Toothpaste is a dentifrice used in conjunction with a toothbrush to help maintain oral hygiene. Historically, has been used as a digestive aid, styptic, disinfectant or dentifrice. Cigar ash may be mixed with chalk to make a dentifrice or tooth powder. Pliny the Elder reported the use of pounded pumice as a dentifrice. It is also used as a fungicide, dentifrice, rubefacient, diaphoretic, perfume, carminative and sudorific. He left Forbes a fortune estimated at $2,000,000 from his dentifrice and hair shampoo interests. Later, he worked in advertising (for Gibbs Dentifrice). Pioneers used the bark of bayberry in dentifrice. The Sheffield Dentifrice Co. started producing his mouthwash and an entirely new product. Dentifrice is also the French word for toothpaste. From 1880 to 1892, the Sheffield Dentifrice Co. purchased collapsible tubes to package the toothpaste.