I’ve never seen labeling like this before. Interesting.

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    I hate to rain on a parade, but it’s marketing bullshit. Aqua comes from water, isn’t it? Purified one at that? “Vegetable”? Calcium fluoride is a source? “Natural ore” as opposed to an artificial lab grown ore?
    It kinda looks nice unless you actually read it, or know what words mean. And if you do it’s obvious ploy to capture very ignorant people.

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      7 days ago

      You can find those things out. Natural ore means it comes from natural deposits (its not a lab-formulated compound).

      Some people prefer natural ingredients. Thats it.

      Otherwise its very common with synthetic or refined chemical ingredients in toothpaste, like:

      • Sodium fluoride / stannous fluoride (lab-produced, though based on natural elements)

      • Artificial abrasives (engineered silica)

      • Detergents like sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS)

      • Synthetic preservatives, flavors, or colorants

      Same reason people want to grow their own food. They know whats in it and what they put in their body.

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      It kinda looks nice unless you actually read it, or know what words mean.

      Teaching children is pointless because it might look nice, but if you already know the stuff then you would recognize that it’s all fairly trivial, well-known stuff. No reason to point it out.

    • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca
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      What, you don’t feel more informed to know that your glycerin comes from a miscellaneous vegetable?

      Natural ore made me laugh. I mean, asbestos and beryllium are naturally occurring ores too…