{"id":41103,"date":"2025-07-15T10:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/?p=41103"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:05:24","slug":"herbal-mouthwash-targets-gum-germs-while-letting-helpful-bacteria-flourish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/herbal-mouthwash-targets-gum-germs-while-letting-helpful-bacteria-flourish\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbal mouthwash targets gum germs while letting helpful bacteria flourish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash.jpg\" alt=\"herbal mouthwash\" class=\"wp-image-41104 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash-696x464.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash.jpg\" alt=\"herbal mouthwash\" class=\"wp-image-41104 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mouthwash-696x464.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo: liudmilachernetska 123rf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mouthwashes have long bragged about killing 99.9 per cent of germs in your mouth, but US researchers suggest this scorched-earth approach may harm oral health by eliminating beneficial bacteria along with the bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\u00a0study\u00a0by these researchers at Rutgers Health in New York\u2014and published in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/oral-health\/articles\/10.3389\/froh.2025.1529061\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frontiers in Oral Health<\/a><\/em>\u2014found that a naturopathic mouthwash containing herbal ingredients could selectively target\u00a0disease-causing bacteria\u00a0while preserving the protective microbes that help maintain healthy gums and teeth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a paradigm shift,&#8221; senior author Georgios Kotsakis said.<\/p><div class=\"bitem-article-desktop-720x300-in-text\" id=\"bitem-2330956213\"><!-- Bite 720x300 [async] -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">if (!window.AdButler){(function(){var s = document.createElement(\"script\"); s.async = true; s.type = \"text\/javascript\";s.src = 'https:\/\/servedby.engagemedia.com.au\/app.js';var n = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; n.parentNode.insertBefore(s, n);}());}<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\nvar AdButler = AdButler || {}; AdButler.ads = AdButler.ads || [];\r\nvar abkw = window.abkw || '';\r\nvar plc705185 = window.plc705185 || 0;\r\ndocument.write('<'+'div id=\"placement_705185_'+plc705185+'\"><\\\/'+'div>');\r\nAdButler.ads.push({handler: function(opt){ AdButler.register(165450, 705185, [720,300], 'placement_705185_'+opt.place, opt); }, opt: { place: plc705185++, keywords: abkw, domain: 'servedby.engagemedia.com.au', click:'CLICK_MACRO_PLACEHOLDER' }});\r\n<\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re moving from eradicating all bacteria to focusing on selectivity. We want to keep the good bacteria alive while targeting the bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers tested a natural mouthwash called StellaLife VEGA Oral Care rinse against two conventional products: the prescription mouthwash chlorhexidine and Listerine Cool Mint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Petri dishes, they exposed various oral bacteria to each rinse and monitored their growth over several days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The natural rinse significantly reduced populations of harmful bacteria such as&nbsp;<em>Fusobacterium nucleatum<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Porphyromonas gingivalis<\/em>, while allowing beneficial species such as&nbsp;<em>Streptococcus oralis<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Veillonella parvula&nbsp;<\/em>to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chlorhexidine and Listerine showed no such selectivity, eliminating beneficial and harmful bacteria alike. 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