This Toothbrush Makes All Others Seem Like Complete Garbage.
It is impossible for our body to break down microplastics once they enter our body. Our enzymes does not affect it, bacteria can't process it, and our detoxification mechanisms are all powerless.
The only thing we can do is to stop ingesting microplastics to begin with. Around half of the microplastics that end up in the body is from the air we breathe (a topic for another day) and we literally eat the other half.
Microplastics are pretty much everywhere, found on the bottom of the ocean and on the mountain peaks of Himalaya, you will never be able to avoid it entirely, but it takes very little money and time to avoid some of the most important sources of microplastics.
Not grinding plastic bristles against the hardest and sharpest part of your body, inside your mouth, every single day, seems like an easy place to start.
Better Health is Just a Few Clicks Away!
Thankfully, the solution to all these problems can be found in history books. Before plastic materials, boar bristles stuck directly into a piece of wood was the most common way of cleaning teeth. For less than a century, we have been poisoning ourselves with synthetic plastic brushes, and before then we used natural bristle brushes from boar and horse-hair. The proven old methods were used for thousands of years, the oldest boar bristle brush found by archeologists is from the Tang dynasty in China, approximately 1500 years old. It is safe to assume it was done for a long, long time before then as well, as natural materials decompose quickly, making it hard for archeologists to find anything like that preserved for such a long time.
What Makes This Toothbrush So Great?
You will ingest zero microplastics from it, which is more than you can say about any other toothbrush. Any particles from wood or bristles is easily broken down by your body, unlike plastics which will remain forever.
The bristles are natural boar bristle, something that has been traditionally used since at least the Tang dynasty in China, 1500 or so years ago. They stuck the boar bristles directly into bamboo, just like we do.
The wood is a solid piece of bamboo, unlike most wooden toothbrushes which are glued together Frankenstein-style from low quality wood scraps, making the wood itself a source of toxicity.
