Toothpaste

I've been buying natural toothpaste for a while now.  The problem is, a $5 tube of toothpaste lasts about two weeks in my house because my husband is a big waster of products (he loads up his toothbrush like they do in the toothpaste commercials, while I put just a smidgen on mine).  So, I've started making my own.  I didn't like the recipes I found because they tasted so salty they made me gag, so I made up my own.  Here is the basic, supermarket-ingredient version.  Start with one tablespoon baking soda.  Add a tooth-friendly sweetener.  I used Truvia because I had bought some, hated the taste of it, and it's sitting in my pantry.  Stevia or any sugar alcohol would work.  If your sweetener is large crystals you will want to grind it to a powder.  I used 6 packets of Truvia, but sweeten to your own taste.  Add a few drops of mint or cinnamon extract or essential oil.  Then add hydrogen peroxide, stirring, until it's moist enough to form a paste.  There's all kinds of things you can add to this, such as kaolin clay, tea tree oil, neem powder, saponins, etc., and I'll be experimenting more in the future.  Store your paste with a clean popsicle stick which you will use to stir it up and put it on your toothbrush.  It will be a little gritty at first but that gradually decreases as the crystals dissolve over time.