The story behind how toothpaste is made
In our daily lives, we come across a lot of products that we tend to use regularly, but what rarely crosses our minds is its story and how something that simple and usual is made. There is a different kind of machinery for manufacturing even the littlest thing and it can be fascinating if we pay attention to it. Just like that, a toothpaste is a product that has a proper manufacturing system. Do you want to know the story of the background and the daily manufacture of a toothpaste? The idea to first put toothpaste in tubes was brought up by Sheffield Labs, which was founded by the inventor of toothpaste Dr. Washington Wentworth Sheffield. His son Lucius noticed the collapsible metal tubes used for paints and thought it would be a good idea to adopt it for toothpaste among other pharmaceutical uses. The Colgate-Palmolive company claims to be the first one to manufacture these toothpaste tubes. It was only in 1980 that pumps and stand-up tubes came in place of the collapsible ones ...