RE: Gelatin in toothpaste

[Guest guest]

Now I have to go home and look at my toothpaste!! I'm hoping Tom's of

Maine would not use that type of ingredient (gelatin)

Sam

 

 

Other common items with gelatin are toothpaste, ice cream, most

vitamins,

jellies and jams

 

Meg

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

you dont have to go home, I have some Tom's toothpaste right here...

 

calcium carbonate, water, glycerin, xylitol, sodium lauryl sulfate,

spearmint leaf oil, eppermint oils, carrageenan

 

Also, I think Tom's has the ingredients of everything they makeon their

website, but since they were bought out they may have changed. They have a

big write up on their website about why they use SLS, so I suppose they are

one of the more honest companies out there.

 

Carrageenan is one of those plant based things they can use instead of

gelatin, agar is another.

 

Meg

 

On 6/22/06, Samantha Lea <saml wrote:

>

> Now I have to go home and look at my toothpaste!! I'm hoping Tom's of

> Maine would not use that type of ingredient (gelatin)

> Sam

>

>

> Other common items with gelatin are toothpaste, ice cream, most

> vitamins,

> jellies and jams

>

> Meg

>

>

[Guest guest]

you dont have to go home, I have some Tom's toothpaste right here...

 

 

 

 

Hey heads up here on Tom's Of Maines toothpaste, it is sometimes carried at

Big Lots as well as the deodorant, I have a whole bunch here that I stocked up

on when Big lots had them.

 

 

Susie or Susan

 

 

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has

come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the

hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. ~Woodrow Wilson

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Isn't glycerin an animal based ingredient? Or it can be plant or animal?

Thanks for looking up the Toms.

Sam

 

 

 

On Behalf Of Meg

Thursday, June 22, 2006 12:01 PM

 

Re: Gelatin in toothpaste

 

calcium carbonate, water, glycerin, xylitol, sodium lauryl sulfate,

spearmint leaf oil, eppermint oils, carrageenan

 

Also, I think Tom's has the ingredients of everything they makeon their

website, but since they were bought out they may have changed. They have

a

big write up on their website about why they use SLS, so I suppose they

are

one of the more honest companies out there.

 

Carrageenan is one of those plant based things they can use instead of

gelatin, agar is another.

 

Meg

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

yes and no. Glycerin naturally occurs in both animal fats and plant fats.

 

What you see as glycerin today is usually a sugar alcohol and is often used

to sweeten diabetic sweets. It's also known as glycerol and glycerine. There

is food grade and cosmetic grade, both made form plants.

 

In the 19th and early 20th century glycerin was derived solely from animal

fats. You can still get this type of glycerin mostly for soap and candle

making, but it's not as easy to find as the plant based.

 

Meg

 

On 6/22/06, Samantha Lea <saml wrote:

>

> Isn't glycerin an animal based ingredient? Or it can be plant or animal?

> Thanks for looking up the Toms.

> Sam

>

ad about the book!

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

So if you use a product that says glycerin in the ingredients how do you

find out? Probably call the company? The soap I use says it is a plant

based glycerin but my lotion does not. Although I think St. Ives would

use plant based. But then again I get in a lot of trouble assuming

things. Thanks for all the info - now I just have to remember it.

Sam

 

 

yes and no. Glycerin naturally occurs in both animal fats and plant

fats.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

call the manufacturer and hope they will tell you and not consider it

proprietary??

 

Sorry, I don't know how else to tell.

 

Meg

 

On 6/22/06, Samantha Lea <saml wrote:

>

> So if you use a product that says glycerin in the ingredients how do you

> find out? Probably call the company? The soap I use says it is a plant

> based glycerin but my lotion does not. Although I think St. Ives would

> use plant based. But then again I get in a lot of trouble assuming

> things. Thanks for all the info - now I just have to remember it.

> Sam

>

>

>

> yes and no. Glycerin naturally occurs in both animal fats and plant

> fats.

>

>