Recipe #1:

This modified recipe from Jessie Hawkins has freshening and activating peppermint, calming and cleansing lemon and numbing clove oils:

• 3 Tablespoons baking soda
• 1 Tablespoon fine sea salt (grind this to powder in a mortar and pestle)
• 1 Tablespoon xylitol (I omit)
• 2 Tablespoons coconut oil
• 1 drop peppermint essential oil
• 2 drops lemon essential oil
• 2 drops clove essential oil

Put all the ingredients in a glass bowl and mash them together with the back of a serving spoon, almost like a mortar and pestle. Since my mortar and pestle is clay, and porous, I don’t want to put the essential oils right in there. (Even though it is really easy to clean and even the scent of garlic doesn’t stick – I just don’t want to chance it). I make this without the xylitol since with xylitol it was too sweet. It is still nice without the sweetener, my kids use it readily.

Recipe #2:

Here’s one of Tommy Priester’s tooth powder recipes:

• 1 teaspoon myrrh powder
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ cup white cosmetic-grade clay (I used a white bentonite)
• essential oils (about 5 drops) of anise, clove, peppermint, spearmint, cinnamon (mix with others, can get hot!)

Put the myrrh powder in the mortar and pestle first, and grind it to an even finer powder. Then add the sea salt and grind some more. Put the baking soda in and grind again.

Fold with the clay in a glass bowl, and drop in the oils carefully. Fluff and let sit in open air for a day. Containerize – stainless steel tiffin containers work really well. Makes a heaping 4 ounces.

It is pretty bitter because of the myrrh, even with essential oils.

Recipe #3

I combined these two recipes because Jessie’s was too sweet and Tommy’s was too bitter or us – here is the hybrid.

• 1 teaspoon myrrh powder
• 1 teaspoon xylitol
• 1 Tablespoon fine sea salt
• 1 Tablespoons baking soda
• 2 Tablespoons cosmetic-grade white clay (bentonite is fine)
• 2 Tablespoons coconut oil
• 2 drops spearmint essential oil
• 2 drops lemon essential oil
• 2 drops clove essential oil

Put the myrrh powder in the mortar and pestle first, and grind it to an even finer powder. Add the xylitol and grind it finer too. Then add the sea salt and grind some more. Put the baking soda in and grind again. Fold carefully and thoroughly with the clay in a glass bowl. Mash in the coconut oil until it is finer than when you make scones at the butter and flour stage. Finally, drop in the oils carefully. Alternatively, you can mix the essential oils with the coconut oil before blending.