Oral care product comprising an oral care rheological solid composition
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsMatthew Lawrence Lynch, Brandon Philip Illie, Taotao Zhu, Jamie Lynn Dria
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Abstract
An oral care product including an oral care rheological solid composition including a crystallizing agent, an aqueous phase, and oral care adjunct ingredient. The oral care product can be a floss, a dentifrice, and/or a whitening product. A method for making an oral care rheological solid composition by providing water, providing crystallizing agent, providing NaCl in an amount of about 10% or less, by weight of the oral care rheological solid composition; and mixing the water, crystallizing agent, and NaCl to produce the oral care rheological solid composition.
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An oral care product comprising:
- an oral care rheological solid composition comprising:
- (a) a crystalline mesh of interlocking, fiber-like crystalline particles formed from a crystallizing agent, wherein an amount of the crystallizing agent is from about 0.5% to about 7%, by weight of the oral care rheological solid composition, and wherein the crystallizing agent is selected from the group consisting of sodium stearate, sodium palmitate, sodium myristate, sodium tridecanoate, sodium pentadecanoate, sodium heptadecanoate, sodium nonadecanoate, and combinations thereof,
- (b) from greater than 0% to less than about 2%, by weight of the oral care rheological solid composition, of suspension agent, wherein the suspension agent comprises polysaccharide,
- (c) oral care adjunct ingredient, and
- (d) aqueous phase, wherein the aqueous phase comprises greater than about 80%, by weight of the oral care rheological solid composition, of water,
- wherein the crystalline mesh defines voids, and the aqueous phase is contained in the voids.
An oral care rheological solid composition comprising:
- a crystalline mesh comprising a three-dimensional, interlocking crystalline skeleton frame formed from a crystallizing agent, wherein an amount of the crystallizing agent is from about 0.5% to about 7%, by weight of the oral care rheological solid composition, wherein the crystalline mesh defines voids;
- an aqueous phase, the aqueous phase comprising greater than about 80%, by weight of the oral care rheological solid composition, of water and an oral care adjunct ingredient;
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- from greater than 0% to less than about 2%, by weight of the oral care rheological solid composition, of suspension agent, wherein the suspension agent comprises a polysaccharide,
- wherein the oral care rheological solid composition has a first, unbroken state and a second, broken state, wherein the aqueous phase is contained in the voids of the crystalline mesh in the first, unbroken state and, in the second, broken state, the crystalline mesh is broken and at least a portion of the aqueous phase is expressed out of the oral care rheological solid composition.
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