Colgate Palmolive Company

Stuart D Friedman

Abdul Gaffar

Edward Eigen

Dina I Brachman

Novel high absorption body powder compositions comprising rice hulls ground to a particle fineness such that the material passes through a 200 mesh sieve, and preferably passes through a 325 mesh sieve, as the basic and main powder constituent.

Ground rice hulls in body powders

An oral composition effective to promote oral hygiene containing as an anticalculus agent a water soluble oligomer of the formula ##STR1## wherein M is a water soluble orally acceptable cation;

Anticalculus oral composition

An antibacterial oral composition effective to promote oral hygiene containing an antibacterial antiplaque agent and an additive which reduces staining of dental surfaces without substantially diminishing the antibacterial and antiplaque activity of the agent. Bis-biguanido hexanes, such as chlorhexidine and alexidine, and quaternary ammonium salts, such as benzethonium chloride and cetyl pyridinium chloride are typical examples of antibacterial agents. The antistain additive is a water soluble oligomer of the formula ##STR1## wherein M is a water soluble orally acceptable cation;

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Stuart D Friedman