Are you tired of your teeth being ugly and gross looking? Well, you’re not alone. In fact, many people all over the world struggle to keep their teeth looking nice and pretty all year round, especially when the seasonal depression starts to kick in and it becomes a lot harder to take care of themselves. I know from personal experience that keeping your teeth white can be somewhat of a daunting task, especially when you think about all the food and beverage products we consume regularly that tend to stain and yellow our teeth. I personally have always had a hard time trying to keep my teeth white, especially when combining my love of coffee with my love of going days on end without brushing my teeth. When you factor in these two elements, it’s no wonder why my teeth look like the bottom of a public bus seat.

Well, I started to research different means of whitening your teeth at home. You might be wondering why I wouldn’t just head to Walmart and pick up some whitening strips or something like that – well, the problem with commercial products that you can find in stores to whiten your teeth are often way overpriced and aren’t all that special. In fact, the active ingredients (the thing that actually does the whitening) are basically just some basic household items that are way cheaper than what the products cost. I know that this is really unfair for people like you and me, so I decided to put together a list of teeth whitening methods that can be done at home for extremely cheap compared to any products you’d find in stores.

The first tip I have for you about teeth whitening is through a thing called hydrogen peroxide. If you are unfamiliar with what hydrogen peroxide is, then all I have to say to you is that I don’t really know what it is or what it does, I just know that you can use it for a lot of different things. One of those uses happens to be teeth whitening, which is actually backed by science and totally works. Using hydrogen peroxide to whiten your teeth is way better than using some form of whitening strips because a bottle of hydrogen peroxide is way cheaper and also extremely easy to use. Hydrogen peroxide has actually been used for centuries to whiten people’s teeth as well as kill bacteria in the mouth. So if it was good enough for royalty in the 1600s, then it’s good enough for you. If you want to whiten your teeth with hydrogen peroxide, simply put some in your mouth mixed with water and swish and swirl it around like you would with mouthwash or something. Hydrogen peroxide is actually one of the active ingredients in most toothpastes and dental products, so you know that it works.

Another way to whiten your teeth is through this thing called oil pulling. The action of oil pulling is very similar to that of whitening your teeth with hydrogen peroxide, but instead you can use sunflower or coconut oil and swish it around in your mouth for about 15 to 20 minutes. Unlike hydrogen peroxide, there is no scientific evidence that oil pulling can actually whiten your teeth, so do with this knowledge what you will I suppose.