Unless your cupboards are stocked with chalk, glycerin, xylitol, and peppermint oil, and you’ve got National Geographic host George Zaidan@georgezaidan on standby, you might want to forgo making toothpaste in your home chemistry lab (aka kitchen).

You may decide to give your morning mouth refresher three cheers — and an extra

Take a minute to show some love for your toothpaste!

squeeze — after watching creative chemist Zaidan re-create the bathroom basic using only natural ingredients.

For a National Geographic video series, Ingredients (New episodes premiere every Thursday on National Geographic’s YouTube channel!) the MIT-trained chemist and science educator attempts to assemble everyday household products like lipstick, shaving cream, and toothpaste.

Watch as Zaidan tackles the long list of intimidating chemical names, figures out what they all do, finds natural substitutes, and whips it all together — sans recipe — to create his own homemade toothpaste: https://youtu.be/NOaCqRvzMXQ