How to Clean Teeth With Soap

If you have overly sensitive teeth or experience bleeding gums when you clean your teeth, you may want to switch from toothpaste to soap. The fluoride, dyes, sodium lauryl sulfate and artificial sweeteners in many toothpastes can be abrasive. Specially formulated soaps made just for teeth are available on the market and don’t have an overly soapy taste. You can also use regular bar soap.

Things You'll Need

• Tooth soap
• Toothbrush
• Faucet
• Cup
• Water or mouthwash
• Bar soap
• Gauze

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Instructions

Cleaning With Commercial Tooth Soap

• 1

  Dip your finger into the container of tooth soap, and get about a dime-size amount of soap on your finger.

• 2

  Spread the tooth soap across the bristles of your brush. If the soap does not cover all the bristles, get a little more soap from the container.

• 3

  Put your brush under warm, slow running tap water for one second to wet the soap.

• 4

  Brush your teeth by holding the toothbrush at a 45-degree angle to the gums and brushing all surfaces of your teeth.

• 5

  Rinse the soap out of your mouth with a cup of water or mouthwash.

Cleaning With Bar Soap

• 6

  Wet the bar of soap under running water.

• 7

  Rub a piece of gauze across the bar of soap. Don’t dig into the bar too heavily. Just get a thin coat of soap on the gauze.

• 8

  Clean your teeth a tooth at a time by grasping the tooth with your thumb on the inside surface and your index finger on the outside. Wipe the soapy gauze on the tooth in an up and down motion, making sure to get under the gum if you can.

• 9

  Repeat this process until you have cleaned every tooth.

• 10

  Rinse your mouth with a cup of water or mouthwash.