http://www.hairlossbuddy.com/20/sodium-lauryl-sulfate/

Time to ditch the Colgate too! Although, fluoride is a double edged sword – some people have fears over it, but it helps rebuild your teeth from plaque attack. Hmmmmn.

I’ve always been prone to canker sores (not cold sores), which are incredibly painful. I’d get one or two every month. A few years ago I discovered that Rembrandt made toothpaste for canker sore sufferers. I tried it and immediately stopped getting canker sores altogether and my overall quality of life was so much better. But, it was about $8 a tube, (a tube being maybe a month’s worth of toothpaste) and I was skeptical about using a whitening toothpaste anyway. The only thing I could tell was different about this toothpaste from other toothpastes was the lack of sodium lauryl sulfate which I had already heard from you was bad, so I set out to find a cheaper toothpaste without SLS.

This was about when I moved to London and I knew the EU would do me right on the SLS matter. And I was pleased to find Green People toothpaste at the Planet Organic on Torrington Place in London. My favorite flavor is the organic peppermint. People have told me that it doesn’t foam enough and it tastes like mud. But now when I use colgate or something like that I can’t stand the amount of foam or the overly minty flavor. Who says you need foam to get your teeth clean anyway? Shouldn’t you be getting your brush everywhere in your mouth and so not be relying on foam for anything?

Last time I was in London I bought a case of the Green People organic peppermint toothpaste because I couldn’t stand the idea of not having it in my life. It’s been kind of strange not ever running out of toothpaste. I’ve had it about six months and I think the case will last two years. I was going to recommend that everybody buy some online, but I just saw on their website that for some reason Green People can’t ship to the US for liability insurance restrictions. That’s a bummer because the packaging is pretty great in that european cool toothbrush kind of way.
(http://www.greenpeople-organic-health.co.uk/Product_Details.asp?Pc=D004&cc=D)
Even though it’s British, maybe you can find it in Williamsburg? You can always find Kinder Suprises there which are also contraband in the U.S.

Anyway, I am way down on Tom’s too. They seem very corporate in their defense of the use of SLS they have on their website and the Tom’s people have long seemed to me to be kind of healthy product posers. In fact, I have a huge tube of Tom’s that someone gave me in my closet that I’ll never use. Anyone who wants it can have it. I’ll even mail it to you. But I probably can’t mail it in the US because of insurance liability restrictions.