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Earnings Per Share (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
Earnings Per Share [Abstract] |
Schedule of Earnings Per Share, Basic and Diluted | For the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017, earnings per share were as follows:
| Three Months Ended
| March 31, 2018 |  | March 31, 2017
| Net income attributable to Colgate-Palmolive Company |  | Shares (millions) |  | Per Share |  | Net income attributable to Colgate-Palmolive Company |  | Shares (millions) |  | Per Share
Basic EPS | $ | 634 |  |  | 875.4 |  |  | $ | 0.72 |  |  | $ | 570 |  |  | 884.7 |  |  | $ | 0.64 |
Stock options and restricted stock units |  |  | 4.5 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 6.3 |  |  |  |
Diluted EPS | $ | 634 |  |  | 879.9 |  |  | $ | 0.72 |  |  | $ | 570 |  |  | 891.0 |  |  | $ | 0.64 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 260 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6371337&loc=d3e3550-109257 + Details
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