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
Soluplus® as Promising Polymer for Topical Film Forming Solid Solutions of Betamethasone…
This poster was presented at the PBP World Meeting 2024 in Vienna:
BACKGROUND & INTRODUCTION
Topical film-forming solutions (FFSs) represent an innovative form of sustained release dermatological dosage forms. They can be applied to the skin as solutions, gels or sprays. After evaporation of…
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Sustainable Alternatives to Petroleum-Derived Excipients in Pharmaceutical Oil-in-Water Creams
Recently, vast efforts towards sustainability have been made in the pharmaceutical industry. In conventional oil-in-water (O/W) cream formulations, various petroleum-based excipients, namely mineral oil and petrolatum, are commonly used. Natural or synthetic excipients, derived from vegetable…
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High mobility group box 1 cytokine targeted topical delivery of resveratrol embedded nanoemulgel for…
Resveratrol is a polyphenolic compound showing anti-inflammatory activity by inhibition of high mobility group box 1 cytokine responsible for the activation of nuclear factor-κB pathway in atopic dermatitis. To evaluate the efficacy of resveratrol through topical route we have developed…
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Enhancing Drug Efficacy: Gattefossé’s Expertise in Excipient Selection
About our company
The Gattefossé Group is a community of employees, all driven by a dual mission: the performance of its products and the personalized support to its customers. Gattefossé develops, manufactures and sells cosmetic ingredients and pharmaceutical excipients of natural origin for…
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Development of solid lipid microparticles (SLMs) containing asiatic acid for topical treatment of…
Solid lipid microparticles (SLMs) represent a promising approach for drug delivery in anti-acne applications. In this study, asiatic acid-loaded SLMs (AASLMs) were prepared by melt emulsification method in conjunction with freeze-drying. Comprehensive evaluations comprised particle size, %entrapment…
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Polymeric Nanohydrogel in Topical Drug Delivery System
Nanohydrogels (NH) are biodegradable polymers that have been extensively studied and utilized for various biomedical applications. Drugs in a topical medication are absorbed via the skin and carried to the intended location, where they are metabolized and eliminated from the body. With a focus on…
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Skin-friendly textures – by Gattefossé
Caring for patients
Patient preferences and needs as well as therapeutic indication should be considered at early stage of development of topical or transdermal formulations.
To increase adherence to skin treatments, it is important to consider patient’s needs, when designing the dosage…
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Topical co-delivery of tacrolimus and calcipotriol loaded nanostructured lipid carrier: a potential…
The focus of this study was to develop a Vitamin-D3 (Calcipotriol)-based Tacrolimus (TAC)-loaded nanostructured lipid carrier (NLC) for topical application to treat psoriasis. The sonication technique followed by melt emulsification was used to formulate TAC-NLC, in which Precirol ATO-5,…
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Equivalence assessment of creams with quali-quantitative differences in light of the EMA and FDA…
Abstract
EMA and FDA are upgrading guidelines on assessing the quality and the equivalence of topically applied drug products for developing copies of originator products and supporting post-marketing variations. For topical products having remarkably similar composition, both EMA and FDA accept…
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Formulation development of methotrexate lipid-based nanogel for treatment of skin cancer
Skin cancer (SC) represents a prevalent malignancy worldwide, characterized by its high drug resistance and limited therapeutic efficacy with conventional treatments. Nanoparticles have emerged as promising vehicles for targeted drug delivery, aiming to overcome these challenges and enhance…
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