Asklemmy

44149 readers

1404 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

116

What item you use frequently would you be least surprised to learn is secretly bad for you? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

122 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This is sort of a shower thought because this morning I was using some shaving cream and I thought, if it turns out in 5 years this was giving me cancer, I wouldn't be surprised.

Comes out a goo, ejected from a can with force, immediately becomes a foam?

Do you have anything you use that you think might be too good to be true?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the number of things growing on your toothbrush is definitely non zero but being frequently scrubbed in sodium fluoride probably inhibits a good portion of it\

related though, electronic toothbrushes are way, way better in terms of tooth care, and my understanding the last time I read through marketing bullshit a few years ago was that the rotational/mechanical ones were better than the ones that just vibrate i.e. Oral B vs Sonicare, but the fucking Oral B toothbrush heads have fucking exposed bits of the mechanism, like, there's these holes in it, so like, guess what? mold grows in there

I don't understand how that isn't like, you know, a massive design flaw that should be changed immediately, but I guess they want people to swap toothbrushes more often than mold would grow, idk

[–] vtctechadmin@vegantheoryclub.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A bit of advice from some dental organizations and my family member who is a dentist, you really shouldn't use the same toothbrush twice a day. The toothbrush should be left to completely dry out before reusing and that takes longer than 16 hours in most climates.