If you haven’t heard, hydrogen peroxide is pretty versatile. Many mouthwash formulas include some hydrogen peroxide to whiten your front and back teeth for a celeb-worthy smile, giving you white glove whitening without hurting your teeth or stripping off precious layers of enamel. 

If you want to learn more about hydrogen peroxide and how you can brighten your smile like a boss, stay with us! 

Using Hydrogen Peroxide Mouthwash

Most mouthwashes and oral rinses promise freshening and anti-bacteria (though Supersmile helps prep your smile for dramatic whitening results while also washing away bacteria, plaque, food particles, and more!). You can also instantly freshen your breath while keeping odor-causing bacteria at bay. 

When it comes to actually swishing that mouthwash, we are here to give you a blow-by-blow set of instructions to follow if you have never really learned the right way to gargle before:

• Toss in a small amount of hydrogen peroxide mouthwash. Usually, mouthwash comes with a cap that doubles as a little cup and can measure the correct amount of mouthwash. If your mouthwash does not come with a cup, usually a small Dixie cup used for brushing your teeth will give you enough mouthwash.
• Try to avoid swallowing the mouthwash. We get it, sometimes it happens, and while ingesting a small amount isn’t harmful, it should definitely be avoided. On that note, make sure to supervise children when they use mouthwash.
• You will want to swish the mouthwash around for around 30 seconds to a minute. Whether you want to set up a timer on your phone or just count it out depends on personal preference. Still, sixty seconds will give the hydrogen peroxide enough time to soften the plaque on your teeth, scrub out the bacteria, and get in all of the tiny crevices in your teeth.
• Spit it out when you are done. If you are counting in your head, it is not crucial that you only gargle for sixty seconds, but you should not continue to swish it around after ninety seconds -- it’s already done its job at this point, and swishing any longer would just be showing off. 

Benefits of Hydrogen Peroxide

There are plenty of upsides to using hydrogen peroxide -- that is why so many types of mouthwash use it as a main ingredient. It has a range of benefits from helping you out if your teeth are in pain and you are waiting to go to the dentist, to preventing your teeth from developing yellow or brown stains. 

Soothe Your Throat

Diluted hydrogen peroxide is a great cleaner all around, either in your mouth or around your home. 

The reason it is so effective is that hydrogen peroxide is antibacterial. 

It helps get rid of the bacteria in your mouth and in your home. If you have any kind of throat infection caused by bacteria, you might be able to soothe it by gargling with hydrogen peroxide. 

Even though you spit it out (again, do not swallow it!), some of it stays in your mouth and mixes with your saliva. It can also help if you have a cold and feel all stuffed up because it helps loosen things up. 

Keep Your  Pearly Whites Bright

Lots of teeth whitening products make good use of hydrogen peroxide to keep your smile looking bright. 

If you continue to swish with Sueprsmile’s Whitening Pre-Rinse, your pearly whites will look a whole lot whiter in just 30 days.

Pretty soon, your smile will be so brightly beautiful, you won’t be able to stop smiling. Let's just say that 100% of clinical participants saw immediate results for people who use hydrogen peroxide mouthwash, and 100% of them received immediate compliments, too.

Now, it is important to think about the percentage of hydrogen peroxide in your mouthwash. Although there are some mouthwashes with smaller percentages, like just 1 or 2%, you should use a slightly higher percentage if you want to see a noticeable difference in your teeth. Using 3.5% is the minimum usually considered for a mouthwash that will work to whiten your teeth by reducing existing stains.

Here at Supersmile, we believe that everyone deserves to have a beautiful, healthy smile. We have been offering products to help people with holistic smile health for over 40 years. 

Our Oral Rinse Mouthwash freshens breath, eliminates odor-causing bacteria, inhibits plaque, and provide long-lasting germicidal protection, all without the sting, burn, and artificial junk found in traditional mouthwashes. If you do not want to have to remember to rinse your mouth in the evening or morning after brushing your teeth, you can also take our Single-Dose Powdered Mouth Rinse with you, so you can whiten your teeth and freshen your breath on-the-go. Like with other kinds of mouthwash, you can swish this. 

All you have to do is add water, swish, spit, and go. You can even bring this TSA-approved mouthwash on the plane to boldly go where no mouthwash has gone before!

Supersmile also offers a Whitening Pre-Rinse, the only mouthwash on the market that preps teeth specifically for the whitening process. For the bright smile of your dreams, add our Professional Activating Rods to your routine as well. Our whitening system has hydrogen peroxide to target stubborn extrinsic stains paired with our proprietary ingredient Calprox, which is an encapsulated form of calcium peroxide, to prepare the tooth enamel for premium results without sensitivity. 

Unswell Swollen Gums

If you have swollen or bleeding gums, it’s probably a sign of mild to moderate gingivitis. That sounds scary, but it just means that you have not been cleaning your teeth completely, and some of the plaque and bacteria around your gum line may have become trapped which can lead to gum infection. 

If this occurs, you should consult with a dentist about possible solutions. These options will likely include flossing more often, switching the type of toothbrush you use, or adding mouthwash with hydrogen peroxide to your daily oral regimen to kill bacteria and germs lurking below the gumline.

If you chose to use a hydrogen peroxide mouthwash in the morning or evening, you should gargle after you have finished flossing and brushing your teeth. Make sure that you swish it over all of your teeth, including the very front. That way, it can get everything that the floss and toothbrush did not reach for a full clean. 

Precautions To Remember

We cannot stress this enough: try to avoid actually swallowing anything containing hydrogen peroxide. Accidentally swallowing a little once in a while likely won’t result in much more than a stomach ache, but do your best to swish and spit.

Additionally, while it might be tempting to make your own hydrogen peroxide mouthwash, it’s a lot easier and much more effective to just buy one that not only has hydrogen peroxide, but additional mouth-happy ingredients to help keep your teeth and gums clean and healthy. Our Whitening Pre-Rinse has been recommended by dentists, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, to keep their patients’ mouths healthy. It prevents plaque that can lead to gingivitis and other serious health conditions while leaving you with fresher breath and whiter teeth.  

In Summary

A mouthwash with hydrogen peroxide is extremely healthy and a great way to brighten your smile. Gargling mouthwash does not just help whiten your teeth, it also kills some of the odor-causing bacteria in your mouth that get trapped around your gum line and on the back of your tongue. 

Use a hydrogen peroxide mouthwash, to keep your breath smelling fresh and clean, your mouth healthy and your smile enviably bright!

Sources:

https://www.healthline.com/health/gargling-hydrogen-peroxide

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1601-5037.2010.00492.x

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4534617/