Abstract

Sinchana S. Bhat, Deekshitha K.* and A. R. Shabaraya

ABSTRACT

Topical drug delivery is a convenient mode of drug delivery to treat localized infections. They are generally applied for the purpose as antiseptics, antifungal agents, skin emollients, and protectants. Topical medications are available in many dosage forms, such as creams, ointments, gels, pastes, and lotions. They have disadvantages like stability problems, stickiness and lesser spreading coefficient, irritation, allergic reactions, poor permeability, poor absorption and difficulty in absorption of large molecule, to rectify this the new concept of Emulgel has been introduced with the main objective to deliver hydrophobic drug molecule. Hence a hydrophobic drug like dexamethasone can be formulated as emulgel in order to treat skin disease like contact dermatitis.