• Sachin H Bhaware
• Vikrant P Wankhade
• Sandeep C Atram

When compared with other routes of drug delivery systems, Topical Drug Delivery system is the simplest and effective way of drug administration which can be used to give local as well as systemic therapeutic effect. It provides patient compliance and is easy to discontinue the therapy at any time by removing the formulation from the application site. But the preparations have certain physiological and physicochemical limitations such as hydrophobic nature of the drug, partition coefficient etc. which affect the absorption of the drug through the skin. Some of these limitations can be overcome by formulation of Emulgel. Emulgel is a novel approach for topical drug delivery in which the emulsion preparation that may be oil in water or water in oil type is incorporated into the gel base. The Emulgel has properties such as being thixotropic, greaseless, easily spreadable, non-staining etc. which makes it better patient compliance and better therapeutic action. As the emulsion is incorporated into Gel, emulgel shows increase in bioavailability of the hydrophobic drugs also. Due to all these advantages, emulgel preparations are being popular choice for topical drug delivery for different kinds of therapeutic actions. This review article gives a comprehensive information about the advantages of emulgel over other topical preparations along with its formulation and evaluation methods.

Emulgel, Topical Drug Delivery System, Emulsion, Gel based Emulsion, Spreadability

"A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW ON EMULGELS FOR NOVEL TOPICAL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no.d240-d259, May-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205449.pdf

"A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW ON EMULGELS FOR NOVEL TOPICAL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no. ppd240-d259, May-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205449.pdf