Make Your Own Squeeze Tube for Homemade Toothpaste

Make Your Own Squeeze Tube for Homemade Toothpaste

Make your own squeeze tube for homemade toothpaste.

I like the idea of homemade toothpaste. What I don’t like is keeping it in a jar and dipping my toothbrush into the jar. Even if I’m the only one using that toothpaste, it just doesn’t seem sanitary to me. Yes, you could buy a refillable squeeze tube like this one, but it’s easy to make your own. Here’s what you need to do to make your own squeeze tube:

Beg, borrow or steal an empty store-bought tube of toothpaste. Make sure it’s the kind with a two piece flip-top cap. The only other item that you’ll need is a small zip-lock bag. Use a heavy duty freezer bag, not just a sandwich bag. Trust me, a sandwich bag will not hold up. Don’t ask how I know that.

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Cut the cap from the toothpaste container. Just use regular scissors; the tubes cut easily. Give the cap a good cleaning. Now make a small hole in the zip lock bag by cutting a small triangle off of one of the corners. Don’t cut too much; you can always make the hole larger, but you can’t make it smaller. But you knew that.

Now, poke the male part of the cap into the hole, and then screw the female part onto it. Oh, boy, this is not going well. I need to find some new terminology. Let’s just move on.

Fill the bag with your favorite homemade toothpaste, squeeze out any air and seal the bag. Your homemade squeeze tube is ready to use!

And if you’re looking for a recipe for toothpaste, here are a few you might like to try:

Cinnamon Nutmeg Toothpaste from Nourishing Joy

DIY Whitening Peppermint Toothpaste from Happy Healthnut

DIY Clay Toothpaste Recipe from Raising Vintage Kids in a Modern World

Homemade Remineralizing Toothpaste from Wellness Mama

Homemade Toothpaste Recipe: Remineralizing from Food Renegade

Make Your Own Toothpaste from Homesteading Hippy

Heather Dessinger’s book DIY Organic Beauty Recipes includes several toothpaste recipes and lots of other great recipes for making your own beauty products. Check it out here.

Do you make your own toothpaste? What recipe do you use?

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