Could mouthwash actually make your breath worse?

That minty-fresh mouthwash could be making your breath even worse!

According to Dr. Phil Stemmer, of the Fresh Breath Centre in London, we shouldn’t be using mouthwash right after we brush. He says there can be a chemical reaction between the mouthwash and the toothpaste that actually cancel out the benefits of each other. If you like to rinse with mouthwash, you should wait at least a half hour. 

There’s another trick to making mouthwash effective that most of us miss. Check the label. It probably says to swish it around for a full minute. That’s a pretty long time and the average swisher doesn’t even come close. It takes a full minute for the active ingredients in mouthwash to start to work.