As I grew up and into my adult life I always suffered from a breakdown of the skin on the inside of my mouth. It seemed like every two or three weeks just as the new skin inside my mouth seemed like it had healed it would suddenly break down again and begin to peel away. It was concerning but I didn’t have a clue why it was happening?

It wasn’t until I was well into my adult years that I read a small article about how some people are allergic to Sodium Lauryl Sulfate. And the fact that, it can kill skin cells inside your mouth, that it finally started to ring a bell about what was happening to me.

After learning this I decided to go online and do a bit of investigating. Sodium Lauryl Sulfate comes from coconut oil. In its purified form it’s used as a cleaner in many cleaning products that we all use everyday. And in it’s extreme purified form it’s used as an engine cleaner to cut through built up oil and grease in cars and trucks. That convinced me right there to stop using toothpaste with Sodium Lauryl Sulfate as an ingredient. And as soon as I did the breakdown of skin cells in my mouth stopped. But this also made me wonder, after all the years I had been using toothpaste with it in it, what other health risks could be involved with it?

We all swallow small amounts of toothpaste every time we brush. Which makes me wonder if people who develop throat cancer or stomach cancer or even ulcers may also be being poisoned by this additive to toothpaste? I find this very concerning!

Bill Walker