Androgel Online, Description, Chemistry, Ingredients - Testosterone Gel

Androgel Online, Description, Chemistry, Ingredients - Testosterone Gel

AndroGel®

(testosterone gel) 1%

AndroGel® (testosterone gel) is a clear, colorless hydroalcoholic gel containing 1% testosterone. AndroGel® provides continuous transdermal delivery of testosterone, the primary circulating endogenous androgen, for 24 hours following a single application to intact, clean, dry skin of the shoulders, upper arms and/or abdomen.

A daily application of AndroGel® 5 g, 7.5 g, or 10 g contains 50 mg, 75 mg, or 100 mg of testosterone, respectively, to be applied daily to the skin’s surface. Approximately 10% of the applied testosterone dose is absorbed across skin of average permeability during a 24-hour period.

The active pharmacologic ingredient in AndroGel® is testosterone. Testosterone USP is a white to practically white crystalline powder chemically described as 17-beta hydroxyandrost-4-en-3-one.

C₁₉H₂₈O₂ MW 288.42

Inactive ingredients in AndroGel® are ethanol 67.0%, purified water, sodium hydroxide, carbomer 980 and isopropyl myristate; these ingredients are not pharmacologically active.