Boots and The Hygiene Bank launch appeal to donate toothbrushes and toothpaste to support children back to school [Video]

Boots and The Hygiene Bank have launched an urgent appeal for donations of toothbrushes and toothpaste to support children as they head back to school.

Boots is donating 175,000 toothbrushes and toothpastes to The Hygiene Bank and has teamed up with TV personality Josie Gibson to encourage the public to donate too via donation points in its stores. For every kilogram donated, Boots will donate an additional full-sized product to The Hygiene Bank.

The Hygiene Bank will distribute all the donations to schools and projects that support young people in the UK throughout September. Boots has also launched a range of educational resources for oral health on the Boots Health Hub.

According to figures from The Hygiene Bank, over 4.2 million people in the UK are living in hygiene poverty, which means they cannot afford many of the everyday hygiene and personal grooming products most of us take for granted.[1]

The Hygiene Bank’s …