How To Prevent Bad Breath

The following are bad breath home remedies.

These natural remedies are readily available from ingredients found in the kitchen, garden or from your local supermarket. Some of these bad breath home remedies have been around for centuries and have no doubt proved their effectiveness for countless people.

They are not guaranteed to work for you, but they might be worth a try. I have tried a couple of them myself, and while the taste of some of them leaves something to be desired, the home remedies have been useful to for me.

Here are the bad breath home remedies.

1. Parsley. If you eat out at a restaurant you have probably been served parsley as a garnish with some of your spicy meals. Chewing parsley is difficult at the best of times and you need good teeth and stamina to get through it. But, it is a natural breath sweetener. If you can recall chewing parsley after eating spicy food, you will know the difference it makes to the breath afterwards. I know this remedy works for me.

If you don’t fancy chewing parsley, try soaking it in boiling water for at least five minutes. Then you can either drink the water it was boiled in or use it to rinse out your mouth.

2. Chewing the unripe green parts of guava is good for getting rid of bad breath quickly.

3. I am a great believer in the yoga deep breathing exercise as an aid to cleansing the breath. It calms me down and makes me feel good as well.

4. Thyme makes a good mouthwash. Simply steep some of it in hot water for a few minutes, then add a couple of drops of eucalyptus oil and use as a mouthwash whenever you want. It makes the mouth feel fresh afterwards.

5. The juice of a fresh lemon, squeezed and taken as a drink, twice a day. Lemon is a good household cleanser too. It is good for de scaling kettles, for instance. If it tastes too bitter for you, try adding a sweetener, such as honey.

6. Chewing cardamom pods is another remedy to try. Cardamom does not work totally for me but it does take away the worst of the smell.

7. Drink a glass of water. This stops the mouth getting dry, and therefore smelling.

8. Fenugreek tea is a good home remedy for bad breath.

9. Take 5 to 10 drops of tea tree oil and add to a glass of warm water. Use as a mouthwash or gargle, once or twice daily.

10. Proper dental hygiene, which means cleaning and flossing the teeth after eating.

11. Half a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar mixed in a glass of water, and use as a gargle.

12. Buy yourself a tongue scraper, if you don’t already have one. It is definitely the best purchase I have made recently.

13. Chew a sprig of mint. Mint is easy to grow in the garden as well. Just set it and forget it. I personally like the taste of this herb. If you find it too strong, you can soak some in water and use as a mouthwash. It also makes a refreshing drink, mixed with ice cubes in a jug, on a hot sunny day.

By all means try these bad breath home remedies, at your own risk.

The chances are that if you are fond of eating garlic in your food, you have garlic bad breath and are looking for a quick fix for the problem.

Garlic makes the breath smell for obvious reasons. For example, curries of all kinds are a popular

convenience food for many, and they are typically laced with garlic as part of their ingredients. Eating a curry without garlic is almost unthinkable. After eating the curry, the breath smells, and this is called garlic bad breath.

So, what can be done about the problem?

Try drinking a glass of water after eating the curry, and this will help relieve the dry mouth feeling which comes after eating spicy foods. A dry mouth usually has a smelly breath along with it. The two usually go together. But often getting rid of the smell is not that easy, because of where it originates from.

There are herbs you can eat with the meal, such as fresh parsley, but they can be difficult to chew, and parsley is frequently served with curries. Cardamom is also used to help alleviate the problem. But for me, it only masks the odour and does not take it away completely.

The reason the smell of garlic is difficult to get rid of is because once it is digested, its oils are released into the bloodstream and circulated to the lungs where the smell is exhaled for many hours after it has been consumed.

Time alone will get rid of it, and methods of speeding up the process are not totally effective. Mouthwashes and eating something minty will help to alleviate the worst of the smell but that is all they will do.

The best way of coping with garlic bad breath is to have the same meal yourself. It is only people who have not eaten garlic with their food that can smell it on the breath of those who have.

[photo by Sebastian Mary]

In this article I want to share with you my seven tips for preventing bad breath.

This is what I do, and it might help you as well. When I wake up each day, the one thing I most to try and avoid is a morning bad breath. This means that unless I take some simple steps to avoid bad breath my breath is likely to smell when I first wake up in the morning.

Morning bad breath is when I have a dry mouth and there is very little saliva present. When this happens, the first thing I do is have a drink of water. That makes me feel better as well. Well all know drinking plenty of water is healthy, which is another good reason for drinking it.

When I go to the bathroom I stick my tongue out in front of the mirror, because I want to check that it looks a healthy pinky colour. If it does not, and my mouth still feels overly dry, I brush my tongue and that gets rid of the dirty colour and my breath feels a lot fresher afterwards. If you have never used a tongue cleaner before, as I had not, the first time you use one your tongue feels like new. No exaggeration.

When I am out and about, I do not want to see people trying to dodge out of my way when I talk to them, because my breath smells. That is just too embarrassing, both for me and for the person I am talking to. On a personal note, preventing bad breath is important in my struggle to keep my breath smelling fresh each day.

All I need to do is put myself in the other persons place, and I know I would not like too stand close to someone who’s breath stinks. But, as we all know, it does happen.

Here are my 7 tips for preventing bad breath.

1. I clean my teeth at least twice every day, or after mealtimes. Then I clean my tongue, which in my opinion is the most important thing I do in my daily fight to keep my breath smelling sweet.

2. I floss my teeth. By removing those stubborn particles of food lodged between the teeth, I am preventing the build up of bacteria in my mouth.

3. I use a tongue scraper. I only started using one of these recently. Before then I did not scrape my tongue at all. Until you use a tongue scraper, you will never experience that wonderful fresh feeling it leaves on your tongue afterwards.

4. Do not smoke. Chewing or smoking tobacco makes the breath smell foul.

5. I try and drink enough water during the day so my mouth never feels too dry. A dry breath usually indicates a smelly one.

6. I like to eat onion and garlic, in moderation. I know these foods cause bad breath, but I chew a little parsley after eating garlic. I think it helps, but you never know for sure if others can still smell your breath.

7. I practice a variation of the yoga technique called the cleansing breath, where I breathe out for as long as possible after breathing in. I believe it helps in bad breath prevention. Doing this gives me a mental lift as well, which is useful if you have been using your brain a lot recently.

I hope you have found these seven tips for preventing bad breath helpful, and that perhaps you can use some of them yourself.

Disclaimer, try these at your own risk.

This article shows how to prevent bad breath naturally.

Few people would disagree that bad breath is an unpleasant experience for those that are standing too close to someone with stinky breath.

I have often found myself in situations where the smell coming from someone else’s breath has been overpowering, and so too has the urge for me to get away as fast as possible from that person. When you think about that action alone though, the running away from someone who might not know what the problem is, that really is not a nice thing to do.

Turning to foods which can cause bad breath, examples of these are curry and garlic. Likewise, smoking and alcohol both give off a stinky odour to those close around them. The breath can smell after drinking a cup of coffee as well. It seems there are lots of foods and beverages which can cause the problem.

Here is how to prevent bad breath naturally.

1. Proper dental care. This means cleaning and flossing the teeth regularly, especially after meals. Brushing and cleaning the teethe at least twice a day is the recommendation. And, do not forget to clean the tongue as well, because bacteria can build up on the tongue resulting in a smell coming from it. Food particles left in the mouth after brushing will eventually smell if not removed.

2. Use dental floss to get at those hard to reach crevices between the teeth, where food particles can become difficult to dislodge using an ordinary toothbrush. It takes time to floss properly after brushing, but it is time well spent. It keeps your teeth healthier as well.

3. Scrape the tongue with a tongue scraper, or you can use a toothbrush. Even using a small blunt edged spoon upside down along the surface of the tongue works just as well. Food particles and plaque that are left on the tongue will eventually smell.

4. Smoking makes the breath smell.

5. When your mouth feels extra dry the chances are your breath smells as well. The best thing to do if you have a dry mouth is to drink a glass of water.

6. If you are partial to eating garlic and onions, your breath will smell after eating them. The oils in these foods are taken to the lungs and expelled by the breath. Taking a little parsley with these foods is said to help mask the smell.

7. Some medical conditions can cause bad breath and if you are not sure if this is the cause of your bad breath, it is best to consult your doctor.

I hope you have found these suggestions on how to prevent bad breath naturally, useful.

Disclaimer, try these remedies at your own risk.

Do you know that dry mouth feeling when you first wake up in the morning?

Before you realize what is happening there is a problem with your breath. How do you know?

Because your, partner, husband, wife, or spouse turns their head away from you in disgust as they catch a whiff of your stinky breath coming in their direction. That’s when the penny drops. That’s the moment you realize there is a problem with your breath.

If it is any comfort to you, there are many other people, just like you, who suffer from morning bad breath. But it is not sympathy you are after, so much as a bad breath cure, I suspect.

So what steps can you take to stop it happening? Even if you clean your teeth at night before you go to bed this alone does not stop the problem. Toothpaste by itself does not prevent bad breath either. What I find does help me is brushing, or, scraping my tongue. You can brush the tongue with an ordinary toothbrush, or use one of those special tongue scrapers.

They are quick and easy to use. And, more important, they are effective. The tongue collects particles of food which, if left, cause the breath to smell. A tongue scraper will quickly get rid of that horrible looking brown colour on the tongue, and it will look pink and healthy afterwards. The great thing is, it takes me less than a minute to clean my tongue in this way.

If you do not have a spare toothbrush to do the job, you can use or an ordinary spoon, turned upside down, and rubbed gently along the surface of the tongue.

Always use good dental hygiene if you want to avoid morning bad breath, and keep your breath smelling fresh all through the day.

Preventing bad breath is largely down to altering your eating habits. If you habitually eat spicy foods containing onion and garlic you can expect to have bad smelling breath. The solution then, if you want to stop bad breath, is to avoid or reduce these foods where possible.

Cultivate the habit of eating parsley with your food because it cleanses the breath. How much of it you choose to eat is up to you, but a mouthful or so works for me. The only problem with this solution is you have to buy it fresh and keep it fresh because it does not stay fresh for long.

Drinking plenty of water will ensure your mouth does not become too dry and thereby cause your breath to smell. The water also helps to remove loose particles of food which tend to lodge between the teeth after eating. If they stay there, they will cause the breath to smell.

Eating a balanced diet with fresh vegetables helps keep the tongue clean of mucous and so keeps it from causing bad breath.

Bad breath can be socially embarrassing for all of us.

The trouble is, we do not always know when our breath smells. Other people do though and polite society means they are not going to tell us when it smells, unless they know us well enough to mention it.

Even when you clean your teeth after drinking a cup of tea, it does not seem to take the smell away completely which means people can still smell your breath.

When we smell bad breath on other people we automatically try and shy away from that person, as the smell can be so awful.

I hope these tips help stop your bad breath.