diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/admin/products/products.js.coffee b/app/assets/javascripts/admin/products/products.js.coffee
index 402db8b7ff..cbca5abfcc 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/admin/products/products.js.coffee
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/admin/products/products.js.coffee
@@ -1 +1 @@
-angular.module("admin.products", ["textAngular", "admin.utils"])
\ No newline at end of file
+angular.module("admin.products", ["textAngular", "admin.utils"])
diff --git a/app/serializers/api/product_serializer.rb b/app/serializers/api/product_serializer.rb
index 9f2726cdd7..dfb82cedf6 100644
--- a/app/serializers/api/product_serializer.rb
+++ b/app/serializers/api/product_serializer.rb
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class Api::CachedProductSerializer < ActiveModel::Serializer
 
   #return a sanitized html description
   def description_html
-    d = sanitize(object.description, tags: "p, b, strong, em, i")
+    d = sanitize(object.description, tags: "p, b, strong, em, i, a, u", attributes: "href, target")
     d.to_s.html_safe
   end
 
diff --git a/app/views/spree/admin/products/_form.html.haml b/app/views/spree/admin/products/_form.html.haml
index 4e97d209cd..b41b858c42 100644
--- a/app/views/spree/admin/products/_form.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/spree/admin/products/_form.html.haml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
     = f.field_container :description do
       = f.label :description, t(:description)
-      %text-angular{'id' => 'product_description', 'name' => 'product[description]', 'class' => 'text-angular', 'textangular-strip' => true, 'ta-paste' => "stripFormatting($html)", 'ta-toolbar' => "[['bold','italics','clear']]"}
+      %text-angular{'id' => 'product_description', 'name' => 'product[description]', 'class' => 'text-angular', "textangular-links-target-blank" => true, 'ta-toolbar' => "[['bold','italics','underline','clear'],['insertLink']]"}
         = sanitize(@product.description)
       = f.error_message_on :description
 
diff --git a/app/views/spree/admin/products/new.html.haml b/app/views/spree/admin/products/new.html.haml
index a018e3784d..7d126c192c 100644
--- a/app/views/spree/admin/products/new.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/spree/admin/products/new.html.haml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
         = f.field_container :description do
           = f.label :product_description, t(:product_description)
           %br/
-          %text-angular{'id' => 'product_description', 'name' => 'product[description]', 'class' => 'text-angular', 'textangular-strip' => true, 'ta-paste' => "stripFormatting($html)", 'ta-toolbar' => "[['bold','italics','clear']]"}
+          %text-angular{'id' => 'product_description', 'name' => 'product[description]', 'class' => 'text-angular', "textangular-links-target-blank" => true, 'ta-toolbar' => "[['bold','italics','underline','clear'],['insertLink']]"}
           = f.error_message_on :description
   .four.columns.omega{ style: "text-align: center" }
     %fieldset.no-border-bottom{ id: "image" }