Brushing your teeth is one of those routines that you likely don’t think twice about. You grow accustomed to your toothbrush and the toothpaste brand that maybe you’ve been using for years. But as more research emerges about common health and beauty harboring dangerous ingredients, toothpaste may be another personal care product to reevaluate—at least according to Lead Safe Mama, which conducts routine, third-party laboratory testing of consumer goods for toxins including heavy metals lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic.
The organization has just updated a list of 53 toothpastes it had tested, 90% of which tested positive for lead, 65% for arsenic, just under half for mercury, and around 30% for cadmium—while many brands contained several toxins.
