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Earnings Per Share (Tables)

3 Months Ended

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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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.

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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

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