I bought a new teeth brush - this time from the EU!

I’ll buy one when my oral b 9000 dies but it’s 8 years old and still rattles my teeth. It can outlive me probably.

- oof.
  Proud of ya son!

Suri is a UK company making sustainable electric toothbrushes. They are also a B Certified Corporation.
https://www.trysuri.com/
- 18€ for 3 heads? No thanks… why are they so expensive?
- They do some false marketing though: https://www.ifixit.com/News/109270/you-cant-even-replace-the-battery-in-the-green-suri-toothbrush
- Wouldn't recommend. I had one, it gave up after a few months. They replaced it, and that did the same.
  This is a sustainable toothbrush https://smol.com/uk/stories/smol-bamboo-toothbrushes
  
  I have been using one for 9 months now, haven’t had any issues.
  A normal toothbrush doesn’t provide nearly the same level of cleaning.
- Being B corp certified doesn't mean shit. Nespresso is B corp certified. But I'll definitely check out those toothbrushes
- At the other end of the spectrum, Colgate sell battery powered brushes for kids with non-replaceable heads. When the head wears out you have to scrap the whole device. I wrote to Colgate (Palmolive) via their website and got a crappy canned response about how they are responsible and the environment is important to them blah blah blah.
  https://www.colgate.com/en-gb/products/toothbrush/colgate-kids-minions-extra-soft-for-0-3-years
  Edit: I know they're not European either. I just wanted to call them out for how unsustainable they are compared to some others.
  
  Great call out as that shit stinks
- sustainable electric toothbrushes
  I hate to be "that guy", but I noticed this on their website:
  Can I change the battery?Updated a year ago
  No. But we can.
  Thanks to our handle design, we can replace your battery once it reaches the end of its life.
  Completely unnecessary, wasteful, and a part of planned obsolescence.
  Even though I've owned a few Sonicare brushes, my current brush has been a $25 (Canadian) ARC toothbrush, that uses a single AAA battery.
  I only remember replacing the battery twice in the last few years (maybe once a year, then?). So the idea to make a brush with a built-in battery + a charger seems crazy. There is literally no advantage to having a built-in battery for a device like this, and plenty of downsides.
  
  Disposable batteries aren’t sustainable either.
  Comparing Suri to Phillips, you can at least have the battery changed, rather than throwing away the whole thing like with the Phillips.
  I agree it would be better if the Suri battery was user changeable, they claim there is water proofing that makes it hard to repair yourself.
  Looks like iFixit came out with the critique a few months back: https://www.ifixit.com/News/109270/you-cant-even-replace-the-battery-in-the-green-suri-toothbrush
  
  Is your Toothbrush ultrasonic? I had an old Oral-b from 15 years ago but i bought a new Philips Sonicare 5500. Ultrasonic toothbrushes are amazing, how could i not buy it sooner?! lol Much nicer feel and better teeth.
  
  I've had Oral B and Philips electric brushes and they were non-replaceable also.
- Looks good and a good price but what an awful website - pop ups, scrolling text, unstoppable videos… nobody wants that.

You make a good point!
Why is it called a tooth brush and not a teeth brush? We don't use it to only brush one tooth. It is for all the teeth!
And now i have thought about this too hard and written teeth too many times, that i am beginning to doub if teeth is a word or if i am spelling it wrong 🤦
- Maybe it was invented in Alabama.
  
  Hah!
- Interesting thought. I have a shoe brush, hairbrush, and lint brush.
- Hmm that is… true 🤔

Are you sure it's not made in China?
- Philips is known for selling their brand to Chinese companies, where except for the name the product has nothing to do with Philips. The best known example is probably the TVs made by TP Vision, which are sold under the Philips brand.
  However it seems like the Sonicare toothbrushes are still made by Philips themselves. Or at least still made by Sonicare which Philips acquired in 2000. They were traditionally made in Indonesia, but have been made in China for the most part these days.
  Oral-B would be a better option for European toothbrushes, they are made in both China and Germany. Although the ones made in Germany still use pre-production parts from China. But that's just par for the course these days, almost everything is made in China.
  
  Is Oral-B not an American company, owned by Procter & Gamble?
- I have a Philips Sonicare 5500, it arrived yesterday. its made in the nederlands. i was surprised!

I straight up love my Sonicare. I never expected a toothbrush to be so satisfying, but it really is. It's also nice to have the dental hygenist heap on the compliments!