
THE PROBLEM WITH PLASTIC BRISTLES
Twice a day, for a lifetime, plastic comes into contact with your gums.
A standard nylon toothbrush can shed nano-scale plastic fibres each time the bristles flex against your enamel. You can’t see them. You can’t taste them. And wherever your saliva goes, they can go too.
You replace the toothbrush every three months. The plastic it already shed stays behind.
Switching to natural bristles removes the source. No nylon in your mouth. No nylon in the trash. No nylon from the bristles entering your bloodstream.
HOW IT’S MADE
Four simple choices.
A toothbrush designed around simpler, more natural materials.
Natural bristles
Boar or horse bristles replace the conventional nylon fibres found on most toothbrushes.
Bamboo handle
The traditional plastic handle is replaced with a simple bamboo alternative.
Pressure-anchored
The natural bristle tufts are mechanically secured directly into the toothbrush head.
Simpler materials
Bamboo and natural fibres make this a simpler-material alternative to a standard plastic toothbrush.
THE COMPARISON
What’s actually touching your gums?
Not every toothbrush marketed as a more natural option removes plastic from the bristles themselves.
CHOOSE YOUR BRISTLE
Boar or horse?
Both are natural. The difference comes down to how firm you like your toothbrush to feel.
Boar bristles.
Naturally firmer and more textured, giving you more noticeable feedback while brushing.
You normally prefer medium or firmer toothbrush bristles and enjoy a more substantial brushing feel.
Horse bristles.
Finer and more flexible, providing a noticeably gentler feeling around your teeth and gums.
You normally choose soft toothbrushes or simply prefer a gentler brushing sensation.
REVIEWS
20,000+ Canadians have made the swap.
A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDERS
We started asking what our toothbrush was actually made from.
Like most people, we had never really questioned it.
We saw bamboo toothbrushes everywhere and assumed they had solved the plastic problem.
Then we looked closer and realized that many of the brushes marketed as more natural were still putting nylon bristles directly into our mouths twice a day.
We wanted something simpler: a bamboo handle paired with genuinely natural bristles, not synthetic fibres hidden behind vague marketing language.
That idea became Soleya.
A small everyday change built around materials that are easier to understand.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Everything else.
A few common questions about making the switch.