Human health

We are committed to accompanying our customers to develop safe and efficient human medicines for oral, topical, rectal and vaginal routes of administration, from the early stages of development to the marketing authorization and commercialization.

Human health

To deliver an active pharmaceutical ingredient, several administration routes co-exist, each presenting benefits for a targeted population. Going further in an administration route, Gattefossé can assist in perfecting a suitable dosage form to optimize drug delivery and enhance patient adherence.

Oral delivery

By far the most appreciated administration route by patients, oral dosage forms are simple for the patient yet sometimes complex for formulators. Luckily, Gattefossé develops a full range of excipients (solubilizers, surfactants) to help in enhancing the bioavailability, modifying the API release, or taste-masking the API, as well as in optimizing lubrication in manufacturing processes.

Explore the oral route

Topical delivery

Skin is the largest organ of the human body and is therefore an interesting administration route for formulators. In addition to local drug delivery for skin diseases, it is possible to achieve systemic delivery thanks to our skin penetration enhancers. To maximize patient adherence to treatment, formulation texture is key – Gattefossé large range of excipients (emulsifiers, solubilizers, thickeners…) is ideal to create a wide variety of dosage forms.

Dive in the topical and transdermal routes

Rectal delivery

Mostly known for pediatric patients, rectal delivery is nevertheless a powerful administration route for all, avoiding first-pass metabolism and achieving a fast bioavailability. It is also useful for local delivery in intestinal diseases. Gattefossé offers the wide Suppocire® range for suppository bases, guaranteeing there will always be one Suppocire® tailored to your API. Other dosage forms can be developed with our excipients, such as foams, gels, ointments…

Learn more on the rectal route

Vaginal delivery

Women’s health is an important science and Gattefossé is committed to providing the best excipients for pessaries, creams, tablets, caspules… to achieve a local or systemic effect. We have a wide precedence of use of our excipients in combination with antifungals, hormones and probiotics.

More information on the vaginal route

Animal health

In veterinary medicine oral, topical and parenteral formulations and dosage forms have specific challenges to overcome:

  • In companion animals, palatability and administration issues are key challenges in developing effective treatments.
  • In food producing animals, residue levels and delivering therapeutic efficacy with reduced dosing frequency are primary concerns.

With excellent functionality, safety and tolerability, lipid excipients provide straightforward and innovative approaches for all these challenges.

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Gattefossé offers a limited range of functional lipid excipients adapted for the development of innovative and high performance dietary supplements.

Our functional excipients are used to improve the efficacy of dietary supplements, and to facilitate the formulation and the manufacturing of solid, semi-solid and liquid dosage forms, by:

  • Protecting sensitive active
  • Modulating the release profile of the active
  • Lubricating multi-ingredient powder mixtures for compression
  • Modulating viscosity to improve finished product quality
  • Taste-masking by coating the active

Dietary supplements

Lipid excipients used in veterinary medicines include solubilizers and oily vehicles for injectable, pour-on, spot-on, auricular dosage forms. Excipients are also used in topical ointments, gels, oral solutions, pastes and tablets for both domestic and food producing animals.

Veterinary product range

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