to supplies for your natural toothpaste recipe:

Bentonite clay
Calcium carbonate powder
Calcium magnesium powder
Coconut oil
Green stevia powder
Liquid stevia
Liquid trace minerals
Squeezable tube  
Xylitol powder

3. Coconut Oil and Clay Tooth Polish

• 1 tablespoon coconut oil
• 1-1/2 to 2 tablespoons bentonite clay
  
• 10 drops peppermint essential oil
• 10 drops orange essential oil
• 1 drop thyme essential oil (optional, don't use for children)
• Small glass jar
  

1. Melt the coconut oil on low heat. Remove from heat.
2. Quickly mix in the clay and essential oils, using enough clay for a thick but still pourable mixture.
3. Pour the mixture into a glass jar.
4. Place the jar in the refrigerator to let the mixture harden.
   

You can store this polish at room temperature, where the consistency of the polish will depend on the temperature in your house.

Source: Homegrown and Healthy

4. All Natural Toothpaste Recipe

Calcium carbonate powder is an abrasive. Xylitol adds sweetness, and some sources state it may help prevent tooth decay, but that hasn't been scientifically proven.

• 3 tablespoons calcium carbonate powder (not in citrate form, which will erode enamel)
  
• 2 to 3 tablespoons powdered xylitol
• 1 tablespoon baking soda
• 3 to 5 tablespoons coconut oil
• 30 or more drops peppermint essential oil, to taste
• 10 drops liquid trace minerals

1. Combine calcium carbonate powder, xylitol, and baking soda, mixing thoroughly.
2. Soften the coconut oil in a small container with the heat from your palms.
   
3. Mix 3 tablespoons of the softened coconut oil into the combined powders. To achieve desired texture, add more coconut oil a little at a time. (The mixture will become firm as it sits and the peppermint oil and trace minerals will soften the mixture.)
4. Mix in the peppermint essential oil and trace minerals.
5. Transfer to a sealable glass container.

Source: Love Live Health

5. Squeezable Homemade Natural Toothpaste Recipe

If you want make toothpaste that goes into a tube, try this recipe.

• 2 tablespoons melted coconut oil
• 1 teaspoon green stevia powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon unrefined high-mineral salt
• 1/4 teaspoon essential oil of choice
• 3 tablespoons bentonite clay
• 3 tablespoons distilled water, or more as needed

1. In a small glass bowl, mix together the coconut oil, stevia, baking soda, salt, and essential oil until well blended.
2. Mix in the bentonite clay.
3. Slowly stir in the water one tablespoon at a time until the paste is smooth.
4. Place paste in a tube.

Source: Homemade Mommy

6. Whitening DIY Toothpaste

Yep, activated charcoal is black, but it acts as a tooth whitener.

• 2 tablespoons baking soda
• 2 tablespoons melted coconut oil
• 1 capsule activated charcoal
• 4 to 5 drops peppermint or cinnamon essential oil
• Optional for sweetness: A bit of stevia or xylitol

1. Whisk the baking soda into the coconut oil until the baking soda dissolves.
2. Break open the capsule of charcoal and add the powder to the oil/baking soda mixture. Mix until the charcoal is incorporated.
3. Mix in the essential oil and sweetener.
4. Place mixture in a glass jar and let set. Store at room temperature.
   

Source: Happy Healthnut

7. Cinnamon Nutmeg All Natural Toothpaste Recipe

This recipe makes slightly spicy toothpaste.

• 2 tablespoons calcium carbonate powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
  
• 1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum (optional, it's a thickener)
  
• 1/2 teaspoon xylitol
  
• 2 tablespoons coconut oil, softened
  
• 1 to 2 teaspoons water (start with 1 and increase as needed)
  
• 3 to 4 drops cinnamon essential oil
  
• 2 to 3 drops nutmeg essential oil

1. Whisk together the calcium carbonate powder, baking soda, xanthan gum, and xylitol.
   
2. Using a fork, blend in the coconut oil until uniform.
   
3. Whisk in 1 teaspoon water and the essential oils until the mixture is as smooth as possible, adding more water, if needed.
   
4. Spoon the mixture into either a small pastry bag fitted with a screw-on cap, a small sandwich baggie with the corner cut off, or another squeezable container.

Source: Nourishing Joy

8. Remineralizing Homemade Natural Toothpaste Recipe

Some homemade toothpaste recipes purport to help remineralize teeth. Here's one:

• 2 tablespoons coconut oil, softened
  
• 2 tablespoons baking soda
  
• 2 tablespoons calcium magnesium powder
  
• 2 tablespoons xylitol or green stevia powder
  
• 2 teaspoons real sea salt
  
• 20 drops peppermint essential oil (or other essential oil of choice)
  
• 10 drops trace minerals

Blend all the ingredients together and store toothpaste in a glass jar.

Source: Keeper of the Home

9. Whitening & Remineralizing Natural Toothpaste Recipe

Makes about 4 ounces of brown toothpaste.

• 4 tablespoons coconut oil
  
• 3 tablespoons sesame oil
  
• 4 tablespoons bentonite clay
  
• 4 tablespoons calcium magnesium powder
  
• 3 tablespoons baking soda
  
• 15 drops essential oils of choice (one option is 3 drops each of peppermint, cinnamon, spearmint, clove, and myrrh)
  
• 12 drops trace minerals

1. In a double boiler, melt the coconut oil.
   
2. Pour the oil into a glass bowl.
   
3. Use a plastic or wooden spoon to stir in all the other ingredients until you have a runny but uniform mixture.
   
4. Put the mixture into the refrigerator to set, stirring every five minutes to keep everything uniform.
   
5. When the mixture starts to thicken, after about 15 minutes, remove it from the refrigerator and transfer the mixture into a squeezable silicone tube.

Note: This toothpaste is salty. If you don't like the salty taste, or if you want your kids to use the toothpaste, you can add liquid stevia or xylitol.

Source: Body Unburdened

Photo Credit: Certo Xornal from Ribeira, Galicia, España (Saúde bucodental) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons