• 86. Toothpaste

  • Mar 31 2025
  • Length: 17 mins
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86. Toothpaste

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  • We reach for it twice a day — without thinking about the decades of research and engineering that went into that squeezable tube of minty goo. Zachary Crockett extracts the last bit.

    • SOURCES:
      • Stephan Habif, chief technology officer at Colgate-Palmolive.
      • Sergio Leite, global head of Oral Care R&D at Colgate-Palmolive.
      • Peter Miskell, professor of international business history at the University of Reading.

    • EXTRAS:
      • "History of Toothpaste" (Delta Dental of Arkansas, 2019).
      • "Cavity Protection or Cosmetic Perfection? Innovation and Marketing of Toothpaste Brands in the United States and Western Europe, 1955–1985," by Peter Miskell (Business History Review, 2011).

    • RESOURCES:
      • "9,000-Year-Old Dentistry," by WIRED Staff (WIRED, 2006).
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