The Sonicare Challenge is Over

If you’ve been reading my blog, you know I am participating in the 30 day Sonicare Challenge. Over the weekend our family (me, Jason & 2 younger kids) completed our challenge. So, how did I like the Sonicare toothbrush? I went out yesterday and bought 2 more toothbrushes (with my money) for my 2 older kids. I am a firm believer now that the toothbrush does make a difference.

Here is the Whrrl story from our purchase.

When I started the challenge, I really did not believe that the toothbrush could make a difference. In the past, I always bought the toothbrush that was on sale and had a color I liked (yes, seriously, I sometimes picked out my toothbrush cuz they had orange!). My kids got whatever character toothbrush they wanted. When I saw the challenge, I really thought this was going to be my opportunity to show everyone that the toothbrush really doesn’t matter. I was going to prove everyone wrong. But I need to swallow my pride here because the challenge ended up showing me that the toothbrush makes ALL the difference.

I noticed it immediately. My teeth really did feel like I had just gone to the dentist. I noticed my kids teeth looked better. They aren’t the best at brushing and sometimes I would notice their teeth looked a bit yellow from rushing through the brushing. Not anymore because they know how long to brush now. The Sonicare kid’s toothbrushes beep every 30 seconds so they get their whole mouth really clean.  At the end of the day, there was not as much grime on our teeth. they still felt smooth and clean.

Yesterday, I decided to invest in 2 more Sonicare toothbrushes for my older kids (ages 14 & 11). Before this challenge, I would never have spent $80 on toothbrushes because I thought it would have been a waste of money. I am thoroughly convinced now that it is definitely worth the money.

One other side note I needed to make. In a previous post, I mentioned that I thought it would be good if the adult toothbrushes would also beep every 30 seconds so you had a better idea of time while brushing (and knew when to change sides). I was researching the different products offered by Philips and saw that some of the adult toothbrushes have that feature.

Here are the links to the tooth­brushes that our fam­ily used dur­ing the challenge:

Kid’s HX6311/02 toothbrush

Adult Essence toothbrush

There are 7 other fam­i­lies par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Soni­care Chal­lenge (#soni­carechal­lenge). You can find their sto­ries at the Soni­care Chal­lenge Website

Dis­clo­sure: I received money for my par­tic­i­pa­tion in the 30 day chal­lenge and to pur­chase the toothbrushes. (from Soni­care and Collective Bias) All opinions are my own!