Toothpaste-Grade Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC)
Premium Binder & Stabilizer for Advanced Oral Care Formulations
Overview
Sentai’s toothpaste-grade CMC is a high-purity cellulose derivative engineered to deliver exceptional thickening, binding, and stabilizing performance in oral care products. With ultra-low impurities and strict compliance with global safety standards, it ensures superior texture, stability, and user experience in toothpaste, gels, and whitening pastes.
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| Cellulose Gum E466 | Toopaste Grade CMC |
Key Functions & Benefits
✅ Optimal Rheology Control
• Creates smooth, non-stringy textures with consistent viscosity (adjustable 800–5,000 mPa·s).
• Prevents phase separation and ensures uniform dispersion of abrasives (e.g., silica) and actives (e.g., fluoride).
✅ Enhanced Stability
• pH-resistant (4.0–10.0): Maintains performance in fluoride, whitening, or herbal formulations.
• Salt-tolerant: Compatible with potassium nitrate (sensitivity relief) and zinc citrate (anti-tartar agents).
✅ Superior Mouthfeel
• Delivers a creamy, non-gritty texture for premium brushing experience.
• Improves foam structure without compromising rinseability.
✅ Clean-Label Compatibility
• Non-GMO & Vegan-friendly: Replaces synthetic thickeners (e.g., carbomer).
• Biodegradable: Red environmental footprint.
Technical Specifications
Parameter | Specification |
Appearance | Ultra-fine white powder |
Purity | ≥99.5% (heavy metals ≤10 ppm) |
Viscosity (1% sol.) | 800–5,000 mPa·s (customizable) |
Moisture | ≤8% |
pH (1% solution) | 6.5–8.5 |
Particle Size | 95% through 200 mesh |
Application Guidance
• Recommended Dosage: 0.8–1.5% of total formulation.
• Process: Disperses instantly in water/glycerin base; hydrate at 40–50°C for full viscosity development.
• Synergies: Works seamlessly with sorbitol, xanthan gum, and carrageenan.
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Toothpaste Grade CMC is a high-purity carboxymethyl cellulose product developed for oral care formulations, including toothpaste, gels, and whitening pastes. It is used as a binder, thickener, and stabilizer to help improve texture, viscosity consistency, formulation stability, and user experience.
With thickening, binding, stabilizing, and rheology control functions, Toothpaste Grade CMC helps oral care products maintain a smooth appearance, stable structure, and comfortable mouthfeel during use.
Parameter | Specification |
|---|---|
Appearance | Ultra-fine white powder |
Purity | ≥99.5% |
Heavy Metals | ≤10 ppm |
Viscosity, 1% solution | 800–5,000 mPa·s, customizable |
Moisture | ≤8% |
pH, 1% solution | 6.5–8.5 |
Particle Size | 95% through 200 mesh |
Toothpaste Grade CMC supports oral care formulations through viscosity control, stabilization, dispersion, and texture improvement.
Creates smooth and non-stringy textures
Helps maintain consistent viscosity
Prevents phase separation
Supports uniform dispersion of abrasives and active ingredients
Maintains performance in fluoride, whitening, or herbal formulations
Provides compatibility with potassium nitrate and zinc citrate
Delivers a creamy and non-gritty texture
Improves foam structure without compromising rinseability
Can replace synthetic thickeners such as carbomer
Supports biodegradable formulation needs
Toothpaste Grade CMC helps create smooth, non-stringy textures with consistent viscosity. The viscosity range can be adjusted from 800 to 5,000 mPa·s, allowing formulators to choose a suitable grade according to different toothpaste or gel formulation requirements.
It also helps prevent phase separation and supports uniform dispersion of abrasives, such as silica, and active ingredients, such as fluoride. This makes it suitable for oral care products that require stable structure, good flow behavior, and consistent appearance.
Toothpaste Grade CMC maintains performance across a pH-resistant range of 4.0–10.0, making it suitable for fluoride, whitening, and herbal formulations. It also offers salt tolerance and is compatible with potassium nitrate and zinc citrate, which are commonly used in sensitivity relief and anti-tartar formulations.
By supporting formula stability, Toothpaste Grade CMC helps oral care products maintain uniform texture and performance during production, storage, and use.
In toothpaste and gel formulations, texture directly affects user experience. Toothpaste Grade CMC helps deliver a creamy, non-gritty texture for a premium brushing experience. It also improves foam structure while maintaining rinseability, helping the product feel smooth and comfortable during brushing.
Toothpaste Grade CMC is suitable for clean-label formulation needs. It is non-GMO and vegan-friendly, and can be used to replace synthetic thickeners such as carbomer. It is also biodegradable, supporting formulations that consider environmental footprint.
Toothpaste Grade CMC can be used in toothpaste, gels, and whitening pastes.
The recommended dosage is 0.8–1.5% of the total formulation.
Toothpaste Grade CMC disperses in a water/glycerin base and can be hydrated at 40–50°C for full viscosity development.
Toothpaste Grade CMC works with sorbitol, xanthan gum, and carrageenan in oral care formulations.
Learn how Toothpaste Grade CMC supports texture control, stabilization, dispersion, and mouthfeel improvement in oral care formulations.
Sentai provides customized CMC solutions according to client requirements. For toothpaste, gels, and whitening paste formulations, different products may require different viscosity, particle size, solubility, rheological behavior, and formulation stability.
Based on the customization service, CMC specifications can be adjusted according to application needs, including DS, viscosity, particle size, and specialized performance requirements such as enhanced solubility. The available customization range includes DS from 0.4 to 1.5, viscosity from 20 to 10,000 mPa·s, and particle size from 10 to 300μm.
For oral care formulations, customers may need specific viscosity performance, dispersion behavior, hydration conditions, or compatibility with ingredients such as sorbitol, xanthan gum, carrageenan, potassium nitrate, zinc citrate, silica, or fluoride. Sentai can work with customers through collaborative development, application testing, and process optimization to help match the product with formulation and production requirements.
From specification adjustment to product testing and delivery, Sentai provides technical support and full-process quality control to support customized CMC products for oral care applications.
Toothpaste Grade CMC is a high-purity carboxymethyl cellulose product used in toothpaste, gels, and whitening pastes. It works as a binder, thickener, and stabilizer in oral care formulations.
Toothpaste Grade CMC helps improve thickening, binding, stabilization, rheology control, abrasive dispersion, texture, foam structure, and rinseability in toothpaste formulations.
The listed viscosity range is 800–5,000 mPa·s for a 1% solution, and the viscosity can be customized according to formulation requirements.
The recommended dosage is 0.8–1.5% of the total formulation.
Toothpaste Grade CMC disperses in a water/glycerin base and can be hydrated at 40–50°C for full viscosity development.
Yes. Toothpaste Grade CMC maintains performance in fluoride, whitening, and herbal formulations, with pH resistance from 4.0 to 10.0.
Yes. It works with sorbitol, xanthan gum, and carrageenan. It is also compatible with potassium nitrate and zinc citrate.
Yes. Toothpaste Grade CMC helps prevent phase separation and supports uniform dispersion of abrasives such as silica and active ingredients such as fluoride.
Yes. Sentai can customize CMC specifications according to client requirements, including DS, viscosity, particle size, solubility, and formulation performance needs.
Yes. Sentai provides technical support, collaborative development, application testing, process optimization, and full-process quality control for customized CMC solutions.
Toothpaste-Grade Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC)
Premium Binder & Stabilizer for Advanced Oral Care Formulations
