Although the primary use of toothpaste is to clean and improve the aesthetic appearance and health of teeth, there are also 26 other things that you can use it for. Every household has one and every household uses it at least twice a day. And because of the common availability of toothpaste, you can try everything below.
Remember, use only white paste. Also, check out these 62 very useful stuff that you can do with vinegar.
- Removes stain from cloth
- Even out scratches on CD / DVD
- Cleans diamond ring
- Cleans silver
- Placate burns
- Removes crayon from painted walls.
- Remove carpet stains.
- Relieves insect bites.
- Keep girl babies’ bows in their hair.
- Clean your nails
- Clean shoes
- Put up posters
- Use it to temporarily seal holes
- Clean around the bathroom
- Clean your vehicle’s headlight lenses
- Clean model cars
- Remove scratches on your watch crystal
- Treat acne
- Prevent fog in your swimming goggles
- Clean piano keytops
- Deodorize smelly hands
- Remove scratches on glassware.
- Remove beach tar
- Deodorize baby bottles
- Cleans clothes iron
- Remove water marks from furniture
To take out all kinds of stain like ink or lipstick. Squeeze some on the spot, scrub and rinse.
If the screen freezes, take out the disc, put some toothpaste on it, scrub and clean it off.
Just squeeze a little on a used toothbrush, wet the ring, scrub gently, rinse and your diamond ring should be look sparkling new.
Toothpaste can be used to polish any kind of silver. It really does bring out the shine in silverwares.
Right after you get burnt, put it on. It helps to relieve the sting.
Rub the marks with the toothpaste and a damp rag. Wipe with water to get rid of residue.
Squeeze some onto the carpet, scrub, rinse and let it dry.
Spread a little over either of these and you’ll feel soothed and no itches. Mosquito, flea and ant bites work especially well.
If they don’t have much hair this is particularly useful. It doesn’t pull it out, it just washes out.
Teeth and nails are made of the same material. To clean your nails, squeeze some on top of a toothbrush, wet your nails and brush them thoroughly. Be amazed by the sparkle.
Scrubbing toothpaste with a wet toothbrush over the boots, working shoes and rubber part of sneakers will work. It can also be used to remove scuffs.
You can use toothpaste to put up posters without damaging the wall. However, avoid using it for collector posters. It can damage the ink over time.
Can be used as a spackle to fill nail holes. This sounds evil, but you can use it right before you move out of your rented apartment. =P
Use it to clean shower doors and rings around the bath tub. It has an abrasive so that is why it works good.
Put some toothpaste in a bowl with some water. Use a buffer pad and clean off fog caused by dirt and bugs hitting them.
Hobbyists who collect and build model cars, robots and action figures can certainly use toothpaste to make them nice and shiny.
Dab some on the watch and scrub it with tissue.
Be very careful when using this. Use it at most once a week. Just dab a small amount on a pimple before bed, wake up and it will dry up.
Just wipe it on, clean it off. Works well for me.
A dab of toothpaste, a soft cloth and some rubbing will usually clean piano keytops and turn them white again.
Wash your hands with a dab of toothpaste and it will remove smells like onions and other unpleasant odors.
Polish with a squeeze of toothpaste. Your glassware should be shining in no time.
Getting that black beach tar on your feet can put a small crimp in your vacation, but it is easy enough to remove. Just rub it with some non-gel toothpaste and rinse.
Works for sour smelling baby bottles. Scrub with toothpaste and a bottle brush and the bottles should end up smelling clean and fresh.
The mild abrasive in non-gel toothpaste is just the ticket for scrubbing the gunk off the bottom plate of your clothes iron. Apply the toothpaste to the cool iron, scrub with a cloth, then rinse clean.
To get rid of those telltale watermark rings left by sweating beverages, gently rub some non-gel toothpaste on the wood with a soft cloth.
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Great post! Very nice use of pics to make the article entertaining while informative at the same time.
thanks.
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Please don’t put toothpaste on you baby’s head, unless you want a little red mark where it’s burned her little scalp – many toothpastes are alkaline and not very good for your skin
Umm, teeth and fingernails are not made of the same material. Fingernails are the protein keratin, while what you are cleaning on your teeth is hard enamel that is primarily crystalline calcium phosphate…a mineral. Who wrote this??
yes sir
Most of these uses are because most toothpastes include baking soda. All of the cleaning ones are for that reason and just plain baking soda works as well. The toothpaste in a baby’s hair thing is intended for old school toothpastes not the new whitening ones. My parents stuck bows on my head with toothpaste for nearly a year because people thought I was a boy. I’m fine.
um… this is a joke, right?
and we put it in our mouths…every day
great uses for toothpaste . . . just need a printer friendly version so i can keep it on my fridge and pass it on to friends in notes via snail mail. getting ready to look up vinagar.
Um, I would recommend against using toothpaste on furniture. There are bleaching agents and abrasives in most toothpastes that would wreck a wood finish. Best option is to use Murphy’s Oil Soap, but if that isn’t possible, then apply a thick application of an oily substance, such as some furniture polishes that contain lemon oil, or even petroleum jelly or mayonnaise to the damaged area and allow it to remain for 12 to 24 hours.
I have worked in furniture repair and restoration for 10 years now and can attest to this.
DO NOT put toothpaste on a burn! It may relieve the sting momentarily but it can actually make it blister and damage the skin. just run the burn under luke warm water (on the cool side). I’m a nursing assistant. So i know what i’m talking about
its like those uses of thumbs up n pepsi (cleans bathrooms so well) n early morning on a trip you just gargle with pepsi and you dont even need to brush .. good god ! awesome post though .. now its going to make it harder to put tht toothpaste in my mouth again .. !
it is great. i tried it on sticking up pictures(printed from a computer though) and the carpet.. thats great. we should stop using it to brush our teeth though. haha
teinu hor koi kamm nayiya kanjooos…adhe kumm taan glue naal ho jande ya…aiwein gapaan ji marr riha ya…mudke naa karii aiho je kamm..chappedaan maar maar pann doon
Do not use toothpaste on a burn, this is an irresponsible thing to post here. Shame on you.
What a load of rubbish! Half of these will do more harm than good.
Toothpaste on a burn…? Good god man - are you serious?
Haha read the comments - toothpaste is dangerous! It attacks people named Samantha!
It also makes you grow wings and makes you disappear.
as a chemical engineering student i can say, yeah maybe it can be used for stickin up posters but the rest is nothin but bullsht. toothpaste for burns? it should be a joke!!
Oh my ,
yes you can clean your jewellry with toothpaste, but you shouldn’t.
I am a diamontologist myself, and cleaned many a ring, necklace, earrings etc etc.
The one thing that made me cringe the most was when people told me they used toothpaste to clean their jewellry.
It totally will make your diamonds sparkle! It will also totally wreck the metal it is set in. It will scratch it, and pitt it as well. It will take the rhodium right ff your “white gold” jewellery (for the most part white gold is rhodium plated) This does it so gradually you’ll not realize how much damage it has actually done, and once you’ve done it, you can’t reverse it. Sad.
This goes for silver, gold and platinum.
If you really want to keep your diamonds sparkling from home you need:
a drop of dishsoap in a bowl of hot water, with a capfull of ammonia (ammonia brightens gold. you’ll only need one container of this - it will last the rest of your life!!!)
a separate bowl of warm water
a soft toothbrush (like a baby toothbrush - soft bristles ONLY)
place jewellery one peice at a time into soapy bowl. Let sit for 30 seconds (NO LONGER)
take piece out, scrub lightly with soft toothbrush on all sides, many times there is a lot of dirt underneath the stone - and you may have to rinse it in the clean water bowl, and repeat a couple times to get it all out.
Rinse in clean bowl, and voila! sparkling! -
keep ypur ring clean by taking it off when cleaning, doing dishes especially, doing laundry too! and showering - diamonds seem to love oils.
I have a special magnetic box I keep mine in. P.S. don’t leave it near any crack, crevice or drain!!!!
I guarantee you’ll say WOW!!! everytime you use this process!
Eva said : DO NOT put toothpaste on a burn! It may relieve the sting momentarily but it can actually make it blister and damage the skin. just run the burn under luke warm water (on the cool side). I’m a nursing assistant. So i know what i’m talking about
Toothpaste will not make a bun blister. Total and complete falsehood! 2nd degree burns ALWAYS blister…..unless you use toothpaste.
Prevent fog in your swimming goggles
Alot of excellent ideas here. Thanks for this!
I cant see my self putting toothpaste in my baby’s hair. You know how hard that will be to get out when it dries.
Darlene needs a spell-checker.
Some of these ideas make me cringe. Baby heads are tender. Use corn syrup if you want to stick a bow onto a baby’s head, but then, really, is that necessary?
Teeth and fingernails are made from the same substance???!!! Yikes! You are sooooooooo wrong! Putting toothpaste onto fingernails will cause the edges to dry and become irritated, leading to an increase in hang-nails and stingy feelings!
I cannot believe you recommend using an abrasive on CDs! Scratch the hell out of ‘em is what you’re recommending! Yowsa!
This is one of those, “I read it on the Internet, so it must be true,” sites that my redneck relatives in Oklahoma talk about.
It can be bad to use as spackle.. especially for large holes in the wall,
when you try to paint over it, some paints don’t stick and it leaves a
weird, oily gooey patch you can’t get painted right.
I tried it on a CD once and it just messed the whole thing up
I read the comments… you guys take things you read on the internet much to much to heart! Just read it. if it makes sense use it.. if it does not don’t… why do you have to all wine about it!