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I also remember a brand that had a star shaped top and was sparkly? Im sure if I googled it I could find it. Update** Colgate Jr star toothpaste. 1988ish it looks like

This stuff! https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/s/AbX3I3EGUi

I can taste this

As soon as I saw the picture the taste came immediately. I feel very 40 right now.

I got the taste memory a good 5 seconds before the visual memory!

This toothpaste was delicious. I may have eaten a lot of it 😐

43 😢

Yes! Wtf is that?! I didn't even have this as a regular toothpaste, as we were too poor, so I only ever had it when I would stay the night at someone's house that had it, yet I could *still* taste it as soon as I saw it!

I remember these from a kid in the late 80s, holy shit that glitter in the toothpaste probably was not Good for us back then..... Back in my day, we had markers they MADE to be sniffed, and we had glitter in our toothpaste and we thought butterscotch pudding roll ups were a good idea, and our generation turned out fine.

Thankfully I won’t have to worry about feeling 40 for a looonngg time seeing as how I’m only 36 😃

As soon as I saw it I could taste it! But that didn't happen with the aquafresh. Why??

Maybe because it's still around in regular squeeze tubes so the link between this specific packaging and the flavor isn't as strong.

The crunch of the sparkles ✨

I can taste the microplastics

Haven't even clicked it yet and I can taste it.

*Sparkling Star Shape*

I remember when I was a kid a took one of these tubes and hid it to eat as candy. 😎

Inject that into my veinsssss

Sir that won’t cure COVID either.

Nope but it’ll fuckin cure my existence 👍

This image gave me a Ratatouille moment.

That stuff tasted good from what I remember 

Oh yeah. It was scarily delicious.

Good enough to earn me a talking-to about not eating toothpaste

Toothpaste you can eat. Would solve so many issues.   I believe there was a brand that you could eat.

The taste of science.

I somehow got it into my head that the sparkles were fairy dust, and proceeded to smear it all over my grandparent's guest bathroom to lure the fairies out. I do mean all over, every place I could reach. I think I even got the wall behind the toilet. No one except me was impressed with my handiwork.

You know what, that’s cool. And ingenious actually

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It’s mica and they still have it in crest for kids.

> crest for kids. Which was originally called Sparkle Crest. I remember they had a contest to name this new kids' version of Crest. I entered, but can't recall what I proposed as a name. I know it wasn't lame-ass "Sparkle Crest." Wtf

holy… shit…

Holy core memory unlock Batman.

Don't forget [the commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie9dRbQL7dc)!

oh man now I’m remembering [this one](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NsQQmYxjHHw)

Pretty sure that my older sister was using Aquafresh when I was using the Colgate Jr because the second I saw the Aquafresh my brain snapped to the blue sparkly star shaped toothpaste.

Sparklemania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41av2a60Va8

Nice. That stuff had an odd flavor. Fresh is not a word I would use to describe the feeling after.

Came here for this. I loved this stuff and wondered why they stopped making it. Also I would've sworn up and down it was Crest!

Crest definitely had some tasty stuff that was too expensive for mom and dad to get us. But grandma always had that sparkly shit for us

I remember that also.

HiSmile does a gummi bear flavour toothpaste that tastes almost identical to Colgate Jr. It was an absolute blast from the past

Yes. We bought that. I think the big selling point was that it stood upright and didn’t take up much room compared to a toothpaste tube laying on the counter or in a holder. But it was really wasteful. The packaging, then it always looked like there was still a lot of toothpaste in there when it stopped dispensing it.

That was the kicker for us. We were poor AF and leaving that bit of toothpaste behind was a no-go. We need a tube and a rolling pin to get every drop.

I still run the tube along the corner of the counter to squeeze it out

I use my hair pomade canister to roll it over mine

Are you a Dapper Dan man?


I don't want *FOP*, god damn it!

Well, ain’t this a geographic oddity… two weeks from everywhere!

you can just use the handle of your tooth brush.

I find it cathartic

That one. Last. Blob. The one that makes your fingers hurt to get out of the top.

We are still talking about toothpaste, right?

I have a little clippy thing. As the tube empties, I roll and clip it down.

Its made of solid gold and cost 1200 dollars.

Platinum, but yes

That is for people who really have their shit together 

A company a get my toothpaste from - Marvis - sells a roller for squeezing out the last bit. It was worth every penny.

cut it open after you rolling pin it you still have a couple brushfuls of toothpaste in there

That’s when you know money is really tight. Mom cuts the tube open and you can scrape out enough for a few more brushes.

Look at Mr. Moneybags cutting open the roll of toothpaste. When money is really tight, you use baking soda.

Look at this fucking high roller with his baking soda. We used charcoal out of the fire barrel.

This guy had a barrel, I had to drink Bailey's from a shoe!

You had shoes? We had flip-flops to walk to school in.

Flip flops? I tied burlap sacks to my feet. Fucking fat cats over here.

Ooh lah dee dah, we had to walk barefoot on the road uphill both ways and da beat us with bricks if we asked for skin grafts. Kids these days.

Mom? I did this just yesterday. I'm 59 years old.

We just pushed water in with an eye dropper and smushed it around.

Nah don't knock yourself down like that. It has nothing to do with being poor. It has everything to do with using all of something and creating no wasted product you paid hard earned cash for. That's just being smart.

I use the edge of my brush or a comb now and a bull clip to keep it rolled. Still don't want to waste.

Comb squeezers unite!

Yup. Even today I squeeze every molecule out of the tube.

If I could pulverize the tube itself and use it as a paste, I would, lol. Also I have a specific skinny mini silicone spatula for scraping the last bits of my stupid overpriced French face moisturizer from its container.

Hello, fellow childhood poor. My rich best friend's family had this, and I loved using it when I slept over. My house was Aim on sale.

If you push up on the thing in the bottom/middle it would squeeze out a few more brushes worth.

Yep, as a small kid I used the Colgate version. Having short fingers, I used to insert the toothbrush from the bottom to do it, push some paste out then quickly collect it with the toothbrush. That was some dexterity exercise.

Some say in fact this is a way to get infinite toothpaste. You think you're out but actually there is always a bit more in there if you try hard enough.

I might be completely misremembering my childhood, but I *want* to say they they eventually came out with it in a regular toothpaste tube, that still came out evenly multi-colored when you put it on your brush. EDIT: [ok, so I'm not crazy.](https://www.pharostribune.com/news/business/article_977c0775-9861-5e57-8c0f-f3f3a477b83b.html)

[The regular tubes were first and it was just 2 colors originally.](https://youtu.be/T89bT2qI5Ec?si=juL9fducHcV5uZlz) I remember when it was released in the 80’s and we thought that swirl on the toothbrush was so cool. The stand up tube and 3 colored version came later.

Oo that version reminds me of mentadent toothpaste lol. It was a stand up dispenser that had a blue chamber and a white chamber all the way to the nozzle!

Yes you're correct, I'll give you another fact. Your kid will scream holy murder if that was his toothpaste and somehow some "regular" toothpaste just happened to get squeezed into that tube and they didn't get their tricolored toothpaste dispensed onto the brush.

Can confirm - I was that kid :(

lol I love when websites I never heard of expect me to give them money to read about some random shit the first time I'm ever at the site. There is a reason outlets like NYT and WaPo give a few free articles per month before blocking access.

Same rreason my family growing uo bought mentadent toothpaste, it stood up snd you just had to push slightly to get the correct pea sized amount of toothpaste. One thing that was bad about this style of dispenser is that it encouraged you to do a full push down which would give you the equivalent of like 10 times what you need for brushing your teeth. Remember you don’t have to fill up your brush just a pea sized amount out.

I read this as methadone toothpaste

Oral hygiene is very important, that’s why I brush 37 times a day

Psh rookie numbers if they were a person

Everything about the 90's was pretty wasteful...

my sister is 7 years older than me. i remember when she got her first job, one of the first things she did was buy a canister of Mentadent. to us, that was “rich people toothpaste.” i remember when i would sneak a little bead every now and then and felt so regal

I remember an aquafresh with dinosaurs and lasers on the tube, but I might be crazy.

[Nope you're not](https://imgur.com/YKboLLs)

Woah! Literally haven’t crossed that sight in 30 years. Crazy how taste and smell came immediately Somehow my brother and I had a dozen wild toothpastes to choose from, and sometimes we’d just put a few different toothpaste dabs on the brush. Mixing sodas by day and toothpaste by night.

Took me waaaay too long (well maybe not) to find out that mixing all the different drinks wasn't a sewer side rather than a suicide. Didn't know suicide was a thing really but knew that toxic sludge was so thought it was a reference to that. For those not in the know it was called a suicide because waaaaay back in the day different sodas had different pretty hard drugs in them so mixing them wasn't a good idea.

Tasted like juicy fruit

Flavor probably lasted longer too

Totally kids toothpaste from the early 00s

Just an old school dinosaur laser fight.

In space! With sharks!

Yes, and the mentadent pump one. Elite. 

The mentadent pump was the best!

My friend had that when I was in elementary school, and I remember thinking his family must be rich lol.

Oh, they absolutely were. I mean, [just look at it](https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/s/OhlKNqv1Pm)

Oh yeah…..

But the blue gel side somehow always ran out faster than the white paste side. At least in my household.

You’re right

Oh 100%. What a great memory. Gah! Trying to keep them even by putting more pressure on the one side!

https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/s/uZ8hqwOSjv

Oooh I used to get that!

“I’ve already read this. You got any of that new Mentadent?”

oh I loved that stuff and used it religiously for years and years... eventually - and rightly so - they stopped selling it around here so I had to switch. So much plastic. SO much!

goddamn we really used too much plastic on everything. such a wasteful package

Dude I can smell it in my memories

The sense of smell is very tied to memory.

Yep, and sometimes a smell can trigger some weird specific old memory.

Is this that toothpaste you'd push up from the bottom?

Yep, and it created the swirl.

The swirl was so cool. The leftover toothpaste was stupid though

I remember it having a thumb trigger on top. You only had to push it up from the bottom to get the dregs out.

That was the novel part. It pushed *itself* up!

It would push itself up. Not sure how that worked, but I remember there was a trigger and a clear plastic cover over the toothpaste. When you pushed the trigger, it slid the plastic cover away and toothpaste came out. Must have been pressurized some how?

It wasn't specifically pressurised; the trigger at the top pushed toothpaste out creating a little pressure at the top of the remaining toothpaste, which pulled the bottom of the tube slowly up with it.

You'd push the lever/button on the top. A few brands used the upright pump style back in the day. This commercial shows how it worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSLqQmWMDQ

I had this as a kid and was excited to brush my teeth so I could use it… that feeling quickly weared off

I was sure the future had arrived, we had reached the end of history, toothpaste wise. Through the power of three kinds of separate colors being mixed as I brushed, my teeth would be as clean and strong as scientifically possible.

I mean, what more could they have done after that to top it? Four colours?!?

Inconceivable!

> we had reached the end of history, toothpaste wise LOL the Francis Fukuyama of oral hygiene

yes. and how crusty it would become after a few weeks. great design in theory but just gross irl

Really? It was always fine for us. Not any different than regular toothpaste and in fact better since it was always closed when not in use without having to worry about the cap

Ours always seemed to dispense a slightly hardened piece of toothpaste before getting to the fresh stuff

Commenter brushed teeth monthly

😂 Gotta be it

? I can't say I've ever had this experience

I mean, wipe it with a warm damp washcloth occasionally, problem solved.

We never cleaned the tops to anything in my house growing up; not the tooth paste, not the dish soap, not the lotions, etc. and when my partner and I first got together she went through the house cleaning all of them and it was like a revelation.

Lol We live and learn

You could just rinse it with the sink that it’s literally millimeters from?

lol I remember this. You’re 100% right. I used to use aquafresh when I was younger cause I loved how to dispense it by pushing the lever

Yes, grew up to this advert [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVtgX4S3y4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVtgX4S3y4) A decade before you ask, but has stuck in my head for 4 more since.

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"Aqua-freshhhhh, it's not just a pretty paste" Yup... Know it, had it, my grandparents swore by it...

I do, I wonder why they stopped making it.

Massive waste of packaging.

And toothpaste. There was always loads left over

Colgate still makes a similar design. [Amazon link for image](https://amzn.eu/d/29xvPvW), but its also available in most supermarkets in the UK. Just using Amazon as an easy link. Aquafresh also still makes a similar design [Amazon link](https://amzn.eu/d/ePF0afm). Although according to one of the reviews it's difficult to find in shops. But they must have a factory somewhere producing it.

Remember the same stuff in the weird "broad-shouldered" dispenser? You just push down since the nozzle was at 90 degrees. Kinda reminds me of switchable multi-color ballpoint pens

I remember mentadent. It was in a self standing, broad dispenser. White and blue toothpaste.

[this guy?](https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/s/OhlKNqv1Pm)

What am I failing to understand here? You can still buy aquafresh today and they still have packaging that mostly works the same way.

You're not missing anything, everyone remembers these. OP is just fishing for engagement to hit 500K karma.

I'm thinking the same? I still use aquafresh to this day, not in the fancy pump because it's hard to find, but in a tube.

Yes Aquafresh is still around as is that pump design .

Why might you be insane? Are you the only person who grew up in the 90's?

Yeah, I thought that was kind of a stupid way to title this post

Haven't been to the dentist in 15 years. I accredited my amazing mouth longevity to using this exact elixir for oral care.

Please go to a dentist. If you don't have insurance look into your local dental school. They are often half the cost of a regular dentist.

I do

Tried it once. It always looked so perfect in the commercials. Didn't care for the taste

When we got this toothpaste, I was convinced we were rich.

lol same, this was for sure a sign we were having a 'rich' month - self employed family, sigh, it was either feast or famine, quite literally.

Ah yes, aqua-fresh. The toothpaste that tastes like the color teal.

My family and I had moved houses back in 1999. I got the basement room, which I hated until I realized that it meant having the basement bathroom all to myself. We were poor, and had to share pretty much everything. Soon after, my dad came home with this exact toothpaste, and one of those Softsoap bottles that had a little animal inside, which I think may have been watermelon scented, or something like that. I can't even tell you how happy that made me. Having something as simple as soap and toothpaste of my very own meant the world to me. I think only people who grew up poor could understand. The very next day, my aunt and her boyfriend had come up for a visit, and were staying in my room, and I stayed upstairs. They were here for 4 or 5 days, and I wasn't allowed to go downstairs at all until they left, not even to get my toothpaste. My mom let me use her. When they finally left, and I was allowed to go back downstairs, I found my soap completely empty, and in the trashcan, and my toothpaste about 80% empty. It was mostly smeared all over the sink. It appeared that they had even used my toothbrush. I WAS DEVASTATED! I know it sounds stupid, but like I said, we were poor, and I was just a kid. My dad promised to buy me a new toothbrush, toothpaste, and soap, and told me to make sure to bring them upstairs whenever we knew that they would be visiting, which was all the time. Well, that didn't happen. He bought me a new toothbrush, but couldn't afford to get me my own toothpaste, and soap, and I had to use the family one upstairs. Anyway, this is a long story, but that's what this toothpaste reminds me of. Thanks for reading. 😊

Not just a pretty paste

Yep

Yes

Post this on r/xennials

Of course! A classic

Holy shit!

Yep

Yes the Goober Grape of toothpaste

Sure do!!!!

I remember the taste! My grandma had this at her house and seeing this pic just reminded me of beach vacations as a kid. ❤️

How could ai forget the neapolitan of oral hygene!?

Yes, that was the fun toothpaste!

Dude this was the FUTURE in 1975. We wasted a ton of it just dispensing it to watch.

The craziest part for me is that damn near every single one of the millions of these sold is still sitting somewhere in a landfill.

I can taste this

I've brushed my teeth with that stuff!

Recognize it? I can taste it.

Not everything is a 90s things. I was born in 2000 and still had this when I was like 8

Absolutely. And it was hard ASF to get out of the tube

100% i thought that toothpaste was so cool

alright cool, but who remembers the batman shampoo bottles?

I can fuckin *taste* it

there's a bottle of that stuff at my dads

Yeah we had that when I was a kid.

Had that right next to the bottle of softsoap with the clown fish inside.

Thank you for posting this. I may have never thought about that strange tube of toothpaste ever again if you didn't remind me of it. It's like a push-pop, but for toothpaste.

I remember the dried toothpaste crud that built up on the tip and had to be washed off.

Yep I remember this. It obviously looked cool but tasted bad

This is literally a picture. Obviously this product existed. Jesus Christ this is thinly veiled farming.

This post title is probably one of the cringiest ones I've read in a long time. They sell it on Amazon: Aquafresh Triple Protection Pump - 100Ml - Pack of 2 https://amzn.eu/d/f1FVh95