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US 4,537,765 AGranted
Peroxydiphosphate toothpaste composition
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorsAbdul Gaffar, Calvin B. Davis, John J. Donohue, Debbie Moy
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Abstract
A toothpaste composition containing a peroxydiphosphate salt and optionally a fluorine-providing anticaries agent as substantially the sole oral chemically active agents, in combination with specially selected polishing material, thickeners, and humectants.
Claims20
A toothpaste composition having a pH of about 9.2 to about 10.5 consisting essentially of
- I. an oral vehicle
- II. as essentially the only oral chemically active agents,
- A. 0 to about 2 wt.% of a fluorine-providing anticaries compound and
- B. about 1 to about 7 wt. % of a peroxydiphosphate salt,
- III. as essentially the only polishing material, about 10 to about 75 wt.% of at least one polishing material selected from the group consisting of silica and hydrated alumina,
- IV. about 0.5 to about 10 wt.% of at least one thickener selected from the group consisting of colloidal silica, synthetic hectorite, poly(methyl vinyl ether/maleic anhydride), carboxyvinyl polymer, carboxymethyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose, hydroxybutyl methyl cellulose, and hydroxyethyl cellulose, and
- V. about 5 to about 75 wt.% of polyethylene glycol as essentially the only humectant.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.