A Healthier You

Your family’s health is a top priority – and Dow products are vital ingredients in the pills and liquid medicines that ensure good health. Products from Michigan provide functional and active ingredients for many pharmaceutical applications.

We help you fight allergies, cardiovascular diseases, and tropical diseases by developing ingredients that are essential to today’s most effective drugs. Dow’s excipient technology leads the industry in creating time-release formulations for drugs in pill form.

METHOCEL™ cellulose ethers are used as thickeners in oral and topical liquid pharmaceuticals to help suspend and stabilize complex or multi-phase systems. METHOCEL helps slow the dissolution of tablets – which means you can take one pill, instead of three or four, per day. And it’s used in gel tablets as a key alternative to animal products.

And there’s no need to worry about a bitter taste, thanks to Dow. ETHOCEL™ premium ethylcellulose polymers are widely used in pharmaceuticals and laxatives to mask the taste and control the release of the active ingredient.