Toothpaste-never mind the obvious...how creative have you been with toothpaste?

In a pinch I've used it to polish sterling silver - it has a mild abrasive and the silver smells minty fresh when you're done!

I've used it on nail holes, on wasp stings, to dry out pimples. I think that's about it.

Works good filling nail holes. But, don't use the green gel type if you have white walls.

The only non-tooth-related application I've ever used it for is on pimples.

I've only used toothpaste to brush my teeth.

To try and sooth a graze where my shoes had been rubbing. It just went sticky. Still, at least my feet smelled nice.

just the obvious.

I've used it to dry up a pimple and to clean a ring.

I think that I've only used toothpaste as toothpaste.

Oh, I tried it for that. But I had quite a lot of spots and ended up using quite a lot. Then after about 30 seconds my skin (which is pretty sensitive) started to really burn. I deal fairly well with pain but this was awful - and my eyes were watering like mad from the fumes. It took ages for the tingling to wear off after I'd washed it off. I swore to never do it again!

I once heard that putting toothpaste on a pimple will clear it up overnight. I did it when I was a teenager once. Didn't work.

Hidden nail holes and 'glue' broken stuff.

I usually found that the tingling went away after a couple of minutes; I didn't used to have such sensitive skin, either. And overall it was worth the tingling, because it worked pretty well. I guess fluoride has multiple uses!

I'm more of a benzoyl peroxide girl nowadays

I'm allergic to benzoyl peroxide; it made my face all dry and itchy and red (and still pimply). I had to use treatments with salicylic acid, which I don't think works as well. I'm more of a 32-year-old "girl" on birth control these days, so I don't have too much of a problem with pimples. A few years ago I also saw a dermatologist, who gave me a prescription medication that worked really well, too.

Hmm, try getting to see a dermatologist on the NHS - you might have a chance if you were head to toe severe eczema, otherwise it's over the counter creams! I'm getting to the age where I don't think my skin is ever going to clear up properly - and I'm worried that birth control pills would cause perpetual PMS. I should just learn to love my spots

I have a feeling that I'd still get pimples if I weren't on birth control; my father still gets them, after all! Although I don't think I'd get as many as I used to; when I was a teenager, I swore that if I ever only had only one or two pimples, I wouldn't complain about them, but when I get one I still get annoyed! I've also discovered that I have dry skin; as a teen I didn't realize this, so I wasn't taking care of it properly.

From what you've said about the PMS and cramps and various symptoms that you get, I can't imagine birth control making it any worse! Different pills will work differently for you, though. The first pill I tried (Ortho Tri-Cyclen, I believe) was too high a dosage, though, and it did make me very moody. Then I went on a really low-dosage one (Loestrin 120/Fe) which was great--no moodiness, no PMS, pretty much no period either. But after a while I thought that seemed a little unnatural, so I went off it. Right now I'm on the patch (Ortho-Evra), and it's great. Because it's a patch, it's a steady release, so you don't get the ups-and-downs of a pill dosage that tapers off each day. I have a normal period, a little cramping at times but nothing too bad, clear skin, and no PMS. So I'm sure you could find something that would be a huge improvement and wouldn't involve perpetual PMS!

I think I've only ever used it to clean my teeth. I tend to use the green gel kind.

Nothing.
'Cept when I was younger I'd mix it with soap and stuff...it was cool..

I've heard toothpaste cleans watermarks out of wood rather well but I've never tried it.

> I've used it to dry up a pimple and to clean a ring.

Does it work on pimples?? If it does I will tell my daughter about it.

Holes in the walls of course...my SO uses it for deoderant. It's the one that has essential oils in it.

Really? Deoderant?

in jail inmates use toothpaste as a glue to paste pictures & other things on the wall.

It has oils in it. I tried it, but it's too strong for me. She can pack a very small toiletry bag.

I used to do that!
And then it's all this cool colour... and it separates itself (I always used a see through jug, the one my mum uses for the ironing water), and then you put conditioner in, put the conditioner just turns flaky and floats about... good times.

I guess I'm dumb on this subject. I don't know what oils have to do with deodorant.

I must be stupid, as I have never done anything with it except to brush my teeth with it.

The regular white peppermint tooth paste works ok. I think it’s the peppermint and/or the baking soda that actually dries the pimples out though. Don’t use the kind with peroxide in it! I don’t know if it’s true but I’ve heard that peroxide will cause scaring. I think milk of magnesia works better than tooth past. I also heard that goats milk soap is really good for acne but it is expensive if you can even find it.

yes!!! Wow, I thought my brother and I were the only one's that did that..haha

Ah, to be seven years old again!

I have used it to clean jewelery.

When we were young we would go to my friends house and do stuff like that all the time. They owned a corner store so always had lots of everything. What I remember most is mixing baby powder, noxema cream and water. The smell! Like nothing else, and that's a good thing.

The oils are antibacterial, anti microbials. Kills germs.

the good days..haha

I mixed corn starch and water and food dye...then put it on my face and hands to look like I had a bloody nose...It was nasty

I've used it to fill nail holes many times.

What a bad little girl to give your mamma a heart attack like that!

No, she wasn't home.
It tasted incredibly disgusting though...ick

When I had acne as a teen, it was one of the infinitesimal amount of things that I tried to combat it - like evrything else, it didn't work.

I haven't. Sorry. I'll put that on my list and get back to you. Okay?

I'd never been creative with it!

Not particularly.

Glue a broken statue together. I broke a when I was young and living at my grandma's house. I was told I wasn't allowed to use super glue, so I tried toothpaste.

On spots, to remove stained on hair dye from the bath, to get rid of other staines on white clothes..

I used to do that too, mising up everything in the bathroom I could find.. ahh the fun of it all

yep, until you got caught.
My mom once woke me up at 1130 because I put some of her face stuff in the top of the toilet

It works?

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Removed the hairdye, wasn't so good for the other 2

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I came up witha recipe 8 years ago for a sweet citrus toothpaste, kinda like Starburst, which I called in to Colgate. Seven years later they created Herbal White, with Lemon, Eucalyptus, Anise, and Melissa. - even better. Alas, they seem to have discontinued it after a year, so I have to stock up on it from 99¢ stores.

~ Oh wait, I do have a tale. As a young exploratory teen I tried using it as a masturbation lubricant. Boy did I regret that after 20 seconds or so. I was on minty fire.

maybe you should have used cinnamon flavored Aim?

Sounds worse. I make custom essential oils (perfumes, spells, and such) and cinnamon is one of those that burns any skin unless you use a synthetic version.

I use cinnamon, mints, pennyroyal, clove, citrus rind, lemongrass, and citronella in flea shampos and roach preventive wall detergent.

Yeah, come to think of it, cinnamon could be uncomfortable. I wonder how that warming oil or gel works that they advertise.

Not a clue. I'll stick with organic massage oils I ever have oil purposes, or K-Y.

Clean my Diamond ring.