Bad Breath Halitosis Forum

Feedback is the only way to really know what is working.
If you have parents, a lover, a best friend, ask them to help you on the following test.
Choose 7 mouth rinses, and tell your partner that they're going to help you choose the best-smelling mouth rinse, after 7 days of feedback.

I just completed my 1 week feedback test with my gf.

I chose the following ingredients, which are both anti-odour and non-staining (so, nothing with chlorine): baking soda, water and essential oils.

I gargled, tongue-brushed and scraped with baking-soda-water mix.
I teeth-brushed with baking-soda water mix (sometimes with coconut oil).
Each night, I put in 1 drop of different smelling essential oils into water (sometimes with hydrogen peroxide), then gargled and rinsed for a minute.
Then, after a few minutes, each night, asked my 'best mouth-rinse selector' for feedback.

After 7 days, the winner emerged:
1 drop of peppermint oil in water.

The moral of this story is that you have to get feedback to know what's working.
Who else is going to undertake the challenge of finding a 'best mouth-rinse selector' and undergo the 1 week feedback test?

Most of us don't have reliable feedback. Everyone is too polite to tell us. We don't even know if the things we try make our BB slightly better or worse. This is what makes our problem so hard to tackle.

Where are you from?

You're absolutely right when you say that people are too polite and will not give you reliable feedback.
But with this test, you're just asking them which rinse smells the best.
You don't have to do the exact ingredients which I have used above, just make a selection of 7 different rinses and talk to your GF/BF/Mom/Dad/someone who you live with and give them the pleasure of selecting which smell they like the best. Just tell that every night at bedtime, they're going to help you select. You've got to ask, you have no option, as the alternative is living with uncertainty what is working for you, and that's the wrong way to go.
I'm from the UK. You can't just try different options and randomly talk to people to look at their reactions. Do the test.

Sam2 wrote:You're absolutely right when you say that people are too polite and will not give you reliable feedback.
But with this test, you're just asking them which rinse smells the best.
You don't have to do the exact ingredients which I have used above, just make a selection of 7 different rinses and talk to your GF/BF/Mom/Dad/someone who you live with and give them the pleasure of selecting which smell they like the best. Just tell that every night at bedtime, they're going to help you select. You've got to ask, you have no option, as the alternative is living with uncertainty what is working for you, and that's the wrong way to go.
I'm from the UK. You can't just try different options and randomly talk to people to look at their reactions. Do the test.

Hey mate, did you get my last message? Are you still up for meeting up for feedback in the UK?

I live outside the U.K. but I'd definitely meet up for feedback exchange when I'm back.
Still travelling though, without fixed date of return.
Mallory organises some meets in London sometime, if I'm ever around, would love to make one of those too.

On another matter, it astounds me that with so many people on the forum and so many people complaining, that people don't systematically find someone to give them feedback for 1 week to directly inform what is working and what does not...