State of Toothpaste Tablets 2026: what 12 brands actually disclose

Updated October 12, 2026 · Published October 5, 2026 · Published by ENML, which makes one of the twelve products in this audit. We record what each brand publishes; we tested nothing.

Short version: most toothpaste tablets tell you less than you would expect. Of 8 hydroxyapatite tablets, 6 publish how much hydroxyapatite is in them and 2 do not. Only 2 of 12 brands publish an abrasivity (RDA) score. One brand states micro-hydroxyapatite; seven state nano. List prices run from about 10 cents to about 42 cents a tablet, which is roughly $6 to $25 a month at twice-daily brushing, and the most expensive one is ours.

What this is, and what it is not

This is a disclosure audit. On October 5, 2026 we opened each brand's own product or ingredients page and wrote down what is printed there. Nothing was lab-tested, nothing is ranked on performance, and a blank cell means the brand does not publish that figure, not that the figure is bad. 11 of the 12 rows come from brand pages. Where a field came from a retailer listing instead, there is a numbered note under the table saying so.

We make one of these products, so read the ENML row with that in mind. It is held to the same rule as the rest: only what is on the product page counts.

The table

Brand and product	Hydroxyapatite	Dose published	Fluoride	Ingredients	RDA published	Pack and list price	Per tablet	Days per pack (2/day)	Per month (2/day)	Packaging
ENML Toothpaste Tablets (Mint)	Micro-hydroxyapatite	10%	No	15	37	60 for $24.99	42¢	30	$24.99	Jar; plastic-free refill pouches
NOBS (Biöm) NOBS Toothpaste Tablets	Nano-hydroxyapatite	5%	No	13	21.38	186 for $40	22¢	93	$12.90	Glass jar
Kaylaan Non-Fluoride Mint Toothpaste Tablets	Nano-hydroxyapatite	10%	No	11	No	90 for $15.00	17¢	45	$10.00	Recycled-aluminum tin; compostable refill pouch
Huppy ^[1] Toothpaste Tablets (Peppermint)	Nano-hydroxyapatite	10%	No	18	No	$49.99 (3-month supply; tablet count not stated on the product page)	n/a	n/a	n/a	Reusable tin; compostable refills
Canary Clean Co. Peppermint Toothpaste Tablets	Nano-hydroxyapatite	5%	No	13	No	126 for $15.00	12¢	63	$7.14	Reusable glass jar; compostable refill pouches
Tidalove Cool Mint Fluoride-Free Toothpaste Tablets	Nano-hydroxyapatite (rod-shaped, per brand)	5%	No	15	No	62 for $12.00	19¢	31	$11.61	Refill pouch; reusable tin
Bite Fluoride-Free Toothpaste Bits (Mint)	Nano-hydroxyapatite	Not published	No	11	No	248 for $32.00	13¢	124	$7.74	Glass jar with metal lid
The Humble Co. Toothpaste Tablets without Fluoride	Nano-hydroxyapatite	Not published	No	19	No	$8.99 (tablet count not stated on the product page)	n/a	n/a	n/a	Small lift-top container (material not stated)
Georganics Mineral Toothtablets (Spearmint)	None	n/a	No	9	No	120 for £9.90	8p	60	£4.95	Glass bottle, aluminium lid, card box
PÄRLA ^[2] Original 62 Toothpaste Tabs	None listed	n/a	Yes, 1,450 ppm	19	No	62 for £10.00	16p	31	£9.68	Glass jar; compostable refill pouch
DENTTABS ^[3] Toothpaste Tablets with Fluoride (Stevia-Mint)	None	n/a	Yes, 1,450 ppm	12	No	125 for £5.41	4p	63	£2.60	Compostable pouch
Unpaste ^[4] Fluoride-Free Tooth Tabs (Mint)	Unresolved: retailer listings disagree	Unresolved	No	Unresolved	No	125 for $12.99	10¢	63	$6.24	Compostable pouch

Prices are one-time list prices as displayed on the audit date, in the currency the brand sells in; they change. "Per tablet" is list price divided by tablet count, shown only where the brand publishes both. "Days per pack" and "Per month" assume two tablets a day (60 a month); subscriptions and multi-packs lower every brand's number and are not shown.

Huppy. The starter-tin page lists the ingredient as "Hydroxyapatite" at 10% without a particle size; Huppy's own refill page describes the same formula as nano-hydroxyapatite. Retailer listings seen in September showed both 5% and 10%; the brand page says 10%.
PÄRLA. Fluoride level, count, price and packaging are from the brand page. The brand page names "key ingredients" only, so the full ingredient list and count come from a retailer listing recorded in September and were not re-confirmed on the brand site.
DENTTABS. Ingredients and fluoride level are from the brand ingredients page. Tablet count, price, packaging and the RDA band are from a UK retailer listing (ecco-verde.co.uk).
Unpaste. We could not find a brand-run product page: unpaste.com redirected to a domain-parking page on 2026-10-05. Two retailer listings publish different formulas: one (recorded 2026-09-07) lists a 10-ingredient cellulose and bicarbonate formula with no hydroxyapatite; another (read 2026-10-05) lists 15 ingredients including "Hydroxyapatite (nano)". We report neither as the current formula.

What stands out

1. Six brands publish a hydroxyapatite percentage. Two do not.

Three brands state 10%: ENML (micro-hydroxyapatite), Kaylaan and Huppy (both nano). Three state 5%: NOBS, Canary Clean Co. and Tidalove. Bite and The Humble Co. list nano-hydroxyapatite in their ingredients without a figure. A percentage does not tell you how a product performs, but it is the one number that lets a shopper compare two hydroxyapatite tablets on anything other than marketing, and a quarter of the hydroxyapatite tablets here leave it out.

2. Almost nobody publishes abrasivity.

RDA (relative dentin abrasivity) is the standard lab measure of how abrasive a toothpaste is. Only NOBS (21.38) and ENML (37) put a specific figure on their own site. Both sit in the low range, and NOBS's is the lower of the two. For the other ten products we found no brand-published number.

3. Micro versus nano is a labelling fact, and it is not always easy to find.

Seven brands state nano-hydroxyapatite and one, ENML, states micro. Both are permitted: EU rules in force since 2025 allow nano-hydroxyapatite in toothpaste under set concentration and particle-shape conditions, following review by the European Commission's Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety. The particle size is still worth being able to find, and it is not always on the page you would look at first. Huppy's main product page lists the ingredient simply as "Hydroxyapatite"; the word "nano" appears on its refill page. Our micro-versus-nano guide covers what the difference does and does not mean.

4. "SLS-free" is universal. Read the next word carefully.

None of the twelve lists sodium lauryl sulfate. NOBS and Huppy list sodium lauryl sulfoacetate (SLSA), which is a different ingredient despite the similar name. That is not a criticism; it is the kind of thing an ingredient list answers in ten seconds and a front-of-pack claim does not.

5. Ingredient lists run from 9 to 19.

Georganics has the shortest list at 9. Kaylaan and Bite list 11, DENTTABS 12, NOBS and Canary Clean Co. 13, ENML and Tidalove 15, Huppy 18, and The Humble Co. and PÄRLA 19. A shorter list is not automatically a better one, but it is a fact people ask about, and ENML sits in the middle of the range, not at the short end.

6. What a month actually costs, and how that compares with a tube.

Two tablets a day is 60 a month. At one-time list prices, the US brands that publish a count and a price work out to Unpaste $6.24, Canary Clean Co. $7.14, Bite $7.74, Kaylaan $10.00, Tidalove $11.61, NOBS (Biöm) $12.90, ENML $24.99 a month. The gap between the cheapest and the most expensive is about four to one, and ENML's $24.99 jar is the top of it. For scale, a 4.6 oz tube of paste holds about 130 g; at the pea-sized amount dentists recommend (roughly 0.25 g) that is around 500 brushings, so a $5 tube costs about a cent a brush, or up to about four cents with a full strip. Every tablet here costs more per brush than that, by a factor of five to forty. The premium pays for the format (a pre-measured solid, no tube, nothing to leak, no liquid rules when flying) and, for most of these brands, a fluoride-free hydroxyapatite formula; it does not buy more cleaning per brush. Subscriptions and larger packs lower every brand's number. We show list prices only because we have not read the other brands' subscription prices; ENML's own is $21.24 a jar monthly on enml.com.

7. One brand could not be pinned down at all.

We could not find a brand-run product page for Unpaste, and two retailers list two different formulas for its fluoride-free tablets, one with nano-hydroxyapatite and one without. We have left those cells unresolved instead of picking one.

Where ENML comes out behind

Price. At 42 cents a tablet at list price, ENML is the most expensive product in this audit, roughly double NOBS and about three times Bite or Canary Clean Co. Per month at twice-daily brushing that is $24.99 against about $13 for NOBS and $7 to $8 for Bite or Canary Clean Co.

Abrasivity. ENML's published RDA of 37 is low, but NOBS's 21.38 is lower.

Ingredient count. Fifteen ingredients puts ENML mid-table. Georganics, Kaylaan, Bite, DENTTABS, NOBS and Canary Clean Co. all have shorter lists.

No fluoride option. If you or your dentist want fluoride, at least five brands here sell a fluoride tablet and ENML does not.

Where it comes out ahead on disclosure: ENML is one of two brands that publish both a hydroxyapatite percentage and an RDA figure (NOBS is the other), and the only one in the set that states micro-hydroxyapatite.

How to use this if you are choosing a tablet

Want the dose in writing? ENML, Kaylaan, Huppy (10%); NOBS, Canary Clean Co., Tidalove (5%).
Want a published abrasivity score? NOBS or ENML.
Want fluoride? PÄRLA, DENTTABS, or the fluoride versions from Kaylaan, Tidalove and Bite.
Want the lowest list price per tablet in the US? Unpaste, Canary Clean Co. or Bite (about $6 to $8 a month).
Want micro- rather than nano-hydroxyapatite? ENML is the only one here that states it.
Want the shortest ingredient list? Georganics.

Common questions

Which toothpaste tablets publish their hydroxyapatite percentage?

Of the 8 hydroxyapatite tablets we audited, 6 state a percentage on their own product page: ENML (10%, micro-hydroxyapatite), Kaylaan (10%, nano), Huppy (10%, nano), NOBS (5%, nano), Canary Clean Co. (5%, nano) and Tidalove (5%, nano). Bite and The Humble Co. list nano-hydroxyapatite as an ingredient but do not publish how much.

Which toothpaste tablets use micro-hydroxyapatite instead of nano?

In this set, only ENML states micro-hydroxyapatite. NOBS, Kaylaan, Huppy, Canary Clean Co., Tidalove, Bite and The Humble Co. all state nano-hydroxyapatite somewhere on their own sites. Both forms are permitted in toothpaste; the difference is particle size and how the ingredient is classified and labelled, not whether it is allowed.

Which toothpaste tablet brands publish an RDA (abrasivity) score?

Two of the twelve publish a specific RDA figure on their own site: NOBS (21.38) and ENML (37). Both are in the low-abrasivity range. A UK retailer lists DENTTABS in a band of 20 to 40, but we did not find a figure on the DENTTABS ingredients page. The other nine publish no RDA at all.

Do any toothpaste tablets contain fluoride?

Yes. Two of the twelve products we audited are fluoride tablets, PÄRLA and DENTTABS, both at 1,450 ppm. Several brands sell both kinds: Kaylaan (1,000 ppm sodium fluoride), Tidalove (1,450 ppm, combined with nano-hydroxyapatite), Bite, DENTTABS and Unpaste all offer a fluoride and a fluoride-free version. ENML is fluoride-free only.

What do toothpaste tablets cost per tablet?

At list price, the US brands that publish both a tablet count and a price range from about 10 cents to about 42 cents a tablet: Unpaste 10¢, Canary Clean Co. 12¢, Bite 13¢, Kaylaan 17¢, Tidalove 19¢, NOBS 22¢ and ENML 42¢. Larger packs and subscriptions lower the number for most brands, so compare like for like. ENML is the most expensive per tablet in this set.

How much do toothpaste tablets cost per month?

Brushing twice a day uses 60 tablets a month. At one-time list prices, the US brands that publish a count and a price work out to: Unpaste $6.24, Canary Clean Co. $7.14, Bite $7.74, Kaylaan $10.00, Tidalove $11.61, NOBS (Biöm) $12.90, ENML $24.99. So a month of tablets costs between about $6 and $25 at list price, and ENML's $24.99 jar is exactly one month. Subscriptions and larger packs bring every brand's number down; ENML's own monthly subscription is $21.24 a jar on enml.com, and we have not read the other brands' subscription prices, so the table shows list prices only.

Are toothpaste tablets worth it compared with a $5 tube of fluoride toothpaste?

On cost alone, no: a 4.6 oz tube holds roughly 130 g of paste, and at the pea-sized amount dentists recommend (about 0.25 g) that is around 500 brushings, so a $5 tube costs about 1 cent a brush, or up to about 4 cents if you use a full strip. Tablets in this audit cost 10 to 42 cents a brush, five to forty times more. What the premium buys is a different product, not a cheaper one: a pre-measured solid with no tube, no water, no liquid rules for flying, and, for most brands here, a fluoride-free hydroxyapatite formula. Whether that is worth it depends on which of those you care about. If cavity prevention is the only question, fluoride toothpaste has the largest body of evidence and is the cheaper option, and two brands in this audit sell fluoride tablets if you want the format with the ingredient.

How was this audit done, and can a brand correct it?

We read each brand's own product or ingredients page on October 5, 2026 and recorded only what is printed there: ingredient list, hydroxyapatite type and percentage, fluoride level, RDA, tablet count, list price and packaging. We did no lab testing and make no performance claims. 11 of 12 rows come from brand pages; anything taken from a retailer listing is footnoted. Brands can send corrections with a link to the published source to info@enml.com and we will update the table and say so.

Sources

Each row was read from the page linked here on the audit date.

A note on the research referenced on this page

The studies referenced here examine hydroxyapatite as an ingredient and are provided as publicly available scientific literature for general information — they are not claims about ENML products. ENML products are cosmetics: they clean and polish teeth and freshen breath, and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. For questions about your oral health, talk to your dentist.

Brand names are used only to identify the products discussed. ENML is not affiliated with any other brand named here. Not yet in the audit, and on the list for the next edition: Chewpaste, etee, quip tablets, Hello, Weldental, Crush & Brush (Nelson Naturals), SuperBee Dentos, Pearlies. Corrections with a link to a published source: info@enml.com.

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