J: Dun dun dun dah! C: Ooh, what's that?
J: Okay, this is carbon Coco Natural Teeth Whitening. It's basically- I'm gonna spill this everywhere now-
It's carbon powder. C: Hmm.
J: I think this is effectively soot. C: Yes, basically. That is what carbon powder is.
J: This is soot.Yes, so we're going to be trying to clean our teeth with soot and it will apparently whiten it.
C: Yeah, patients ask me this actually. They say "What about what do you think of that soot thing?"
And I'm like "Well, I don't know." I don't think it would be harmful for your teeth
It might be ever so slightly abrasive J: Oh, okay.
C: And that might be why it takes off some staining. But then, you know, some toothpastes have little abrasion particles in them
J: *gasp* The dentist's opinion! Hmm, there you go.
C: So we will see I would probably say maybe don't use it like everyday
I mean, what does it say on the recommendation? "For best results, use daily, 7 - 14 days
Then use the organic coconut oil in the morning and activated charcoal tooth polish at night"
J: Oh! Which is what we have. C: "Please note results can take up to 14 days to appear if used daily"
J: Ah! C: So we may not have an amazing effect for right after this one time
J: Okay. I'm slightly nervous about this. This doesn't look like something I should put in my mouth.
But we're going to see. Toothbrushes ready. C: Oops
J: So apparently you just dab your toothbrush in. Ahh! There's soot on my toothbrush, this feels wrong.
We actually have a wedding that were going to you later today- C: Yeah, it had better come off!
J: Um *laughing* So we're trying to have nice white teeth but also, oh my god what if this goes wrong?
Okay. Okay, are we ready? C: Yep J: I'm scared!
C: Cheers! J: Cheers!
*tooth brushing musical interlude*
J: You have to brush for 3 minutes. Argh! Your mouth looks so weird!
Oh my god. Does my mouth look like that?
C: Yeah. I don't know what mine looks like but I'm guessing it looks like yours.
J: *squeals* This feels so wrong!
*musical brushing break*
C: Right, so they do feel a bit whiter, and they definitely feel cleaner, but I was just saying to Jessie-
Apparently I can't be on screen time without her. It's not the Claudia Fozard channel
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard channel. I'm just like- J: What? What happened?
C: I don't know. I was just telling people that I was saying they do feel clean, like, really clean
And they do feel like- Well. They do feel- How can something feel whiter?
They looked a little bit whiter in the mirror, but it might all just be because
before I put the charcoal on I had just had a coffee so they were already looking a bit darker anyway
Cuz I hadn't brushed my teeth this morning because I was like "Well, I'm gonna do the charcoal thing and then brush it"
So they were probably already a little bit darker than they would have been.
And secondly, it gets everywhere like in between your teeth, on your tongue that you have to, like, brush for-
I think we were brushing probably like 4 to 5 minutes to get everything away, weren't we?
And I'm even now I feel like I need to go floss because I haven't had time to do that.
J: I'm just gonna- I'm gonna be spitting charcoal for days, I feel
C: Yeah, so I feel like if they say you should do it for 7 to 14 days
It's because really what they're going to do is just encourage people to brush their teeth really thoroughly
Twice a day for like 14 days
Which then of course, if you don't brush your teeth normally very well, they're gonna look whiter!
J: Yeah, I'm a pretty thorough brusher. I over brush in fact. I brush my teeth for about ten minutes
Then Claudia tells me off.
I think we're slightly biased because I'm a dentist and you are like really quite controlling with your teeth
and your beauty regimes *Jessica laughing*
So I think we brush our teeth really well anyway. J: I have very good oral hygiene
C: I think it would be probably a really quite a good thing, this Coco charcoal, for teenagers, because
from my experience, a lot of teenagers don't brush their teeth very well because they're just really lazy
But a lot of teenagers are also driven by looking good.
So, I think this would be a good present for them because you could be like
"Okay. This is gonna make your teeth whiter. Just use it like every other day"
And then you'd know at least every other day, they're gonna be doing a good job on their teeth
J: And to be honest, there's an element of fun in it. C: Oh yeah, it was quite fun.
J: If you have black teeth and your mouth is black
C: Hmm, yeah. It's a good one for Halloween actually you looked really scary J: Thanks
C: You looked like a scary doll J: Maybe I'll wear it to the YouTube party, the Halloween party
C: Yeah J: I'll just have black teeth *laughing*
C: Yeah. And everyone else would be like looking really gorgeous.
J: Mmmm C: An excuse to wear a bunny outfit. And you'd be like "Huhh"
J: Because Halloween is supposed to be about looking ugly, guys. It's not about looking sexy
We've seen Mean Girls. We know the truth.
C: Oh, yeah, she has that kind of black thing doesn't she? J: Hmm
Normally you whiten your teeth with trays C: Special dental trays. Not like, you know, a roasting tin
Like... So you basically have a mold it's like a sports guard
It's custom-made to fit your mouth, and then you put like a tiny little bit of like home bleach in it.
It's like 5.6 percent hydrogen peroxide J: You can get it from your dentist
C: Yeah, you should only get it from your dentist, really. some people do do it,
But I wouldn't recommend it because it's not controlled. You don't really know where they've got the beach
J: I think this is quite good for a very immediate thing C: Hmm
J: I would say though, don't do it once you've done your makeup because now I have to fix it.
I got it in my nose, I got it inbetween my lips- C: Why did you get it in your nose?
J: Erm, I don't know. Apparently I'm a very messy brusher. What can I say?
C: I wouldn't, like, not recommend it. I said like I could see purposes for it
J: Oh yeah, no. Mm. Mm.
C: But were not overly convinced of its whitening properties J: No
Plus points, though: It's cruelty free. They don't do animal testing because why would you need to test?
C: More environmentally friendly, J: Yeah
C: than brush- like, putting bleach in your mouth, which sounds wrong
J: And also, you do have those toothpastes that are supposed to be whitening
but they actually have microbeads in C: Yeah, they're being banned though
J: You put them down the drain, and they destroy the environment.
And this is good this just like dissolves away, so...
C: Yeah. I actually did have soot come out of my nostrils once like cuz I kept-
Cos I always got nosebleeds when I was younger, and my mum took me to the GP
And he was like "Oh-" And he was, like, nearly retired. He was, like, gonna retire the next day
J: He was old school.
And he was like "Oh, we don't have the little silver nitrate swabs
that we usually cauterize the blood vessels with, but I've got these"
And he literally got like this old chemistry set with an anode an electrode thing. It was like *imitates buzzing*
And then he heated them up electrically and just literally just shoved one up my nose.
It was like the worst pain I've ever felt and I was just holding my mum's hand like...
She was like "It's alright. We'll come back later."
And he was like "No no no. Good old-fashioned style"
And then I had, like, a black bit coming out - of soot.
Burnt hair and burnt skin follicles coming down my nose for about 2 weeks
And everyone at school was like "You've just got a little like- You got like-"
YES I KNOW! I know I've got a little bit there J: Blackness
*laughing* That's a horror movie right there. Aww
C: I still- It's better now, but I had scar tissue inside my nose for about five- like three or five years J: Damaged
And the bummer is, you still get nosebleeds really often C: I know
So yeah, I'd recommend the charcoal in the mouth, but not up the nose
is the take-away from this *Jessica laughing*
J: Alright we need to go get ready for this wedding now. C: Oh yeah
J: Ooh, yeah! Wedding! *kiss* Second wedding of the weekend.
C: Oh. *kiss* Bye-bye! See you Friday!
*kiss*