Green Pastures Beauty Balm

Balm for hands, feet, skin and lips, preservative Free.

Ingredients: Shea Butter, X-FACTOR Gold High Vitamin Butter Oil, Blue Breeze Organic Coconut Oil, Blue Ice Fermented Cod Liver Oil, Cranberry Oil, Organic Orange Oil, Lavender Oil.

Remineralising teeth

We often get enquiries about how to remineralise teeth.

First, go to the website of Ramiel Nagel, author of “Cure Tooth Decay”, which will give you enough information to get started. But if you need serious help, it would be well worth getting his book.

To give a very brief summary, tooth decay isn't caused by sugar coating our teeth, but rather by imbalances in our body chemistry.

So to heal tooth decay, some of the basic requirements are:

• A nutrient dense, whole foods, Weston A Price type diet, including:
  • Bone broths & marrow
  • Cod liver oil
  • Butter oil, or lots of good butter
  • Good quality animal foods, including some raw
  • Fermented foods
• Some people need further specific help to normalise their hormones and body chemistry
• A fluoride free, glycerine free tooth cleaner

The last one is important because glycerine coats your teeth, so that they can't remineralise. Unfortunately, virtually all toothpastes contain glycerine. Other alternatives such as tooth powder are hard to find in NZ. Baking soda is another option.

But for your ease and convenience, we have managed to find some toothpastes that don't contain glycerine (see below).

Other things that may help include oil pulling, and supplementing with a specially designed oral probiotic.

Miessence Organics toothpaste

Miessence toothpastes naturally clean your teeth with salt, baking soda and organic essential oils. They are excellent for people with sensitive teeth and have absolutely NO fluoride, aluminum, glycerine, synthetic sweeteners, silicates (sand), fluoride, dyes, stabilizers, detergents or other materials that can damage teeth.

An added bonus, for those who don't like mint, is that it is available in lemon flavour.

Another bonus is that it's a bigger tube than most other toothpastes (which are 110gm).

Ingredients:

• Organic Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Juice
• Aqua (Purified, Energized Water)
• Sodium Bicarbonate
• Xanthan Gum
• Sea Salt
• Stevia Rebaudiana Extract

The Lemon also contains:

• Organic Citrus Limonum (Lemon) Essential Oil
• Organic Backhousia Citriadora (Lemon Myrtle) Essential Oil

The Mint also contains:

• Organic Mentha Spicata (Spearmint) Essential Oil
• Organic Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Essential Oil
• Organic Cinnamomum Zeylanicum (Cinnamon) Leaf Essential Oil
• Organic Syzygium Aromatica (Clove) Bud Essential Oil

Vicco Ayurvedic toothpaste

Vicco standard toothpaste has glycerine in it, but the unsweetened version doesn't.

Vicco Pure Herbal Toothpaste is the original Ayurvedic toothpaste. Ayurvedic practice, centuries old, actively involves those elements in nature most beneficial to the individual.

Vicco Toothpaste is made from 20+ extracts from herbs, barks, roots and flowers, chosen for their beneficial effect on the teeth or the gums. There are no chemicals, artificial ingredients or refined sweeteners, no harsh abrasives, fluoride or glycerine. The sodium laurel sulphate is derived from Indian coconut oil.

Vicco Toothpaste has a refreshing herbal taste and comes to you in a highly concentrated form. You use only a little bit, giving you more brushes per tube than many other toothpastes.

Ingredients:

• Purified Chalk
• Water
• Sorbitol
• Sodium Lauryl Sulphate
• Gum Tragacanth
• Extracts of Indian Licorice Root, Indian Almond, Common Jujube, Currant, Sarsaparilla, Cinnamon, Sappan Wood, Persian Walnut, Rose Apple, Medlar, Barleria Prinoitis, Prinkly Ash, Asian Holly Oak, Bedda Nut, Bengal Madder, Bishop’s Weed, Catechu, Mayweed and Geranium
• Menthol
• Thymol
• Oils of Clove, Eucalyptus and Peppermint.