Love the stuff. Buy one bottle and you can shower with it for months.
I can confirm, it is bad, I tried it camping once. But I mean you could uses it if you had no alternatives.
I can't really say how well it works; my teeth are in bad shape but that is presumably because I love sugar and vinegar. I think dentists would tend to recommend baking soda as the simple inexpensive toothpaste alternative, however at least one study someone mentioned here not too long ago found that using toothpaste vs water doesn't seem to make much difference. I've heard some theorizing about abrasive vs. non abrasive toothpaste but I haven't looked if there are any studies on that question.