page_title: Sheffield Pharmaceuticals
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Sheffield Pharmaceuticals / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Sheffield's First Toothpaste - Crème Angèlique
context_page_description: Sheffield Pharmaceuticals is a manufacturer of over the counter pharmaceutical products to retailers in the United States. It manufactures and sells products both under its own labels and privately for other companies, and is an FDA registered cGMP facility. The company was founded in 1880 as the Sheffield Dentifrice Company by Washington Sheffield, the inventor of modern toothpaste.
context_section_description: Sheffield was a respected dentist and dental surgeon of his time. In the mid 1870s, he thought of a new tooth cleaning product in a cream form as a replacement for the tooth powders common at the time. He made his own dental cream in his office, added mint extracts to it so as to improve the flavor, and used it on his patients who expressed their liking for it. After establishing his company in 1880, with the help of his son, he constructed a manufacturing plant on his property to produce a mouthwash he had previously invented as well as the new toothpaste (which was then called “Dr. Sheffield’s Crème Angelique Dentifrice”).
  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.
  In 1986, the company was purchased by the Faria family, who continue to operate in New London, Connecticut.
  In 2016, Sheffield began distribution in China of its Dr. Sheffield's brand toothpaste.
caption: Dr. Sheffield's Crème Angelique Dentifrice
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