Table 1.
In-House Trials of Acyclovir Cream Formulations
| Ingredients | Quantity (% w/w) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F1 | F2 | F3 | F4 | F5 | F6 | |
| Acyclovir | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Cetostearyl alcohol | 6.75 | 6.75 | 6.75 | 6.75 | 6.75 | 6.75 |
| Sodium lauryl sulfate | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.75 |
| Liquid paraffin | 5 | 5 | 5 | 12.5 | 5 | 5 |
| White soft paraffin | 12.5 | 12.5 | 12.5 | 5 | 12.5 | 12.5 |
| Poloxamer 407 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Propylene glycol | 40 | — | 60 | 40 | — | — |
| Polyethylene glycol 200 | — | — | — | — | 40 | — |
| Polyethylene glycol 4000 | — | — | — | — | — | 40 |
| Purified water | q.s. | q.s. | q.s. | q.s. | q.s. | q.s. |