Hello everyone, Indians are the people who have taught the world how a man should keep his body clean. Brushing the teeth is the first thing that a person does when he wakes up in the morning. We start our first journey to keep our body clean. After that, bathing and other activities. In that way, tooth brushing is the basic activity for all the efforts we take to keep our body clean. Well friends, do you know in which nation this habit of brushing teeth appeared first.. Believe me, history says that the habit of brushing teeth was first among Indians.

It is known that the Indian people who lived in the Indus Valley Civilization (3300 BCE – 300 BCE) had the habit of brushing their teeth for the first time in the world. Initially they used sand powder to brush their teeth and later they touched the ashes of burnt trees with their fingers and started brushing their teeth. History tells us that the people of the Indus Valley were so advanced in civilization that they used neem-trees twigs to brush their teeth during the time of Gautama Buddha (563 BCE – 483 BCE). In short, almost 3000 (1000 BCE) years ago, the Indian people living in the Indus Valley had the habit of brushing their teeth every morning.

Then around the fifth century BC (500 BCE) the habit of brushing teeth from Indians reached China and Egypt through some traders. The Egyptians, who used ash for several centuries, soon learned that ash was not ideal for daily brushing. Following this, the Egyptians started to prepare powder separately. After various stages of research, salt, mint leaves, iris flower, and pepper along with twenty types of grains were powdered and the world's first tooth powder was made by the fourth century AD (400 AD). ) the Egyptians were successful in producing.

Notes on the production method of this tooth powder used only by the royal dynasty were written on papyrus sheets and some of them are still kept safe in the museum in Vienna, the capital of Austria. The history of toothpaste manufactured for public use that everyone knows dates back to AD. Starting from the ninth century. Ziryab (789 AD), an Islamic polymath from Persia based on the tooth powder production method mentioned by the Egyptians on papyrus sheets. In the ninth century (900 AD) he discovered a new method of mass production of tooth powder. Part 2 will be upload stay tuned.