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Colgate 360 Actiflex Review

Approximately 74% of all Christmas stockings contain a stick of deodorant, toothpaste, floss and a toothbrush. OK, well that number may not be accurate, however I'm sure that most of us got a toothbrush for Christmas so I'm wondering, which toothbrush dominated Christmas stockings of 2009?

This year Santa stuffed a Colgate 360 Actiflex toothbrush in my stocking.  Boy was I excited. :|  Seriously though, I love getting brand new toothbrushes.  Every Christmas eve I daydream of how the toothbrush has evolved since last Christmas because you can only make limited changes to a toothbrush's design.

I was hoping that this years model had some sort of bluetooth capabilities such as synchronization with your iphone.  Imagine Jay-Z 's freshest track bompin' away as you clean 5 hour old spinach from between your lateral incisor and left canine?  The benefits are 2 fold.  You would brush longer than 20 seconds plus you could really bang out a nice lil cardio session.

Come on, if we've invented roll-on butter, then why can't we have bluetooth toothbrushes?

I took my new Colgate 360 Actiflex for a test brush yesterday and I have to say say that I'm not really that impressed.  The extremely thin neck worries me because I'm an aggressive brusher.  What happens if the neck splits and shoots down my gullet?  It also feels like there are not enough bristles which are spaced quite far from one another.  I've seen cat toothbrushes with more bristles.  We're not brushing lightbulbs people, give me some bloody bristles!!!

I don't get this gimmick that the bristles swivel around your teeth to get the junk trapped between your teeth.  If you're supposed to floss anyhow, then what's the point?  Is this toothbrush designed for those busy business types who don't have time to floss?  Does this product discourage us from flossing?  Dentists, you should be pissed.

The website says that the Colgate 360 Actiflex reduces oral malodor over three times better than the leading manual and battery powered toothbrushes to provide up to 10 hours of longer-lasting fresher breath.    That's impressive !  (PS don't google oral malodor) I think the evolution in toothbrushes is at the back side of this tooth brush.  The back feels like you're licking one of those fat green caterpillars .  It feels weird when it rubs up against my inner cheek. I suppose this scrapes floating plaque off of your cheek?

So now I have to be concerned with having a clean inner cheek?  Have there been tv advertisements discussing this health issue?  Have I missed something?   OH GOD...I haven't been brushing my inner cheeks.

It appears that there are few people talking about this toothbrush on Twitter, probably because there is no bluetooth iphone synch capabilities. I must admit though, the Colgate Actiflex 360 website is pretty slick.  I'm not a fan of Colgate asserting that we need to be concerned about brushing the bacteria off of our cheek since 80% of oral bacteria does not exist on the teeth.  I suppose if you're one of those "tongue brusher types" you will absolutely fall in love with the rubber tongue file...until it rips open all of your oral herpies...er...cankers.

Overall, it's a toothbrush.  It does what it's supposed to do, however I may stick with my Oral B toothbrush and use the Colgate 360 Actiflex when travelling.

Chaf

PS, this commercial is hilarious.

Ridiculous Infomercial for the Colgate Wisp - The top video clips of the week are here

I will also start posting iphone shots of random discarded coffee cups.  


No I'm not crazy.









I may also post some of my photos once in a while.

Back at it

OK, so I've had writers block for about a year now.  I think this began when I started working in the social media world...how ironic.  I suffer from TMI syndrome as most of us do.  So many things to read during the day: personal emails, tweets,work emails,tweets, blogs,tweets, digg articles,  and don't forget...tweets. Then there are: huffingtonpost comments to leave, facebook comments to leave, tweets, del.icio.us bookmarks ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHH!   

Perhaps I've been afraid to be scrutinized by my peers. Perhaps I'm just lazy. Or perhaps I just had nothing exciting to say. Well I've decided to start blogging again.  I'm sure this blog will be as random as my last 2  (http://chafsdigitalbrain.blogspot.com/ and http://blogs.ci-fi.net/chaf ) however there's a twist.  I've decided to review as many purchased products as possible.  I'm not much of a consumer whore to be honest, so I will even blog about everyday products like toothbrushes and toiletbowl cleaner.  I won't blog about EVERYTHING I buy however I will do my best to keep it realz.

Expect the following:  product reviews, podcast postings, political rants, kitten videos, silly and dark humor, questions, polls, surveys, and opinions.

This experiment is to find out who's really listening out there.

You know who you are.

Chaf