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*Rav Ovadia Yosef says even paste is allowed. <ref> Shu"t Yabia Omer 4:30. </ref> This is based on the magen avraham (316:24) that says your allowed to smear spit on the ground, since if what your smearing gets totally absorbed, therefore its not a problem of mimareach. Similarly, toothpaste doesn’t stay there for a long time. His second proof is that the Rama (Orach Chaim 326:10) doesn’t say that the problem with using a hard soap is mimareach but instead says molid, because the soap only remains there temporarily.  
*Rav Ovadia Yosef says even paste is allowed. <ref> Shu"t Yabia Omer 4:30. </ref> This is based on the magen avraham (316:24) that says your allowed to smear spit on the ground, since if what your smearing gets totally absorbed, therefore its not a problem of mimareach. Similarly, toothpaste doesn’t stay there for a long time. His second proof is that the Rama (Orach Chaim 326:10) doesn’t say that the problem with using a hard soap is mimareach but instead says molid, because the soap only remains there temporarily.  
*Rav Soloveitchik agreed to this <ref> Nefesh Harav 168.</ref> He says that even though the ads claim to coat your tooth for 24 hours he wasn’t convinced this was true. And even if it is true, an invisible coating isn’t enough to assur it. <ref> (Aruch Hashulchan Yoreh Deah 83:15) </ref>
*Rav Soloveitchik agreed to this <ref> Nefesh Harav 168.</ref> He says that even though the ads claim to coat your tooth for 24 hours he wasn’t convinced this was true. And even if it is true, an invisible coating isn’t enough to assur it. <ref> (Aruch Hashulchan Yoreh Deah 83:15) </ref>
*The Tzitz Eliezer rules like Rav Moshe. <ref> Shu"t Tzitz Eliezer(7:30:8). </ref> He says that its not same as magen avraham because the spit the whole purpose is to get it into the ground, but with the toothpaste there is a purpose in the smearing even if just for a minute. (Says there’s no shiur for how long it has to be there
*The Tzitz Eliezer rules like Rav Moshe. <ref> Shu"t Tzitz Eliezer(7:30:8). </ref> He says that its not same as magen avraham because the spit the whole purpose is to get it into the ground, but with the toothpaste there is a purpose in the smearing even if just for a minute. (Says there’s no shiur for how long it has to be there.)
 
===Molid===
The toothpaste becoming a foamy, more fluid liquid maybe a problem of molid. This problem is raised based on Rashi(Shabbat 51a)which says its asur to squeeze or crush ice on Shabbat because of molid. <ref>(a dirabanan issur of changing form because it’s so creative it’s like a quasi-melacha.(Shu”t Maharal Diskin 66)</ref> Shulchan Aruch however holds like the Rambam saying squeezing ice is asur because it looks like squeezing fruit which falls under the category of sechita.<ref> Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 320:9 based on Rambam Mishneh Torah Hilchot Shabbat 21:13. This same machloket applies to the permissibility of using a bar of soap. Shulchan Aruch (326:10) permits it, but the Rama there forbids it because of molid.</ref>
*Rav Moshe Feinstein in Iggeros Moshe and Rav Yitzchak Yaakov Weiss in Minchat Yitzchak prohibit brushing teeth with toothpaste based on this also. <ref> Iggeros Moshe ibid, Minchat Yitzchak (3:50)
*Rav Ovadia in Yabia Omer paskins like the Shulchan Aruch that, and says Ashkenazim should hold like the Rama and therefore brushing teeth would be asur for them. <ref> Yabia Omer Orach Chaim 4:28 </ref>
*Rabbi Herschel Schachter says that even for Ashkenazim it should not be a problem because molid is solid to liquid not paste to liquid. <ref> Rav Schachter is quoted by Rabbi Aryeh Leibowitz http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/752802/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Ten_Minute_Halacha_-_Brushing_Teeth_on_Shabbos </ref>
 
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