Post #4503291
2026-08-10 23:13 UTC
some fuckwad in one of the subsidiaries decided to try creating a compound with silica to save money on the chalk used over 100 years to make toothpaste.
it ended up as exactly as you can imagine: the company paying up for “personal injury” cases and gagging people about mentioning anything in public.
which takes me back to the point of the triclosan patent: they literally were trying to create a need, for an antimicrobial, that wasn’t there…🧵
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 23:24
with the #AIDS crisis, they believed #triclosan would be the inevitable product to buy, cementing the company’s market dominance in all things detergent… because they didn't even want to make soap. it was cheap chemicals all the way to the bank for this group of Fortune 500 money-grubbing morons. they stuck triclosan into everything they could. after all, they held the patent to the chemical. so when i asked them if they had done any studies on the effects on normal skin & gut flora 🧵…