Colgate Palmolive Company

Lauren Evans

Suman Kumar Chopra

Long Pan

Ravi Subramanyam

Gregory Szewczyk

Mahmoud Hassan

Venda Porter Maloney

Iraklis Pappas

Zhigang Hao

Tatiana Brinzari

Chi-Yuan Cheng

Stacey Lavender

Paul Thomson

Neeta Atul Patel

Luciana Rinaudi Marron

Sergio Leite

Dennis Zhang

Alice Ng

Zhichao Hu

Tanaz Galiyara

In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to oral care compositions comprising a source of zinc, a fluoride source, a zwitterionic surfactant and a taurate surfactant. In one aspect the compositions of the disclosure can be used for the treatment or reduction of erosive tooth demineralization, gingivitis, plaque, and dental caries. In one aspect the oral care composition includes zinc citrate, zinc oxide, arginine, cocamidopropyl betaine and at least one taurate surfactant (e.g., sodium methyl cocoyl taurate).

Oral care compositions

Disclosed herein are improved methods for the synthesis of zinc-amino acid-halide complexes via reaction of zinc oxide and amino acid hydrochloride in a solvent comprising a polyol, as well as oral care compositions comprising said complexes made according to said method.

Methods for synthesizing zinc-lysine-chloride complex

Disclosed herein are dentifrices comprising a zinc-amino acid complex together with a thickening system comprising a non-ionic thickening agent, which have a pH greater than 8.0. Methods of using the dentifrices are also provided.

Dentifrice comprising zinc-amino acid complex

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