Topical excipients play a crucial role in the formulation of pharmaceutical products intended for external use, such as creams, ointments, gels, and transdermal patches. These excipients serve various purposes, including enhancing drug solubility, ensuring stability, improving drug release, and providing desirable sensory properties.
Pharma Excipients
Topical Excipient
Microneedles for advanced ocular drug delivery
In the field of ocular drug delivery, topical delivery remains the most common treatment option for managing anterior segment diseases, while intraocular injections are the current gold standard treatment option for treating posterior segment diseases. Nonetheless, topical eye drops are associated…
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Optical Methods for Non-Invasive Determination of Skin Penetration: Current Trends, Advances,…
Information on the penetration depth, pathways, metabolization, storage of vehicles, active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), and functional cosmetic ingredients (FCIs) of topically applied formulations or contaminants (substances) in skin is of great importance for understanding their interaction…
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Topical Drug Delivery – Excipients for creams, gels, and lotions
Stable and efficient semisolid preparations with optimal skin-feel have become the desirable standard in topical and
transdermal drug delivery. Lubrizol Life Science Health (LLS Health) has long-standing experience with semisolids,
offering rheology-modifying, emulsifying and bioadhesive…
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Live Biotherapeutics: importance of formulation and lyophilization parametersand an example of a…
In recent years, probiotics have expanded from their traditional classification as “health promoting food” to the development of live biotherapeutic products (LBP). Traditional probiotics are marketed as food/dietary supplements while LBPs are drug products intended for treatment or prevention of…
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Formulation Design and characterization of Antifungal Emulgel for Topical Delivery
Emulgel is the latest generation in novel drug transport device used for manage launch of emulsion and gel for the reason of topical use. The steadiness of emulsion is increased, while it is integrated into gel. Miconazole is an antifungal drug has been used inside the remedy of dermatophytic…
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Topical delivery systems containing clotrimazole for the management of candidiasis: effect of…
WHO classified Candida albicans as one of the four critical priority fungi for public health worldwide in 2022. Conventional topical formulations commercially available for the treatment of cutaneous candidiasis are associated with low drug bioavailability at the infection site and the lack of a…
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In Vitro and In Vivo Efficacy of Topical Dosage Forms Containing Self-Nanoemulsifying Drug Delivery…
The external use of curcumin is rare, although it can be a valuable active ingredient in the treatment of certain inflammatory diseases. The aim of our experimental work was to formulate topical dosage forms containing curcumin for the treatment of atopic dermatitis. Curcumin has extremely poor…
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Polymeric microsponges: an emerging prospect in topical delivery of therapeutic agents
Skin disorders have an important psychosocial impact on the life of the affected patient. Skin disorders are usually treated by using topical drug delivery systems like creams and gels. These conventional topical drug delivery systems display various adverse effects (burning, itching, inflammation,…
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Accelerating Topical Drug Development Through Initial Excipient Selection
See the poster presented by Seppic at DDF Summit in Berlin in June 2023:
Introduction
Novel topical drug development will require multiple formulation adjustments from the initial formulation studies to the registration phase .
Common issues encountered are API chemical instability, API lack…
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Polyvinyl alcohol: Revival of a long lost polymer
Introduction
With target-oriented drug discovery and an increasing focus on specialized medicines, the manufacturing of final drug products is becoming more and more complex. The processing and formulation of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) designed with a specific target and functionality…
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