Packageable toilet utensil

A tooth brush, comprising:

• an active head formed of brushing bristles;
• a handle solid with the active head, the handle comprising a stem which carries the head and a handhold connected to the stem so that the assembly formed of the head and of the stem is retractable into the handhold, wherein the handhold comprises two hollow bodies articulated with respect to each other, one body forming an open holder intended to receive the brushing bristles of the head and consisting of a bottom-forming wall and two substantially side walls and one body forming a cover folding back on the holder-forming body, and the stem being mounted in pivoting relationship about a pivoting pin of the holderforming body in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal median plane of this body so that the assembly formed of the stem and the head can occupy an active position in the prolongation of the holder-forming body in which position said assembly is locked by folding back the cover-forming body and an inactive retracted position after folding back of the cover-forming body, and wherein said holder-forming body comprises one side opening provided through one side wall thereof for the passage of said brushing bristles of the active head, and said cover-forming body comprises near its open free end two side walls of inner width greater than the outer width of the sidewalls of the holder forming body so that when in a folded configuration, the sidewalls of the cover forming body serve both to prevent inadvertent deployment of the active head from its retracted position by covering the side opening in the side wall of holder forming body, and additionally to lock the stem into an extended position by securing a position of the stem between its walls so as to prevent movement of the stem about the stem's pivot.