Review: Hydrotropy as Prominent Approach for Enhancement of Aqueous Solubility of Drugs

Authors

  • Maseera Rizwan Kazi Department of Pharmaceutics, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Tal. Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India
  • Sanket Gandhi Department of Pharmaceutics, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Tal. Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4115-1134
  • Shubham V. Desai Department of Pharmaceutics, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Tal. Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6386-4290
  • Rohan Barse Department of Pharmaceutics, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Tal. Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-0977
  • Vijay Jagtap Department of Pharmaceutics, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Tal. Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7056-3333

Abstract

Solubility is crucial element to achieve the desired drug absorption in the total pharmacological response. Low water solubility can considerably limit the medication efficacy, and to improve aqueous solubility, a variety of approaches are employed. The capacity which increases water solubility for particular drug can thus be a useful tool for enhancing efficiency and/or decreasing negative effects. This is true for parental administered, topically applied and orally consumed solutions. It is a difficult work for researchers and pharmaceutical scientist to use solubility features in bioavailability, pharmacological effect and solubility enhancement of diverse weakly soluble substance. Hydrotropy is one of the strategies for increasing solubility. The purpose of this paper is to examine the hydrotropy Solubilization technique and to highlight the mechanism and different prospective of this method.

Keywords: Hydrotropy, mechanism, formation of hydrotropes, Solubility

Keywords:

Hydrotropy, mechanism, formation of hydrotropes, Solubility

DOI

https://doi.org/10.22270/jddt.v12i4.5461

Author Biographies

Maseera Rizwan Kazi, Department of Pharmaceutics, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Tal. Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India

Department of Pharmaceutics, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Tal. Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India

Sanket Gandhi, Department of Pharmaceutics, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Tal. Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India

Department of Pharmaceutics, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Tal. Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India

Shubham V. Desai, Department of Pharmaceutics, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Tal. Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India

Department of Pharmaceutics, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Tal. Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India

Rohan Barse, Department of Pharmaceutics, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Tal. Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India

Department of Pharmaceutics, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Tal. Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India

Vijay Jagtap, Department of Pharmaceutics, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Tal. Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India

Department of Pharmaceutics, Yashwantrao Bhonsale College of Pharmacy, Tal. Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India

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2022-07-20
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Kazi MR, Gandhi S, Desai SV, Barse R, Jagtap V. Review: Hydrotropy as Prominent Approach for Enhancement of Aqueous Solubility of Drugs. J. Drug Delivery Ther. [Internet]. 2022 Jul. 20 [cited 2026 May 11];12(4):231-6. Available from: https://www.jddtonline.info/index.php/jddt/article/view/5461

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Kazi MR, Gandhi S, Desai SV, Barse R, Jagtap V. Review: Hydrotropy as Prominent Approach for Enhancement of Aqueous Solubility of Drugs. J. Drug Delivery Ther. [Internet]. 2022 Jul. 20 [cited 2026 May 11];12(4):231-6. Available from: https://www.jddtonline.info/index.php/jddt/article/view/5461