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Washington Wentworth Sheffield (April 23, 1827 – November 4, 1897) was an American dental surgeon best known for inventing modern toothpaste in the 1870s. With the help of his son Lucius T. Sheffield, he was also the first to sell the paste in collapsible tubes.
The inclusion of sweet-tasting but toxic diethylene glycol in Chinese-made toothpaste led to a recall in 2007 involving multiple toothpaste brands in several nations. [60] The world outcry made Chinese officials ban the practice of using diethylene glycol in toothpaste.
Close-Up: marketed by Unilever, [12] it was launched in 1967 and was the first gel toothpaste in the world. [13] Colgate: marketed by Colgate-Palmolive, it is the first toothpaste in a collapsible tube, introduced in 1896, after having been sold in glass jars since 1873. [14]
The first advertisement published for Dr. Sheffield's Crème Angelique Dentifrice (the first commercial toothpaste) toothpaste appeared in the New London Telegram on March 12, 1881. [3] In 1986, the company was purchased by the Faria family, who continue to operate in New London, Connecticut. [4]
In 1960 Crest became the first toothpaste to be endorsed by the American Dental Association as an effective decay-preventing agent. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1959 he cowrote one of the first widely used textbooks of college chemistry titled General Chemistry , which was published in six editions.
PHOTO: Tom's of Maine toothpaste is seen on a shelf, March 28, 2006, in Kennebunk, Maine. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
In 1896, the company sold the first toothpaste in a tube, named Colgate Ribbon Dental Cream (invented by dentist Washington Sheffield). Also in 1896, Colgate hired Martin Ittner and under his direction founded one of the first applied research labs. [4] By 1908, they initiated mass sales of toothpaste in tubes.
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