Does OraWellness Smile replace Shine and/or the HealThy Mouth Blend?

Great question! The short answer is, it’s really up to you.

To give you some backstory, we created the line of OraWellness Smile toothpastes for a handful of reasons.

First, to accommodate the requests of many of our community members who have asked us to make a paste product that’s easier to use than our HealThy Mouth Blend and Shine.

Second, while ‘crunchy’ folks like us are willing to use tooth oil and/or tooth powder, there are lots of people out there who have never had any experience using oils or powder for brushing their teeth. By providing a paste option, we have a product line that’s more familiar and therefore more accessible for the broader community, which helps us spread more healthy smiles out into the world. 🙂

Third, we’ve been working on this project for a full decade, and in the past few years, we’ve felt extra motivated to provide an exceptional hydroxyapatite toothpaste for our community. Why? We’ve seen many remineralizing products hit the market with formulations that only contain a sprinkling of functional ingredients. We spotted a big opportunity for improvement in the market, because so many hydroxyapatite toothpaste options don’t contain enough remineralizing ingredients—like hydroxyapatite—to effectively support a healthier smile.

Back to the question at hand: thanks to the convenience of OraWellness Smile’s paste format, some people may choose to use it as a replacement for Shine and/or the HealThy Mouth Blend. For general oral health and tooth remineralization support, OraWellness Smile may very well be sufficient.

(It’s good to note that the Paleo versions of OraWellness Smile contain the same microcrystalline hydroxyapatite protein/mineral complex that’s in our Shine Remineralizing Tooth Whitening powder, and we do believe that OraWellness Smile will provide similar supportive benefits as Shine. But, we don’t have a decade of customer feedback (yet) proving that Smile helps to remineralize decay, like we do with Shine.)

However, other folks might choose to use varying combinations of our products based on what’s going on in their mouth.

If you’re experiencing issues that suggest gum disease might be present, like bleeding gums or persistent bad breath, then it may be wise for you to continue using the HealThy Mouth Blend either separately or in combination with Smile for two main reasons:

1. Since the Blend is an oil, it works its way into gum pockets more easily than a paste.
2. The Orange Vanilla flavors of Smile don’t contain any of the HealThy Mouth Blend’s essential oils, so it doesn’t provide those benefits. And, while the Cinnamony Mint flavors of OraWellness Smile do contain the Blend’s warming and cooling oils (cinnamon, clove, peppermint, spearmint), Smile does not contain the Blend’s essential oils of myrrh and manuka. These components of the HealThy Mouth Blend’s formula serve important functions. Myrrh has been used since before Biblical times to help with a wide array of health issues because it speeds the healing process by increasing blood flow to compromised tissue. Manuka makes it more difficult for oral ‘thug bugs’, and the plaque that they create, to cling to teeth and gum tissue. It also happens to be the most effective plant essence for managing the toughest of the ‘thug bugs’ that are associated with gum disease.

If you’re looking to get the best tooth whitening benefits, we believe that using dry Shine either by itself or in combination with OraWellness Smile will most likely provide even more support to your gentle whitening efforts.

So to sum it up, feel free to do whatever works for you. You can use any of our products alone, or choose to use a combination of them. If you choose to use a combination of them, you can do that however you’d like—by using one after another, by using one in the morning and the other at night, or by using any or all of them together at the same time.