Teel Toothpaste - look ma even more cavities

Anyone remember the old Teel toothpaste? Actually it was not a paste at all. It was a dentifrice that was made in liquid form and came in a small glass bottle.

It was a thick liquid that stayed on your toothbrush and didn’t drip down off the toothbrush onto the bathroom floor.

When I was a kid, mother bought me a bottle of Teel to take along on a one-week trip to Junior Camp (now called Pathfinder Camp) at Lake Kampeska near Watertown, South Dakota. We lived in Sioux Falls at that time.

Not long after I got back from camp, I finished my tiny bottle of Teel. I loved the taste of Teel, but for the rest of the year I had to go back to the usual toothpaste found in the family medicine chest.

It was either tooth powder or toothpaste from a huge tube that was terribly misshapen from being squeezed from the middle, both ends and everywhere in between.

A year or two later I got anther bottle of Teel just before attending another one-week camp at Lake Madison near Madison, South Dakota.

I loved the taste of Teel but it’s a good thing I didn’t use it all the time. According to an article here, Teel actually caused cavities.

Teel was an experimental dentifrice with sodium fluoride made by Procter & Gamble. Teel was replaced by Gleem - remember that one? Gleem was later replaced by Crest which contained stannous fluoride.

Comments

[Darv Jemming]

I remember Teel toothpaste too. the bottle was rather unusual too as was the product. It was in the form of a upside down funnel.

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