Abstract: The treatment of cooking oils and fats with specific types of calcium silicate-based materials to prolong the useful life of such oils and fats within restaurant settings is provided. More particularly, such an invention encompasses the utilization of calcium-based aluminosilicate materials to filter such oils and/or fats or the incorporation of calcium silicate with or within previously utilized cooking oil filter materials (such as magnesium silicate) for the same purpose. Such calcium silicate-based materials and treatments therewith aid to remove greater amounts of free fatty acids after such oils and/or fats have been utilized to fry foodstuffs, as well as reduce the amount of additional oil and/or fat potentially necessary to bring the used oils and/or fats up to a level of permitted further utilization within a restaurant environment.

Abstract: Unique dentifrices comprising unique abrasive biogenic silica materials are provided. Such compositions exhibit excellent abrasive characteristics, either alone, or in combination with other types of abrasives. In such combinations (with precipitated silica materials, as one example), simultaneously high pellicle film cleaning properties and moderate dentin abrasion levels are possible in order to accord the user a dentifrice that effectively cleans tooth surfaces without detrimentally abrading such surfaces, even at low levels of such biogenic silica additives. Such biogenic silica particles thus surprisingly accord beneficial properties within dentifrice compositions. Encompassed within this invention is the method of utilizing such biogenic silica products within dentifrices, either as the majority abrasive component, or in combination with any other type of commonly used abrasive material.

Abstract: Unique dentifrices comprising unique abrasive biogenic silica materials are provided. Such compositions exhibit excellent abrasive characteristics, either alone, or in combination with other types of abrasives. In such combinations (with precipitated silica materials, as one example), simultaneously high pellicle film cleaning properties and moderate dentin abrasion levels are possible in order to accord the user a dentifrice that effectively cleans tooth surfaces without detrimentally abrading such surfaces, even at low levels of such biogenic silica additives. Such biogenic silica particles thus surprisingly accord beneficial properties within dentifrice compositions. Encompassed within this invention is the method of utilizing such biogenic silica products within dentifrices, either as the majority abrasive component, or in combination with any other type of commonly used abrasive material.