
Oral hygiene
At Croda we offer a range of surfactants, solvents, solubilisers and stability enhancers within our product portfolio to help develop your oral hygiene formulations.
Oral hygiene is the practice for ensuring disease and other oral health problems are avoided, through the regular brushing of teeth, and cleaning in between the teeth. It is important that oral hygiene is carried out on a regular basis to enable prevention of dental disease and bad breath.

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Explore our product portfolioOral hygiene market evolution
Growth in the oral health market has widely centred around two main categories: toothpastes and mouthwashes. Accelerated by increased consumer interest in health and wellbeing, and a greater understanding of the contributing factors of dental disease. Oral hygiene is an integral part of consumers' desire to lead a healthier lifestyle. Trends such as claiming several effects including anti-caries, anti-gum disease, anti-tartar, breath freshening, tooth whitening and reduction of hypersensitivity are widely driving consumer choice. Natural and vegan oral health options are also consumer choice driving factors.
Our oral hygiene differentiated product portfolio offers a wide range of superior attributes to meet the product premiumisation trends. Here at Croda, our extensive technical expertise can help you optimise the performance and get the best results out of your formulation development work. Our speciality chemicals provide superior attributes, such as reduced gum sensitivity, exceptional foam production and offer natural benefits, which are paramount within the oral health market.
Did you know?
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The Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 estimated that oral diseases affect 3.5 billion people worldwide. Find out more
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Oral health is considered an important part of prenatal care, poor oral health during pregnancy can lead to poor health outcomes for the mother and baby. Find out more

Why work with us?
- We are well positioned to offer the support you need to differentiate your brand where our smart science can make a huge impact on consumers lives
- Our in-house technical experts provide extensive formulation support and troubleshooting during product development
- Our regulatory specialists are practised in supporting the use of novel and innovative excipients in a variety of formulations
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Crodasinic™ LS30
Crodasinics are powerful anionic surfactants, wetting and foaming agents with proven mildness. They inhibit the enzyme hexokinase, which is associated with tooth decay and mouth odours. Used in...
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Crodasinic™ LS95 pharma
Crodasinics are powerful anionic surfactants, wetting and foaming agents with proven mildness. They inhibit the enzyme hexokinase, which is associated with tooth decay and mouth odours. Used in...
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Synperonic™ PE/F68 pharma
Synperonic PE/F 68 finds application in toothpaste and mouthwash applications due to its foaming properties. Effective solubiliser. Suited to O/W emulsification.

Synperonic™ PE/F 127
High molecular weight and high polyethylene oxide content mean PE/F 127 functions well as an O/W emulsifier and as an effective solubiliser. Synperonic PE/F 127 is often used in toothpaste for...

Synperonic™ PE/F 108
Synperonic PE/F 108 is particularly desirable in toothpaste and mouthwash applications due to its foaming properties. High molecular weight and high polyethylene oxide content mean PE/F 108 functions...

Synperonic™ PE/L 44
Effective cleansing and dispersing agent with O/W emulsification properties.

Synperonic™ PE/L 101
Synperonic PE/L 101 functions as a wetting agent and effective defoamer due to its high molecular weight and low polyethylene oxide content. Suitable for use as a W/O emulsifier.

Super Refined™ DMI
High purity liquid for use with poorly soluble hydrophilic and hydrophobic actives. Enhances the formulation and API stability in transdermal delivery systems. Recommended topical usage levels of...

Super Refined™ Petrolatum
Crolatum V is a high-purity high performance white petrolatum. By removing polar impurities including primary and secondary oxidation products by using the Super Refining™ process, Crolatum V can...

Super Refined™ P35 Castor Oil
Super Refined P35 Castor Oil is a multi-compendial, high purity castor oil derivative, resulting from the reaction of glycerol ricinoleate and 35 mols of ethylene oxide. It is intended for use in...
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OTC
We offer a range of surfactants, solvents, solubilisers and stability enhancers within our product portfolio to support your over-the-counter (OTC) formulations, such as soft gels, topical creams, suppositories, transdermal patches and syrups.
Learn morePharmaceutical solvents
Achieving API solubility is one of the big challenges faced by formulators, with many APIs having low solubility. Our range of Super Refined pharmaceutical solvents can address this challenge, providing a range of polar and non-polar solvents that not only provide solubility, but also excellent stability for APIs.
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