# Colgate Herbal toothpaste **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 26, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colgate-herbal-toothpaste/209620 "2003-10-26T05:09:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colgate-herbal-toothpaste/209620/21 "2003-10-26T23:44:22Z")
**Herbal** Colgate? If the commericial’s promising a result anything like the herbal shampoo one, I’ll just put that on my grocery list right now. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colgate-herbal-toothpaste/209620/22 "2003-10-27T00:04:48Z")
And it tastes great on a cracker! ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colgate-herbal-toothpaste/209620/23 "2003-10-27T00:29:27Z")
Five - no six, including **PhalPhoto** (Welcome). Oddly, I find Tom’s Cinnamint to be acceptable (even preferable). It has mint, but not at an overpowering level. ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colgate-herbal-toothpaste/209620/24 "2003-10-27T02:14:28Z")
I guess I’m the only one who likes Tom’s fennel flavor, then. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colgate-herbal-toothpaste/209620/25 "2003-10-27T03:25:26Z")
Hell no, **yBeayf** – I like to change up w/ the Tom’s Fennel and the slightly less fru-fru Baking Soda. (The fennel flavour is much more pleasant, but the Baking Soda “feels” like it works better.) (For some reason the lavender packaging of the fennel flavour appeals to me, too, although I feel all dirtied for admitting that such superficialities effect my purchasing habits.) ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colgate-herbal-toothpaste/209620/26 "2003-10-27T03:50:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny Bravo \* > \*\*And it tastes great on a cracker! \*\* You don’t have to brush your teeth more than once a week, but you just might want to! I used to use Colgate Herbal, and I found nothing wrong with it. Now I use Aquafresh Extreme Clean, and I hate it. I was lured in by the “foaming” action (I’ve observed that it foams no more or less than any other toothpaste), but I retch every time I use it. Mint is good, and orange is good, but they ain’t good together. I will never buy this again for the same reason I don’t buy fruit-flavored cough drops with menthol. ---
**Author:** ![Daikona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@Daikona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daikona)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colgate-herbal-toothpaste/209620/27 "2003-10-27T04:09:54Z")
The Tom’s fennel isn’t too bad. I really like the strawberry banana kiddy one! I used to get it a lot. I haven’t seen it lately though, maybe the store here doesn’t carry it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colgate-herbal-toothpaste/209620/28 "2003-10-27T04:16:15Z")
My personal favorite is baking soda / peroxide. When we were kids, we used backing soda and Shaklee whatever it was. Now, for all you weirdos who actually prefer this herbal gum killer, let me read to you the label. And yeah, I know I was a sucker for buying it. I mean, I am permanently out well over $2.59. From the label: **Chamomile** - That can’t be it’s correct spelling! Kitten murderers… **Sage** - Jimmy Dean Sausages?! Pig sex wanters! **Myrrh** - Didn’t they try to poison Jesus with this? Amen! Come Lord Jesus! **Eucalyptus** - so now I’m a koala? Bug wipers! They’ve already got us completely snookered with this **Flouride** stuff which softens our will, making us succesptable to suggestions… (See my POE = Purity Of Essence rant to come some future day) My shame is complete and deserved for being so gullible, but you! Colgate-Palmolive Company!!! AAAaaahhh!!! Oooh, look! A penny! ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colgate-herbal-toothpaste/209620/29 "2003-10-27T14:44:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Sage - Jimmy Dean Sausages?! Pig sex wanters! You lost me here. But I use Jimmy Dean Sage sausage when I make sausage pinwheels. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colgate-herbal-toothpaste/209620/30 "2003-10-27T19:27:17Z")
> **[Spice For Your Smile](https://www.forbes.com/2003/10/27/cx_al_1027toothpaste.html)** > > Procter & Gamble puts the squeeze on Colgate with spiced-up varieties of Crest. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colgate-herbal-toothpaste/209620/31 "2003-10-27T22:41:29Z")
I found out last week my dentist now offers toothpaste flavors that include: mint, cinnamon, bubble gum, cotton candy, cherry, citrus, and orange creamsicle. I was overwhelmed and just went with mint, but now I am kicking myself for not getting creamsicle, just for the experience. One thing I love about the dentist toothpaste is the grittiness of it. Why can’t I buy toothpaste like that? I enjoy crunching on it the rest of the day. I can’t imagine that some of those flavors would leave your mouth feeling very fresh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colgate-herbal-toothpaste/209620.md?page=1)