Mom with a PREP | Toothpaste dots were an idea someone came up with awhile back to have toothpaste on hand for camping and hiking. You have seen them all over Pinterest, right? They take up little space, are almost weightless, are better than packing a tube of toothpaste that will inevitably burst and put toothpaste over the entire contents of your bag, no matter how many layers of plastic you have encased it in (Murphy's Law). But do they really work?