Toothpaste with alginate based rheology modifier
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorsXiaojing Lv, Manying Shi, Zhuoxing Zhang
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Abstract
The present invention provides oral care compositions, and in particular toothpaste compositions comprising a calcium salt abrasive and a novel alginate-based binder and rheology modifier, together with methods of use and manufacture thereof.
Claims16
A toothpaste comprising a binder system and a calcium salt abrasive, wherein the binder system comprises sodium calcium alginate having a sodium:calcium ratio of from 7:1 to 4:1, wherein the sodium calcium alginate is present in the toothpaste in an amount of from 0.09% to 0.1% of the toothpaste by weight, and the toothpaste further comprises carboxymethylcellulose in an amount of from 0.5% to 1.5% of the toothpaste by weight.
A toothpaste comprising a binder system and an calcium salt abrasive, wherein the binder system comprises sodium calcium alginate having a sodium:calcium ratio of from 7:1 to 4:1, wherein the sodium calcium alginate is present in the toothpaste in an amount of about 0.1% of the toothpaste by weight, and the toothpaste further comprises carboxymethylcellulose in an amount of from 0.5% to 1.5% of the toothpaste by weight.
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