Dental cream composition
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorGiacinto G. Barberio
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Abstract
Dental cream having a smooth texture with little tendency to form grain containing calcium carbonate polishing agent and sodium lauryl sulphate surface active agent having a broad distribution of alkyl groups containing 10-18 carbon atoms and as additive which reduces grain and alkali metal pyrophosphate or an anionic phosphate mono- and di-ester mixture.
Claims6
A dental cream consisting essentially of a vehicle of water and humectant and a gelling agent, from 20 to 75% by weight of a polishing material wherein at least about 95% by weigh of said polishing material is calcium carbonate, from 0.1 to 5% by weight of a surface active material including sodium lauryl sulphate having a broad distribution of alkyl groups, the C.sub.10 content being about 1 to 8% by weight, the C.sub.12 content being about 40 to 70% by weight, the C.sub.14 content being about 13 to 30% by weight, the C.sub.16 content being about 5 to 16% by weight and the C.sub.18 content being about 0 to 23% by weight, and from 0.2 to 1% by weight of an additive of an M.sub.4 pyrophosphate wherein M is alkali metal or ammonium.
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