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US 12,702,631 B2Granted
Oral care compositions comprising hops beta acids and fluoride ions
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsArif Ali Baig, Tammy Baker, Aaron Reed Biesbrock, Samuel James St. John
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Abstract
Oral care compositions with an anticaries or anticavity effect. Oral care compositions that have an extract from a species in the Humulus family and an anticaries drug, such as a fluoride ion source. Oral care compositions have fluoride and hops beta acid, such as from an extract from Humulus lupulus. Oral care compositions have a fluoride ion source and a hops beta acid derived from an extract of Humulus lupulus.
Claims16
An oral care composition comprising:
- (a) hops extract comprising hops beta acid and hops alpha acid, wherein the hops extract comprises greater than 0% to less than 5%, by weight of the hops extract, of the hops alpha acids, wherein the oral care composition comprises about 0.01% to about 10%, by weight of the composition, of the hops beta acid, and wherein the hops beta acid comprises only non-hydrogenated hops beta acids;
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- (b) about 0.01% to about 10%, by weight of the composition, of fluoride, wherein the oral care composition has a pH of greater than 7.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.