Oral care compositions comprising hops beta acids and fluoride ions
Oral care compositions with an anticaries or anticavity effect. Oral care compositions that are have an extract from a species in the Humulus family and an anticaries drug, such as a fluoride ion source. Oral care compositions have fluoride and hops beta acid, such as from an extract from Humulus lupulus . Oral care compositions have a fluoride ion source and a hops beta acid derived from an extract of Humulus lupulus.
1. An oral care composition comprising:
(a) hops extract comprising hops beta acid and hops oils, wherein the hops extract comprises from greater than 0% to less than 2.5%, by weight of the hops extract, of the hops oils, wherein the oral care composition comprises from about 0.01% to about 10%, by weight of the composition, of the hops beta acid, and wherein the hops beta acid comprises only non-hydrogenated hops beta acids; and
(b) from about 0.01% to about 10%, by weight of the composition, of fluoride, wherein the fluoride is selected from the group consisting of sodium fluoride, sodium monofluorophosphate, amine fluoride, indium fluoride, and combinations thereof, wherein the composition is free of stannous fluoride,
wherein the oral care composition has a pH of greater than 7.
2. The oral care composition of claim 1 , wherein the fluoride is the only source of fluoride ions in the composition.
3. The oral care composition of claim 1 , wherein the oral care composition comprises from about 10% to about 50%, by weight of the composition, of calcium, and wherein the composition is free of silica.
4. The oral care composition of claim 1 , wherein the hops beta acid comprises lupulone, colupulone, adlupulone, or combinations thereof.
5. The oral composition of claim 1 , wherein the fluoride is selected from the group consisting of sodium fluoride, sodium monofluorophosphate, and combinations thereof.
6. The oral care composition of claim 1 , wherein the oral care composition comprises from about 0.01% to about 10%, by weight of the composition, of antibacterial agent.
7. The oral care composition of claim 6 , wherein the antibacterial agent comprises a metal ion source.
8. The oral care composition of claim 7 , wherein the metal ion source comprises tin, zinc, or combinations thereof.
9. The oral care composition of claim 8 , wherein the tin comprises stannous chloride.
10. The oral care composition of claim 3 , wherein the oral care composition comprises from about 1% to about 20%, by weight of the composition, of a buffering agent.
11. The oral care composition of claim 10 , wherein the buffering agent comprises a conjugate acid of the calcium.
12. The oral care composition of claim 11 , wherein the buffering agent comprises a bicarbonate ion source and the calcium comprises calcium carbonate.
13. The oral care composition of claim 1 , wherein the oral care composition comprises potassium nitrate.
14. The oral care composition of claim 1 , wherein the oral care composition comprises an amino acid.
15. The oral care composition of claim 14 , wherein the amino acid comprises basic amino acid, acidic amino acid, neutral amino acid, or combinations thereof.
16. The oral care compositions claim 15 , wherein the amino acid comprises glycine, alanine, valine, isoleucine, tryptophan, phenylalanine, proline, methionine, leucine, serine, threonine, tyrosine, asparagine, glutamine, cysteine, citrulline, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, lysine, arginine, histidine, or combinations thereof.
17. An oral care composition comprising:
(a) from about 0.01% to about 10%, by weight of the composition, of hops beta acid, wherein the hops beta acid comprises only non-hydrogenated hops beta acids;
(b) from about 0.01% to about 10%, by weight of the composition, of stannous fluoride;
(c) from about 1% to about 15%, by weight of the composition, of polyphosphate; and
(d) less than about 5%, by weight of the composition, of water,
wherein the oral care composition has a pH of greater than 7.
18. The oral care composition of claim 17 , wherein the polyphosphate comprises a polyphosphate with two or more phosphate molecules in a linear or circular configuration.
19. The oral care composition of claim 18 , wherein the polyphosphate comprises pyrophosphate, tripolyphosphate, tetrapolyphosphate, hexametaphosphate, or combinations thereof.
20. The oral care composition of claim 17 , wherein the hops beta acid comprises lupulone, colupulone, adlupulone, or combinations thereof.
21. The oral care composition of claim 17 , wherein the oral care composition comprises from about 10% to about 50% of calcium.
22. The oral care composition of claim 17 , wherein the oral care composition comprises from about 0.01% to about 20%, by weight of the composition, of a thickening system.
23. The oral care composition of claim 22 , wherein the thickening system is free of Gantrez.
24. The oral care composition of claim 22 , wherein the thickening system comprises polyacrylic acid, cellulose, a cellulose derivative, xanthan gum, a carrageenan, or combinations thereof.
25. The oral care composition of claim 17 , wherein the oral care composition comprises potassium nitrate.
26. The oral care composition of claim 17 , wherein the oral care composition comprises an amino acid.
27. The oral care composition of claim 26 , wherein the amino acid comprises basic amino acid, acidic amino acid, neutral amino acid, or combinations thereof.
28. The oral care composition of claim 27 , wherein the amino acid comprises glycine, alanine, valine, isoleucine, tryptophan, phenylalanine, proline, methionine, leucine, serine, threonine, tyrosine, asparagine, glutamine, cysteine, citrulline, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, lysine, arginine, histidine, or combinations thereof.
29. The oral care composition of claim 21 , wherein the calcium comprises a calcium abrasive.
30. The oral care composition of claim 29 , wherein the calcium abrasive comprises calcium carbonate.
31. The oral care composition of claim 21 , wherein the oral care composition comprises from about 1% to about 20%, by weight of the composition, of a buffering agent.
32. The oral care composition of claim 31 , wherein the buffering agent comprises a conjugate acid of the calcium.
33. The oral care composition of claim 32 , wherein the conjugate acid of the calcium comprises a bicarbonate ion source.
34. The oral care composition of claim 1 , wherein the oral care composition further comprises a hops extract comprising the hops beta acid and less than 5% of hops alpha acid.