Colgate Palmolive Company

Agnieszka Kocinska

Pierre Lambert

Sandra Pereira Ramos

Nadia Bueb

Joshua Schmid

Suman Kumar Chopra

Jennifer Gronlund

A whitening dentifrice composition includes a blue coloring agent, a zinc salt, and an orally acceptable vehicle. The blue coloring agent is selected from the group consisting of a blue pigment and a blue dye. The blue pigment has a blue to blue-violet color with a hue angle in the CIELAB system ranging from 200 degrees to 320 degrees. The whitening dentifrice composition provides a greater whitening benefit to a tooth surface in comparison to a dentifrice composition that does not contain the zinc salt.

Dentifrice including zinc and blue dye or pigment

An oral care composition comprising (i) basic amino acid in free or salt form, (ii) calcium carbonate, (iii) a fluoride ion source, (iv) a flavoring agent comprising less than 50% menthol, and (v) an anionic surfactant, wherein the anionic surfactant is present in an amount from 1.00 weight % to 1.39 weight % is provided.

Oral care compositions

Disclosed herein are oral care compositions comprising a high water content, sorbitol, and a thickening system chosen from carrageenan and a combination of carboxymethylcellulose and xanthan. The oral care compositions may be free of glycerin and free of water-soluble stannous ions, while maintaining a Micro Robustness Index of at least about 0.75. Also disclosed herein are methods of cleaning and/or whitening the surface of a tooth comprising applying the oral care compositions disclosed herein.

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Basel, Switzerland

Agnieszka Kocinska