- We're figuring out how to whiten our teeth.
- Using the Carbon Coco system.
- That I saw on Facebook.
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- Or was it Instagram?
- I don't know, so many socials, so little time.
- For some reason, I love just teeth whitening
and the teeth whitening products and that space.
- I have never explored or experimented
whitening my teeth in any way, shape, or form.
- So you never even dabbled with like Crest Whitestrips?
- No (chuckles).
And I know my teeth are yellow.
I understand that there's lots of improvement to be had.
- They are? - Yeah, they're yellow.
- I never noticed.
- You can really tell when I have on purple lipstick.
- When Crest Whitestrips first came out, I was like 12
and I was like, "I wanna try these, my teeth are yellow,"
and they worked, but my teeth hurt.
And so I was like, "I can't do these anymore."
- There's a few things about teeth.
One, some people just genetically just have more
yellow teeth than others.
Like teeth color is actually naturally a range.
People don't really like roll out of the womb
with like crystal white teeth.
- Really? - No.
Second of all, white teeth is very much an American
cultural thing, it's very much a thing that
you're kind of obsessed with, yeah.
- I'm obsessed with it.
- That is all to say I think that people should be
kinder to the color of their teeth than they actually are.
- This particular brand markets itself as being
like all-natural.
I hope it doesn't hurt.
- Should we start? - Yes.
- Yeah, let's start. - Okay.
So you have the Carbon Coco natural teeth whitening,
so this is like the charcoal powder.
Oh my god, it's so dark.
- Wait.
I wasn't, I thought it was a paste.
- Nope.
- So there's also a paste here.
I do like this packaging.
- It's very millennial. - It is.
This was made for social media.
(chuckles)
- [Kristin] The case is black too right?
- [Chantel] Whoa, the paste is black.
- Oh, that paste is really black.
This is like black paint.
- You also get a toothbrush.
There's this thing which we're not sure what it's for,
is that a tongue scraper? - Oh.
- It might be a tongue scraper because after you use
like all these black ash products, you need to like
scrape it off your tongue.
- The tongue, I didn't even think of that.
- Inside this box--
- Are a bunch of mayonnaise packets.
- Organic oil pulling.
- So this you kinda go like (vocalizing with tongue).
Then you go mm mm mm mm.
I've never oil pulled before though.
- I haven't either.
- And I know that there's some people that swear by
oil pulling for teeth whitening, I've never tried it,
but it has been something I wanted to try.
- We have all of the things we need, we have a bowl of spit,
we have cups of water in case things go left.
- Also, the instructions say we do the oil pulling
for five, 15 minutes, but the bottom of the box says
five to 20 minutes.
- We're doing this for five minutes.
(chuckling)
- Yeah, let's do 10.
We'll give it a fair shot.
- Ready?
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(gagging)
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(grunting indistinctly)
(chuckling)
- Oh god!
- We have to do that 13 more times!
- That was pure torture.
- Also note to self, I can only do this whilst naked,
because I will mess up every single article of clothing
I have, this now has a oil stain forever.
Spit out excess oil, brush with activated
charcoal toothpaste for three minutes.
So that doesn't sound as bad.
Ooh!
- [Kristin] Yeah, it's very smooth.
- Oh, it smells so good.
- [Kristin] Cheers.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
- Three minutes.
- [All] Eight, seven, six, five, four, three,
two, one.
(alarm rings)
- My gums did not like that.
Ooh.
- Wait, is it stinging your gums?
- A little bit, I think it's the brush.
The brush is very enhanced.
I think I'm just going to have to adjust how I brush
so I don't brush so like (vocalizes scratching).
Like I'm not scrubbing the toilet.
Well (chuckles).
- Okay so now we tongue scrape.
All right, ladies, we just completed the morning routine,
which consists of oil pulling and then brushing.
Tonight before bed, we will do the night routine
which consists of the charcoal powder plus brushing.
- Adding something else into the mix is definitely gonna be
a challenge, but if it'll get my teeth whiter,
then I'm excited for it.
As seen on social, round two, Carbon Coco teeth whitening.
Here we go. - Here we go.
Freddie here.
It is night one where I'll be using the Carbon Coco.
Eeh.
- This is like the truest, darkest substance I've ever seen.
It's weird looking.
(brushes teeth)
- This is so gross.
I'm so pretty, oh,
getting everywhere, oh.
It's all over the sink.
No matter how much I rinse, my teeth are just tinged
with black.
- I will say my teeth do feel reallY, really clean.
They feel like after a dentist type clean.
- Do they already look brighter, whiter?
Okay I'm going to bed.
- My teeth do not like this.
Not one bit.
- Morning, it is day two of Coco Charcoal teeth whitening,
I'm going to oil pull this morning while I wash my hair.
We'll see how that goes, hopefully it won't be as bad,
cuz I'll be distracted and the time will go by quickly.
- If you had told me yesterday that oil pulling
would have been the easier part of this,
I would've been like, I don't need white teeth that badly.
It's like kissing a pot of Vaseline.
It's so, so gross and I gotta do it for 10 minutes.
- Okay so I just finished oil pulling.
It really was not that bad this time because I was
distracted by washing and doing my hair.
- I think that these oil pulling sessions
are starting to get better and better.
I don't think that I see much of a difference
in my teeth quite yet.
I mean it also hasn't even been a full week,
so I don't know why I would see a difference.
- I would say my teeth feel incredibly clean.
I mean they should, I basically just rubbed rocks
all over them for three minutes.
Hope that not hurtin' my teeth.
- It's the end of week one.
- Yes.
- It sure is.
- We've been Cocoing for a week.
- So the first night I did the charcoal brushing,
I didn't realize you're only supposed to put
like a tip of it in and I submerged my entire bristle area
in Coco.
I look like I just had a lip liner accident on purpose.
I don't even know how I'm gonna clean this all up.
It's all over my shirt.
- I completely ruined one of my t-shirts,
I can tell you that, cuz it went,
like I started brushing and it was like, art project
all over the bathroom and your shirt and your face.
Couldn't find a black shirt.
Settle on a shirt, I don't care if I fuck up.
You're gonna have spots on you, well it already has
bleach stains, so.
- I wanna say it was tough to kind of like add it
to my routine but the longer that it's part of my routine,
the easier it is.
This whole process is definitely starting to feel
just like it's moreso part of my routine,
because in the beginning I was like, "Ugh!
"Here's another thing that I have to do.
"Here's another thing."
I've been oil pulling in the shower
and I miss singing in the shower.
- We had to brush with charcoal for three minutes
and then following that, brush with the charcoal toothpaste
for three minutes and I realized that that's just a lot of
consecutive brushing for my gums.
- Yes.
- So the first night was rough.
My gums felt very raw afterwards.
Just rinsed the charcoal out.
Oh.
I am brushing for less time, so I'm brushing with charcoal
for two minutes and then brushing with the toothpaste
for two minutes.
So last night, brushing twice for three minutes each
was a bit much for my gums and my teeth.
Hopefully this doesn't affect the outcome too much,
but it's just way better for my comfortability.
- The charcoal gets everywhere, I have to do like
a very, very distinct wipe down of my sink afterwards,
because I'm like, I do not want to let this
charcoal bleed into my pearly white sink.
This charcoal better come off with a swift wiping.
If not, I'm gonna be mad.
- Have you guys noticed a difference in your teeth?
- I can't say that I've noticed a difference,
but from where I'm standing right now I haven't seen
any noticeable differences.
- Yeah, no difference yet.
- Nothing. - Nothing for you guys?
- [Kristin] Nothing.
- All right, are we ready for week two, ladies?
- Week two!
- Let's do it.
- This is actually a little bit more unpleasant today.
I don't know why, I think I accidentally swallowed
just the first tiny bit that went into my mouth
as I was like, ahh.
- I really love this toothpaste.
It tastes so yummy.
It's like the perfect wind down to get ready for bed.
- Man, this teeth whitening better work,
because you have to do a whole television episode's
worth of activities every single day.
- This is a night in which I would not brush my teeth at all
and go to sleep.
Call me nasty if you want to.
A player is tired.
Not even doing anything to my teeth.
Ah, damn it.
- So it's Saturday morning and so now I'm gonna use
my oil pulling time as tidy up my house time.
Mm-hm.
- This charcoal really makes my lipstick pop.
Man, this is gonna be coming out of my gums
for like the next eight hours.
- So it's the last day of charcoal cleaning
and all the bristles are now coming off of this toothbrush
and they're getting into my mouth,
so this toothbrush may not be meant to be doing
all of this excessive brushing.
- So we used Carbon Coco for two weeks to whiten our teeth.
And what do we think?
- My teeth hurt a lot from the carbon, after awhile,
yeah, it really, it was tough.
- Carbon Coco it says for best results,
use seven to 14 days.
We did 14 days.
If we miss a day or two, we've done 12 tops.
Which should have a noticeable change.
- I didn't see much of a difference with my teeth
like at all.
I think you might need chemicals for certain things,
bleaching being one of them.
- Some stains are on the enamel and some are kind of like
lower down, and it's really hard to get rid of the ones
that are lower down.
- Especially organically.
All right, are you ready to see before and afters?
- [Both] Yes.
- Honestly now that I'm looking at the first photo,
my teeth were perfectly fine in the first photo.
I don't think this helped at all, which is really annoying
cuz I spent a lot of time. - So much time.
- Baking a coconut cake in my mouth.
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- Show me my teeth.
Show me my, oh.
Yeah, there's little to no change for my teeth,
which is sad because I gave up singing in the shower.
It's a shame, two weeks of singing in the shower
that I will never get back.
Drum roll!
- Fred, Fred, Fred, Fred, Fred, Fred, Fred, Fred, Fred.
- And.
- You know, I think I had the highest hopes out of all of us
that this product would work, especially since it's
all over social media.
The before and afters that they had were impressive,
so I was just like, "Oh this is a great natural way
"to whiten my teeth since I am scared of the pain
"that comes from white strips."
And, yeah, nope, mm-mm.
- Who is this working for?
I'm guessing but I think it might be working for people
who maybe drink a lot of coffee,
have a lot of surface stains.
- Surface stains. - Uh-huh.
- I think for us there's just a certain amount of yellow
that's just happening.
- Just genetic stains. - Yeah.
- I have seen other people do it and say that
it worked for them, but it's very possible that our teeth
just don't jive with this particular system, which is fine,
they can join other teeth clubs.
- Carbon Coco.
Lady tested, lady...
- Disappointed!
(laughing)
- Grr!
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