Simple Ways to Naturally Whiten Your Teeth at Home

Do you feel confident with your smile ? What does your teeth look like when you smile? White clean brilliant or yellow? Having yellow teeth will make others feel disgusted and uncomfortable seeing you. It's an unpleasant situation right? Let's first find out what causes yellow teeth before you start trying to whiten teeth.

The cause of yellow teeth:

1. Alcohol

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The habit of consuming alcohol can also cause teeth to become yellow. Moreover, too much alcohol is not good for the health of the body.

2. Coffee

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High caffeine content in coffee can make your teeth yellow. Especially when it has become a habit of drinking coffee, can even make a black tooth.

3. Smoking habits

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Nicotine content in cigarettes can cause your teeth to turn yellow.

4. Rarely brush your teeth

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Rarely brushing your teeth can also be a cause of yellow teeth. Because the remaining food on the teeth will settle and make the teeth yellow. Therefore be diligent to brush your teeth twice a day. After breakfast and before bed.

5. The wrong way of brushing

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We usually think that we have brushed our teeth the right way. By brushing your teeth randomly, the rest of the food that is on your teeth will not be eroded perfectly. This will make the germs contained in the leftovers cause your teeth to turn yellow. Therefore, start doing a proper way of brushing your teeth for at least 2 minutes.

How to whiten teeth naturally:

There are many ways to whiten teeth. You can come to the doctor or buy tooth whitening medication, but of course you should spend a reasonable cost for it. Maybe you should try to whiten teeth naturally. Which has proven powerful and without side effects:

1. Charcoal

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Charcoal has alkaline properties that serves to scrape and remove yellow stains on your teeth. Charcoal does look dirty, but small-scale use will not have a negative impact on the body.

Here is how:

1. Prepare coconut shell charcoal
2. Mash until smooth, then sifted
3. Mix the powder with 1 tbsp lemon juice

Use it as toothpaste for your yellow teeth.
 
2. Apple vinegar

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Apple vinegar is useful as a way to whiten teeth naturally.

Here is how:

1. Prepare 1 tablespoon apple vinegar and a glass of water
2. Mix 2 ingredients until evenly distributed
3. Use cotton bud to apply on teeth
    
   3. Coconut Oil
   
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Coconut oil can also be used as a way to whiten teeth naturally next.

Here is how:

1. Prepare coconut oil and baking soda
2. Mix them into pasta
3. Use as toothpaste
    
   4. Clove oil
   
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Other than effective to treat a sore tooth, clove oil can also be used to whiten your yellow teeth.

**Here is how: **

Simply by applying clove oil on your teeth.

5. Siwak

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Siwak is better known as herbal medicine to maintain oral health. Siwak function can inhibit bacterial growth, scrape plaque, prevent cavities, especially to whiten teeth. Our ancestors used to use siwak by chewing the trunk.

Here is how:

1. Apply a clean siwak rod that has been finely ground on the teeth evenly
2. Can also mix it with water until shaped pasta then use it as a toothpaste

6. Betel leaf

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Betel leaf is a traditional recipe since ancient times that proved efficacious as a way to whiten teeth naturally. Maybe you've seen your grandmother or grandfather chewing something until their mouth is red.

Betel leaf is useful as a tooth amplifier, stop bleeding in the gums, eliminate bad breath, and also as a way to whiten teeth naturally.

Here is how:

You can use it by chewing or boiling it and then used to rinse or dab on the teeth evenly.

9. Orange peel

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The oil found in orange peel is useful to whiten your teeth naturally. In addition to whiten teeth, orange peel can also keep your mouth and teeth healthy.

Here is how:

1. Dry the orange peel until completely dry in the sun
2. Pound until smooth
3. Mix it with water until it is a paste
4. Use as toothpaste

10. Banana peel

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you can whiten your yellow teeth naturally with banana peel.

Here is how:

1. Take a banana peel that have been cleaned first then rub a clean banana skin on your teeth.