Plastic-free oral care

Brush cleaner.
Live quieter.

Every plastic toothbrush sheds microplastics into your mouth twice a day. Tusk is the natural alternative — pure boar bristles on a sustainable bamboo handle, the way oral care used to be.

3.5M
Microplastics avoided per year
4.7
Average rating · 1,847 reviews
100%
Biodegradable, no exceptions
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Brush cleaner.Live quieter.
Plastic-free 100%
<p>Modern brushing leaves your <em>body deficient.</em></p>
The problem with plastic

Modern brushing leaves your body deficient.

Tusk is the first toothbrush engineered to close the gap.

  • 90%1

    of plastic toothbrush users unknowingly ingest microplastics every time they brush. 1

  • 2,330,0002

    microplastic particles released by a single toothbrush every year. 2

  • 0

    particles released by a Tusk boar-bristle brush — independently lab-verified, every batch.

1. Wang et al., Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2025. 2. Cox et al., Environmental Science & Technology, 2019.

The hidden cost
2,300,000

Microplastic particles your toothbrush sheds every year

A 2025 peer-reviewed study found that conventional toothbrushes release 2.33 million microplastic particles per year — particles you swallow, your kids swallow, and your gut absorbs. Tusk releases zero.

Switch to natural
What you actually get

A toothbrush, designed like furniture.

Hand-finished from the bristle to the base. Built to last, then return to soil.

Bristles

100% boar hair, hand-set into bamboo.

Each bunch woven by hand into a hand-drilled hole. Held by friction, not glue. The way oral care was made for centuries.

Zero microplastics. Period.

No nylon means no microplastic shed. Natural boar bristles physically cannot release plastic particles.

0 particles per brush, per use

Moso bamboo.

Each bunch is woven into hand-drilled bamboo. No glue. No machine.

Compostable, end to end.

Each bunch is woven into hand-drilled bamboo. No glue. No machine.

What's not in it

No nylon. No glue. No BPA. No phthalates. No PFAS.

We could've made the list shorter. We didn't, because every line is what we beat.

Materials, in detail

Two ingredients. Both with résumés.

Click into each material to see exactly where it comes from, what it does, and why centuries of evidence beat decades of plastic.

The bristles

Boar hair

Sus scrofa · free-range

Sourced from boar at natural seasonal molting — no shaving, no harm. Washed in food-grade hydrogen peroxide, steam-sterilised, UV-treated, then hand-set into bamboo using friction alone. No glue ever touches your mouth.

5,000 years of recorded use as oral-care bristle
The handle

Moso bamboo

Phyllostachys edulis · Anji, China

Moso bamboo grows three feet a day, sequesters more carbon than oak, and naturally resists mould without chemical treatment. We choose three-year-old culms for optimal density, then sand them to a furniture-grade finish.

28,000 psi tensile strength · stronger than red oak
The routine

Three steps. One full year.

Brush it, swap it, compost it. The way oral care should work.

  1. 01

    Brush twice daily

    Use as you would any toothbrush. Boar bristle flexes naturally — let the brush do the work, no scrubbing required.

  2. 02

    Swap every 12 weeks

    Each brush is engineered to last 2 to 3 months. Your 4-pack covers exactly one full year — we do the math so you don't have to.

  3. 03

    Compost it whole

    When you're done, drop the entire brush into a backyard or municipal compost bin. Bamboo and boar hair break down completely within months.

Quality you can verify

Two ingredients. Nothing to hide.

Boar hair and Moso bamboo. No synthetics, no chemicals, no microplastics. That's the whole list.

  • Zero plastic

    No nylon, no polypropylene, no polyester — not a single gram of plastic in any Tusk brush.

  • Zero BPA or phthalates

    No synthetic coatings, no chemical finishes. Just raw bamboo and natural boar hair — nothing else.

  • Zero microplastic shed

    Natural boar bristles can't shed microplastics because they contain no plastic. Simple as that.

  • Fully compostable

    Bamboo handle and boar bristles biodegrade completely. Your brush won't outlive you by 400 years.

  • Two ingredients only

    Boar hair and Moso bamboo. No glue, no dye, no coating. The full ingredient list fits in a sentence.

  • Sustainable bamboo

    Moso bamboo grows up to a metre a day and self-regenerates after harvest. No replanting needed.

From real mouths

1,500+ people made the switch.

Their dentists noticed. So did their teeth.

I switched in March. By June my dentist asked what I changed because my gums looked the healthiest they had in five years.

Maren Oakley
Verified · Melbourne, VIC

Bought it as a stocking stuffer for my wife. Now we both use it and the kids stole the spare. Whole family converted in three weeks.

Rohan Kapoor
Verified · Auckland, NZ

Naturopath here. The microplastic data is staggering. I now hand a Tusk brush to every patient who comes in for hormone work.

Dr. Anika Patel
Verified · Byron Bay, NSW

Texture took two days to get used to. After that I genuinely cannot brush with nylon anymore — feels like sandpaper compared to this.

Caleb Thompson
Verified · Wellington, NZ

Composted my first one whole. Like dropped it in the bin and forgot about it. That alone made me a customer for life.

Sophie Whitford
Verified · Gold Coast, QLD

Bristles haven't shed a single hair in two months. The bamboo handle has the weight of something expensive. Doesn't feel like a sustainability gimmick at all.

Devon McAllister
Verified · Sydney, NSW
Make the switch

Stop brushing with plastic.

Twelve thousand customers already swapped their drugstore brush for boar hair on bamboo. Your turn.

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