You can suffer from bad breath for various reasons despite giving your teeth a good brush. Sometimes your breath can smell due to the foods you eat like onions or garlic. If you suffer from bad breath it is always good to have a good mouth wash on hand. However you don’t need to opt for a chemical based product you can actually make an all natural mouth wash at home using just one single ingredient. Let’s have a look at what you need to do!
Eugenol is a chemical compound found in cloves that allows this natural ingredient to get rid of bad breath. It also means that cloves are a good form of antiseptic and anesthetic. This is why you can sometimes chew on cloves to reduce toothache.
What you need:
- 3 cloves
- 250 ml of water
Steps:
1) Pour the water into a pan and then heat it up on a medium heat.
2) Add you cloves.
3) Leave the cloves to infuse for 20 minutes.
4) Remove the cloves and the mixture is ready!
If you don’t have time to prepare this mixture during the day you can opt for the simple and quicker method… all you need to do is chew on a clove!
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