Editing Toothpaste (section)

====Dispensing====
{{main|Tube (container)}}
{{main|Toothpaste pump dispenser}}
Toothpaste is usually dispensed via a collapsible tube or with a more rigid pump. Several traditional and innovative designs have been developed.<ref>{{Citation
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 | title = Innovative and sustainable toothpaste packaging design
 | journal = Journal of Graphic Engineering and Design
| volume =11
 | issue =2
 | pages =19–29
 | year =2020
 | doi =10.24867/jged-2020-2-019
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 }}</ref>  The dispenser must be matched to the flow properties of the toothpaste.<ref>{{Citation
 | last =Ahuja
 | first =Amit
 | title = Rheological and sensory properties of toothpastes
 | journal = Rheologica Acta
| volume =57
 | issue =6–7
 | pages =19–29
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 | doi =10.1007/s00397-018-1090-z
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}}</ref> [[File:Toothpaste.jpg|thumb|alt=A photo of the end of a tube of toothpaste that has a manufactured opening with blue toothpaste extending out|Modern toothpaste gel, in a tube]]
In 1880, Doctor [[Washington Sheffield]] of [[New London, CT]] manufactured toothpaste into a collapsible tube, [[Sheffield Pharmaceuticals|Dr. Sheffield's Creme Dentifrice]]. He had the idea after his son traveled to Paris and saw painters using paint from tubes. In [[York]] in 1896, Colgate-Palmolive Dental Cream was packaged in collapsible tubes imitating Sheffield. The original collapsible toothpaste tubes were made of [[lead]].<ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Schlosser J | date = 20 December 2005 | url = http://blog.news-record.com/staff/architecture/2005/12/readers_have_po.shtml | title = Get the lead out didn't always mean for soldiers to speed up during World War II. It meant removing lead from toothpaste tubes to make bullets | work = Architecture Antiquity Artifacts | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081013162246/http://blog.news-record.com/staff/architecture/2005/12/readers_have_po.shtml | archive-date = October 13, 2008 | df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine | vauthors = Cooper HS, Gill B | url = http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1960/08/06/1960_08_06_020_TNY_CARDS_000262427 | title = The Talk of the Town: Collapsible | magazine = The New Yorker | date = 6 August 1960 }}</ref>