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Mainly chalk with some flavoring like mint. But the first toothpastes were made from gritty substances such as chalk and jeweller's polish. They certainly wore away those nasty little stains-but they wore away people's teeth too!

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Precipitatated calcium carbonate.~Mishaun

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