Teeth Too Stained To Smile? This Whitening Gel Is Worth A Try

This Dragon's Den backed gel tackles stains left by coffee, tea, red wine and tobacco in just six days.
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What would it take to get your bright smile back? Discolouration and stains on our teeth left by coffee, tea, red wine, food dyes and tobacco can feel like they’re hard to get rid of, but it’s not impossible.

Home whitening kits won’t set you back thousands of pounds like professional whitening, but not all of them come dentist – and Dragon’s Den – approved. But SmileTime’s kits do.

The peroxide-free whitening gel sits on your teeth in an LED mouth tray, and is designed to deliver results used for just 15 minutes over a course of six days. You even get a results chart in each kit to compare before and after (and there are plenty of tutorials on the product’s website).

If SmileTime sounds familiar, you may have seen co-founder Natalie Quail pitching the brand and its products on BBC Dragons’ Den earlier this year. Steven Bartlett and Touker Suleyman were so impressed they made offers of investment. 

Quail, a daughter of two dentists herself, explained how her first tooth whitening experience as a teen, helped regain her confidence and that’s what led her to start the brand. With advice from Quail’s parents, SmileTime was born.

“I’m very lucky to count my parents’ 30 years of experience in the UK dentistry to help inform product development, customer care, and new trends,” she said of her range, which now includes other SmileTime products including electric toothbrushes, whitening pens and whitening strips.

Reviewers say the original minty gel, which can whiten up to five shades, is gentle, sensitivity free and that results are noticeable. And it’s still the only whitening teeth brand backed by a national UK dental chain, Smileright.

Here are just some of the buys you can get from SmileTime.

1
This original whitening kit
This kit is formulated with an advanced active whitening ingredient called PAP that whitens and brightens teeth without any pain or sensitivity.
2
This teeth whitening pen
This pen delivers results in just one minute so it's great for a brightening highlighter effect just before a selfie or photo.
3
These tooth whitening strips
There strips are formulated with 100% natural activated coconut flavoured charcoal and peppermint oil to brighten and whiten teeth up to six shades.
4
The SmileTime electric toothbrush
This toothbrush has five different settings – clean, white, polish, soft, sensitive, with various amplitude ranges to suit every individual need.
5
The SmileTime Whitening Starter Kit
Get going on your teeth whitening journey with this starter kit, which includes the Natural Charcoal Teeth Whitening Kit (one Charcoal Teeth Whitening Powder and one Bamboo Toothbrush) and one Teeth Whitening Pen.