Healthcare & Food-Personal Care

In the cosmetic industry, SOCAL® grades are widely used for their thickening effect, low abrasivity, polishing properties and alkaline pH, as well as their tendency to react with mono fluoro-phosphate salts as a caries inhibitor.

In toothpastes SOCAL® grades are predominantly used for their thickening effect and polishing effects with low abrasiveness, which is giving a good balance between polishing and cleaning effect. Regarding the hardness of PCC on the Mohs scale, SOCAL® grades only range from 3.0 as calcite to 4.0 as aragonite, which makes them a softer mineral than most alternative fillers used in toothpaste applications.
The high purity of the SOCAL® grades guarantees a high brightness of the toothpaste. The high specific surface and associated good water absorption property of SOCAL® make it an excellent functional filling agent for toothpaste.

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