MOUTH PASTE

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements

Different from toothpaste in a couple ways. Most noticeable is how it requires no brushing to make use of, unless of course you’ve coated your teeth in some sort of hard substance that stops it from acting.

It was actually created far before toothpaste, but due to certain lacking qualities in technology it was seen as a half-usable product at best. Even then it was known for completely destroying your teeth after several years of regular use, but that all changed as chemistry developed to a certain point. We refined this recipe and a single alchemist literally caused the collapse of an interplanetary toothpaste industry overnight. It was really funny in retrospect, but maybe less so for those involved.

INGREDIENTS AND RECIPE

* Fluorine agitator, 1 ml – natural gathering stage fluid

* Sodium fluoride, 50 mg – non magical mineral

* Bee’s grace, 5 ml – non magical fluid

* Low tier enchanted water, 50 ml – natural gathering stage fluid

* Stasis gel, 400 ml – non magical fluid

To start with the chemistry or magical chemistry first? What a bother…

This recipe isn’t really possible in technologically undeveloped realms, and is more of an interaction with the more modern form of mortal tier alchemy that occurs. Due to limitations in the cultivation requirements you really only have a few options for making these recipes. And chemistry with some magic is really the optimal one out of them, albeit the more demanding variant.

Stasis slime is similar to soft water in a way, in that it sucks up all impurities almost like a living creature would, but several differences exist. Obtained from a slime-like creature, anything given to the gel will be equally distributed within and remain in a trapped state. We have ways to overcome this stasis function though.

Enchanted water is water filled with ridiculous amounts of Qi. A peak natural gathering stage cultivator can make it in 10 ml baches, alternatively you can save yourself a lot of hassle and buy it instead.

Bee’s grace is an amazing honey with several properties we want. Namely its anti-disease functionality and high nutritional content. It’s made even easier by the bees being a kind and generous group that willingly trade honey for food. In terms of cheap medicines that can be readily changed to combat new diseases it really holds a bar above most drugs.

Sodium fluoride is a relatively easy way to get hold of fluoride, a compound used in pretty much all toothpastes and such. I really stress that you should buy this, but I understand if you can’t. I will include a general method to acquire some, but do take care as it involves the usage of highly acidic compounds.

Last is the fluorite agitator, used prolifically in the toothpaste industry to boost their effects. Unlike a usual catalyst, which simply reduces the bar for chemical reactions, this chemical directly speeds up the reaction time of any fluorine reaction. Quite literally an agitator in that way, and most elements have one as a matter of fact. They just lose any functionality due to chemicals having no effect on higher stage cultivators. This stuff is all manufactured and must be bought at an alchemical store.

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For your sodium fluoride, begin by taking any fluorite crystal and grinding it to a powder. Add it to a solution of sulfuric acid to form hydrofluoric acid and calcium sulphate, which must be heated to 265 C to react. Removing the solid calcium sulphate from the solution should be simple.

Mix the hydrofluoric acid with sodium hydroxide to obtain a solution of sodium fluoride and water. The sodium fluoride is extracted through use of precipitation. Although there are magical ingredients that can forcefully separate compounds to provide you with sodium or even the fluoride directly, using them in practically any concentration increases your production costs by 100 fold.

For the main recipe which uses significantly less chemistry.

Add the sodium fluoride to the stasis gel, leaving it to fully distribute over the course of an hour. While that is happening, start heating up your honey till it becomes a runny liquid. It should be akin to caramel in texture.

Now remove your heat source and add the enchanted water in steps of 10 ml. Only add a further volume if the resulting mixture begins boiling, and if it still boils after all 50 ml have been added then you grossly overheated your honey. Just restart this process in that case.

Allow the dense Qi to reinforce the honey, bringing up its beneficial properties as needed for gum protection and the like. Try to stir it once every few minutes, and it should be done after a total of 10 minutes.

Now the slightly dangerous part. Begin chilling your honey and enchanted water mixture to -40 C, it is best to use a flash freezing method if possible, but any cold enough room will do the trick. The mixture should not freeze at the given temperature, but will give off a noticeable chill due to the air above it condensing.

The next part must be performed with some sort of blast shielding available.

In this step you can add the fluoride agitator in 0.1 ml steps, stirring gently between each drop. If the solution begins bubbling then leave it alone and step behind the shielding and wait for it to stop. A reaction is a sign that you either did not chill the solution enough, or overheated the honey as stated before. The reaction can take one of two forms.

1. It comes to a rest and returns to its tranquil state. This is the ideal form.

2. It violently explodes, sending freezing liquid everywhere. This is blocked by having a proper barrier.

Moving on with a finished solution, this can be directly added to the stasis gel and left to distribute over the course of two and a half hours. After that the gel can be packaged and sold directly, just make sure you have a license for such things in most technological worlds…

USAGE

Imagine it like toothpaste for your whole mouth, except it requires a quarter of the time for an effect several times greater than even the best on the interplanetary market. You stick between 30-50 ml into your mouth and spread it around with your tongue. Don’t swallow it, as consuming large quantities of fluorine is known to be dangerous.

After half a minute on every portion of your mouth you spit it out and rinse out any leftovers with water. By removing the human input required to brush your teeth you can more easily encourage people to take part in this. Lastly, using honey as the main disease combatant resolves any problems with the taste, although most manufacturers came up with solutions to those issues millennia ago.

If you really wanted to then adding any sort of flavouring is possible for this stuff.