Did you ever watch your white kitchen cups turn a brownish color even after washing them?

Coffees, teas, highly pigmented foods do this to your cups, and also your teeth.

Common stains from food attach to plaque and tartar buildup on the teeth.

There are some easy things you can do at home in between your dental teeth cleaning visits to keep your teeth white and fresh looking.

Here’s a list of tips and recommendations:

• Keep your mouth clean; it cuts down on stain build up. If you can’t brush after every meal, make sure you rinse food out of your mouth after you eat.
• Strawberries whiten teeth!
  Rub one on your teeth every day-or mash and apply with your toothbrush (rinse mouth afterwards)
• Brush your teeth with a paste of baking powder and water
  
• Rub the inside of an orange peel on the teeth
• Brush your teeth with a paste of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide (rinse afterwards, don’t swallow)
• Burn a piece of toast, then scrape off the black layer of the toast
  (it is charcoal) and mix that with your toothpaste. Brush your teeth with this at night before bed
• Mix these ingredients and brush on teeth:
  1 tsp baking soda dash of salt then add
  a few drops of white vinegar, which will foam
• Brush with mustard oil and salt
• Make a paste of ground, dried bay leaves and dried orange peels (you may need to add some water). Rub on teeth
• Equal parts of lemon juice and salt – brush on as whitener
• Brush your teeth with apple cider vinegar

• Use an electric toothbrush. Studies show an electric toothbrush can remove 98.2 percent of plaque
• Great plaque dissolvers are anti-bacterial mouthwashes. Many have alcohols that aren’t all that healthy. The best natural mouthwash that I have come across is Thieves® Fresh Essence Plus Mouthwash from Young Living. It has essential oils such as peppermint, lemon, cinnamon, rosemary, eucalyptus, melissa leaf water, vitamin E, and other great stuff.