What we make
In whatever form works for you
The form your medicine takes matters as much as what’s in it. If you can’t swallow a pill, can’t keep one down, or need the medicine on one particular spot, we can make it a completely different way.
What changes
Made to order
Your medicine is compounded for your prescription, not pulled off a shelf.
Several medicines in one
Instead of three or four separate tubes and bottles, we can put them all into a single cream, capsule or liquid. One thing to remember instead of four, which is usually the difference between sticking with a treatment and giving up in week three.
Strengths you can’t buy
Manufacturers make only a handful of fixed strengths. If your doctor wants to start you low or taper you down slowly, we can make the exact dose they prescribe, without waiting for a manufacturer to happen to sell it.
Made without the irritants
A dye, a preservative, lactose, gluten, or a capsule you just can’t swallow. We can leave the ingredient out or change the form completely: a tablet becomes a liquid, a pill becomes a cream.
The base
Half the prescription is what it’s mixed into
Two prescriptions with exactly the same ingredients, at exactly the same strengths, can work completely differently depending on what they’re mixed into.
That carrier, which pharmacists call the base, decides how much of the medicine actually gets through your skin, how long it stays there, how it feels when you put it on, and how long it keeps. A quick-drying gel is right for a scalp. A thick ointment that seals in moisture is right for cracked skin. And some ingredients break down in water, so they have to go into a base with no water in it at all.
Your doctor chooses the base, and a pharmacist checks that the ingredients stay stable in it. If the two don’t match up, we call your doctor and sort it out before we make anything.
Prescribers can leave the base to us: write “pharmacist’s choice” and we’ll pick one that keeps the ingredients stable. More for prescribers.
Specialties
Who sends us prescriptions
Doctors send us prescriptions for skin conditions, pain, weight management, hormone therapy and more. Not sure whether we can make what you need? Call us. A pharmacist will tell you in a minute, not a week.
Ready when your doctor is
Send us a prescription you already have, or tell us who your doctor is and we’ll get in touch with them.