| abstract |
An edible oral cleansing and sanitising composition and the use of the composition for reducing plaque and calculus deposition in the mouth and increasing oral cleanliness and tooth smoothness. The active ingredients include surfactants, sequestrants, and protein precipitants. In the preferred embodiment, the hard candies comprise between 0.01% and 20% surfactant, especially a glyceride or alkyl sulphate, 0.01 and 10% sequestrant, especially citric acid, and 0.01% and 10% protein precipitant, especially tannic acid. |