Article: Homemade toothpaste can be adapted to your specific needs and tastes, but ensure you are including the following types of ingredients:  A cleaning substance. An abrasive to loosen plaque. An emulsifier to help the various ingredients mix well. A sweetening agent to make the toothpaste palatable. A flavoring agent (optional, but helpful both for taste and freshening your breath). Start with a proven method and experiment from there to determine your tastes and preferences.  One common recipe includes the following ingredients:  1/2 teaspoon glycerin (a sweetener) 1/8 teaspoon mild neutral soap powder (a cleanser) 1 tablespoon calcium carbonate, which is often sold as chalk of Paris White (an abrasive) 1/2 teaspoon gum arabic, commonly sold at health food stores (an emulsifier) A couple drops of peppermint oil (a flavoring agent) 1/8 cup water Combine all ingredients, then heat and stir for five minutes over medium heat, or until your mixture has achieved a paste-like appearance.  You can make a year's supply of homemade toothpaste for one-tenth the price of purchasing a market brand.  Experiment with different flavorings.  Making your own toothpaste can be an especially useful solution if you harbor a strong dislike of the mint flavoring used in most commercial toothpastes. As your homemade toothpaste doesn't have all the ingredients found in commercial toothpaste (for better and for worse) consider alternating between your homemade toothpaste and a commercial toothpaste every two weeks. When using a homemade toothpaste, consider following with a mouthwash.
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Understand the components of homemade toothpaste. Try a basic recipe. Cook your ingredients to form a paste.

Get a medium-sized bowl and position a candle at the bottom of it. A taper candle works best, but any candle can work. Then, pour water into the bowl until the candle is almost covered. Leave about 1 in (2.5 cm) of candle sticking out of the water for the spell. It's best to use a black candle, if you have one. You can find a black taper candle at a department store, magickal supplies store, or online. Pour salt into your hand, then slowly sprinkle it in a circle around the candle. Add as much salt as you like to provide extra purification to your spell. You can use table salt for this, but it’s best to use sea salt or Epsom salt if you have it. They haven’t been processed like table salt, so their properties are more intact. a white light flowing into the water. Stare at the bowl of water and picture a beam of white light flowing into the bowl. Imagine that this light is a positive, cleansing light. Take several slow, deep breaths as you visualize the light. In Pagan traditions, the purpose of this practice is to imbue the water with positive energy to help your spell work. Use a match or lighter to light the candle. As it burns, recite a spell or say a prayer to break your curse. Make sure you finish your spell before the candle goes out.  You might say, “Earth, fire, water, and air, be the answer to my prayer, banish this curse and leave me pure, tonight I claim a blessed cure.” You could pray, “Dear God/Goddess, Please cleanse me of this negative energy and lift the curse. I know that you will make me free. Amen.” Don’t blow out your candle because it’s best to let it go out on its own. Let the candle continue burning until the wick reaches the water. At that point, the water will extinguish the fire. Your spell is almost complete! In Pagan traditions, it's believed that letting a candle go out on its own strengthens the spell and keeps the magic in place. Remove the candle from the water and bend it at the center. Keep bending until it breaks in half. Then, take the bowl and the candle outside. Dig a shallow hole and bury your candle. Burying the candle completes the spell to break the curse. Slowly pour the water so that you’re able to complete an entire circle. If you still have water, make another pass. You do this to seal the spell. The salt may kill grass around the buried candle.
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Put a candle in a bowl and add water up to 1 in (2.5 cm) from the tip. Sprinkle a handful of salt into the water around the candle. Visualize Light the candle, then say your spell or prayer. Let the candle burn down to the water and go out. Break the candle in half and bury it outside. Pour the water in a circle around the buried candle.