Alex and I are germaphobes. Yes – we really are. And Alex much more than me, he is the germ police in our house. But one thing that I hate is cleaning with chemicals as I personally feel that they can be just as harmful. So we try to find alternatives to cleaning and sanitizing our house and ourselves for the chemical-filled alternatives. We have posted some about homemade natural cleaners (and will continue to do so), but have you ever thought about your toothbrush?
I was watching Dr. Oz a couple of months ago and he talked about how disgusting our toothbrushes were and all the the germs that infest them. So, he recommended a UV Light sanitizer that comes with a toothbrush. This set allowed you to sanitize your toothbrush and kill 99.9% of germs on your toothbrush between uses. See the article on the Dr. Oz site and the Dr. Oz video talking about it too!
This totally made sense, it was clear that toothbrushes are nasty and it isn’t cost efficient to change constantly (especially as a family of 7) and the UV light sanitizing seemed to be the perfect “natural” solution to a clean toothbrush, healthier mouth and therefore healthier life.
This is the $189.00 at Bed Bath and Beyond that Dr. Oz recommended – the Philips Sonicare FlexCare Electric Toothbrush.
But the cost floored me at $189.00 at Bed Bath and Beyond for EACH set for each person! YIKES!! We really wanted to see if we could find an alternative to this high cost. We did find them on Amazon for $119, but this was still too much for our budget. In addition, we get toothbrushes for FREE and very cheap all of the time, so all we really needed was a way to sanitize them naturally.
In our quest to find a cheaper alternative, we came across a company called Vio Light who sells exactly what we were looking for. They were still higher than we wanted to pay so we searched for deals and discounts. A couple of days later, we were able to buy $40 Vio Light vouchers for $20 through Eversave! Yipee!! We bought two of them.
We then bought the plug-in 4 toothbrush sanitizer (in the kids’ bathroom) and the battery operated 2 toothbrush sanitizer for our bathroom. The results were awesome as we had stopped catching bugs and no one was sick in our house since starting this! However, our little battery-operated santizier died in a couple of weeks, we replaced the batteries and died again in about 10 days, replaced the batteries yet again and now the power is very weak. We highly recommend from our experience that you do not buy the battery operated one! The Plug-in one is awesome and the kids toothbrushes are still being sanitized today just as they were the day we bought it! All you do is after brushing, place your toothbrush in, push the button and then the UV light comes on for 10 minutes to clean them. We just keep the toothbrushes in there as the toothbrush holder too!
The Kids’ 4 toothbrush sanitizer! Love it!
Our dead battery 2-toothbrush sanitizer that will soon be replaced 
We were trying to “save money” and not buy a second 4 toothbrush sanitizer (as we only needed to sanitize two more) and the battery operated one was less money. We haven’t had it now for a few weeks and we both started feeling sluggish and ill and I even got sick for the first time in months! Yes, I know this isn’t necessarily because of the sanitizer, but it made sense to me. 
Last week, Alex said that we have to buy a second plug-in sanitizer as it is totally worth it! We have been waiting for another deal on them and lo, and behold, Mamapedia today is selling the $40 Vio Light vouchers for $20!! YEAH! So I totally snatched one and am going to be immediately buying us a new sanitizer for Alex and I.
The moral of the story is that we completely agree with Dr. Oz’s recommendation, but couldn’t afford the cost and so we found an alternative that works beautifully and that we fully stand behind after trying it (just not the battery operated one!). And now you can grab one of these sanitizers for cheap too through Mamapedia today!
Here’s the deal:
- Head to the Mamapedia site here
- You will see the $40 Vio Light voucher for $20
- You can buy up to 5 of them
- Add them to your cart and complete your purchase
- Your voucher will be ready in a couple of days
- Then you can redeem your voucher at the Vio Light website
They have several products and even cute kids ones and have been featured on several shows like Rachel Ray, Oprah and more. You can join the Vio Light mailing list and you will receive a coupon code for 10% off too. Dr. Oz needs to recommend these ones as they are much cheaper and seemingly just as effective as the $189 he has
Our only regret is not knowing about this method of sanitizer sooner – we probably could have prevented many illnesses and misery in our house! Plus it saves us money on medicine and keeping our toothbrushes lasting a lot longer!!
Do you have a toothbrush sanitizing system? Your thoughts?
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Thank you so much for this, I have been wanting one of these but couldn’t justify the price.
Thank you so much for this, I have been wanting one of these but couldn’t justify the price.
My husband and I bought ourselves the exact same sonicare toothbrushes at Costco! They come 2 in a pack and I believe we paid 119.00 if not less. (We used a coupon for them that comes in the costco coupon booklet.) We love them : )
My husband and I bought ourselves the exact same sonicare toothbrushes at Costco! They come 2 in a pack and I believe we paid 119.00 if not less. (We used a coupon for them that comes in the costco coupon booklet.) We love them : )