10.05.23
US Patent No. 11,771,642 B2 (Kyo-Tae Moon, Ji-Hye Lee, Seong-Lok Hwang, Won-Ho Ha, Aram You); LG Household & Health Care Ltd., Seoul, was recently awarded a US patent for a transparent toothpaste composition that is designed to be contained in a pump container. The formulation is comprised of a surfactant having HLB 14-23 as a solubilizer and an abrasive. The abrasive has a refractive index from approximately 1.420 to about 1.465.