Clay has been used for medicinal purposes by indigenous cultures since pre-historic times. It is commonly used as an excipient in skin products like lotions and pastes due to its abrasive, adsorbent, and stabilizing properties. Clay is one of the most versatile minerals with over 10,000 years of applications, and new uses continue to be discovered each year.

2. Clay
Medicinal
Clay is renowned to have many
uses in promoting health in plants,
animals and humans.
Calcium Bentonite, Pascalite, and
other types of healing clays, have
been used by indigenous cultures
since before recorded history

3. Pharmaceutical
raw materials
include both active
pharmaceutical
ingredients (APIs)
and inactive
ingredients or
excipients.
APIs are bulk
drugs that are
pharmaceutically
active and
generate a desired
pharmacological
effect, whereas,
excipients are
pharmacologically
inactive
substances that
are generally used
as a carrier of the
API in the drug.

4. What is an Excipient?

7. Examplesofcommonly
usedexcipients

11. Clays are used as excipients in skin
dosage forms such as pastes,
poultices, liniments, lotions,
suspensions, etc. For example, kaolin
and bentonite are included in “Titanium
dioxide paste” and “calamine lotion”,
respectively (USP 42 –NF 37). Clay
minerals act as abrasive, adsorbent,
anticaking, opacifying agents,
stabilizers, etc.

16. None of the material obtained from the earth has more uses
than clay, and only flint was used by humans earlier than clay.
Mankind has discovered the application of clay 10,000 years
ago, and new uses have emerged every year. In fact, clay is
arguably one of the most important minerals in the world.

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