Dainty but durable, elegant yet affordable — this was Washington Sheffield’s vision for toothpaste in a tube, first conceived in the 1870s out of his New London dental practice. From his Broad Street ...

Old wives’ tales, folk knowledge, common sayings, and even cliches and idioms are often taken as givens since they form an often unnoticed part of our vocabulary and culture. There’s so many examples ...

Now we're all checking our toothpaste tubes. As if conspiracy theories could get any more wild, now there's one involving the different kinds of toothpaste that we use. The theory, which was discussed ...

Toothpaste tubes typically have color-coded bars, which some people believe point to their ingredients, such as green indicating all-natural toothpaste. However, this is entirely false, with the bars ...