correct me if I'm wrong but growing up as a kid I remember toothpaste was squeezed for a tube made of lead!?

Question

I'm 50 years old now, and growing up untill the age of about 10 to 15 years old the old tootpaste tubes seemed to be made of lead. I have never seen one word published on this fact.

Answer 1

Yes. There was some lead content in the tube until they discovered a few things. For one thing, the lead pulled the fluoride OUT of the toothpaste so that all the benefits shown in the laboratory were missing after the toothpaste had been in the tube for a couple of months. Most of the lead was thereby tied up in the tube and not released into the toothpaste, so the contributions of toothpaste tubes to lead poisoning is questionable, but the possibility that it was doing harm was another reason to discontinue the use of lead in toothpaste tubes. Also, do a search on "lead poisoning toothpaste" and you will find thousands of references. Leaded gas and house paints are far and away the greatest historical threat to the general public concerning lead poisoning.

Answer 2

Yes, In the earlier days Lead was used. My father and I used the tubes as one of our sources for molding Lead soldiers and other items. This was before the detrimental effects of lead were found, possibly in the late '50s or early '60s.

Answer 3

Somehow I doubt this is true. Not only is lead quite poisonous, it doesn't seem like it would make a very good tube (or be very easy to squeeze).

Answer 4

I believe they were made of tin. Why don't you contact Crest Toothpaste and see what they say?

Answer 5

Yes it was and when you rolled it up it would stay rolled up.

Answer 6

lead?! it wouldn't surprise me but not that i know of

Answer 7

true-that's what caused brain damage