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Shareholders' Equity (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
Stockholders' Equity Note [Abstract] |
Shareholders' Equity | Changes in the components of Shareholders’ Equity for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 are as follows:
| Colgate-Palmolive Company Shareholders’ Equity |  | Noncontrolling Interests
| Common Stock |  | Additional Paid-in Capital |  | Unearned Compensation |  | Treasury Stock |  | Retained Earnings |  | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) |  |
Balance, December 31, 2016 | $ | 1,466 |  |  | $ | 1,691 |  |  | $ | (7 | ) |  | $ | (19,135 | ) |  | $ | 19,922 |  |  | $ | (4,180 | ) |  | $ | 260 |
Net income |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1,701 |  |  |  |  | 120 |
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 346 |  |  | 11 |
Dividends |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | (1,406 | ) |  |  |  |  | (16 | )
Stock-based compensation expense |  |  |  | 106 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Shares issued for stock options |  |  |  | 166 |  |  |  |  |  | 274 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Shares issued for restricted stock units |  |  | (33 | ) |  |  |  | 33 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Treasury stock acquired |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | (1,055 | ) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Other |  |  |  | 2 |  |  | 6 |  |  | 5 |  |  | (10 | ) |  |  |  |  |  |
Balance, September 30, 2017 | $ | 1,466 |  |  | $ | 1,932 |  |  | $ | (1 | ) |  | $ | (19,878 | ) |  | $ | 20,207 |  |  | $ | (3,834 | ) |  | $ | 375 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of changes in the separate accounts comprising stockholders' equity (in addition to retained earnings) and of the changes in the number of shares of equity securities during at least the most recent annual fiscal period and any subsequent interim period presented is required to make the financial statements sufficiently informative if both financial position and results of operations are presented. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 505 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=84159872&loc=d3e21463-112644 + Details
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