Stripy Toothpaste like AquaFresh

[AlexOC]

I'm sorry, i've been sitting playing with my aquafresh tube for ages now, and i can not work out how it comes out stripy.

Any ideas?

[Kardan]

It's stripy within the tube? :S

[AlexOC]

Then it wouldn't come out stripy, it would mix.

[9y]

My one iv got atm is meant to be white and green but its all mixed, idk how :S

[Stephen!]

I think the different colours are slightly more viscose (thicker paste) than the white stuff therefore it stays in position.

Just a guess.

[MizMe93]

the nozzle thing has a gizmo in it that separates the different colours :)

[9y]

So far found out that the different colours do absolutely nothing different. they are just coloured. So if its like 3 in 1, its actually 1 in 1 with 3 different colours

The reason for the stripes:

In each tube of toothpaste there's a little bit of zebra fat at the bottom to make it all stripey ;)

[AlexOC]

Dear god

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothpaste#Striped_toothpaste

It's genius

[9y]

Im telling you, Thats all lies, Its all about the zebra fat..

[AlexOC]

Mmm, im taking it apart im taking it apart!!

[GommeInc]

Not necessarily? It will only mix if you squeeze the tube and twist, but even then it shouldn't properly mix at all! In the big tubes it compacts into the thin nozzle, which doesn't suggest any sort of mixing at all :P It just compacts. Though the likelihood of the two colours having a difference thicknesses to the white is also a probability, so that the white doesn't slightly blend.


Dear god

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothpaste#Striped_toothpaste

It's genius
Okay, I'm definitely buying one tomorrow just to take apart. How do the squirty tubes work then? The Aquafresh tubes which are literally plastic tubes is the only explain they've posted? It also comes in that squirty tube stuff like standard toothpaste, and I swear that has no funky mechanisms!

[AlexOC]

This is the most interesting discussion that has ever hit HxF.

[9y]

Pics of the smashed up thing lol