"am curious as to when I should use alcohol based mouthwash, before or after oil pulling, and how long?"

ACK!!!!!!!!!!!! No mouthwash (particularly alcohol based) - NO flouride toothpaste!

After the pull, rinse with Seasalt water and brush with NON-flouride product: 100% pure olive oil soap (yeah, I thought the same thing, at first), 100% pure baking soda, or natural non-flouridated toothpaste.

It's beneficial to swish your mouth with warm Sea Salt water after the pull. If you want to use mouthwash, I use Spry Xylitol. You can google Xylitol and read about it, it's excellent for caries.

Molly

Look at the ingredients in the mouthwash and then get rid of it. OPing would be enough that you wouldn't need it anymore. Also, if you have bad breath then diet would be your real issue.

Thanks for the input. I am already throroughly educated on the evils of fluoride. I usually use the mouthwash and brush with no paste or anything. I am currently satisfied with the mouthwash, but i am open for all suggestions and will check out that xylitol.


I found that since Oil is unsoluble in water using the alcohol based wash thoroughly cleaned my mouth of all that nasty stuff. I've found, as of today, that i want to do OP, then brush, then mouthwash.


After rinsing my mouth initially with water and my fingers, i foudn that brushing removed alot of brownish stuff from my mouth. The mouthwash also removed some unusual white foam (apparently leftover Oil) from my mouth, and kills the germs as well.


As for my diet, i am a satisfied vegetarian though would like to hear your take on it.


Thanks for all the help :)