This review is generally focussed on lipid-based excipients in solid oral formulations which increase its bioavailability. Several approaches have been used to deliver the drug efficiently in the body, and lipid excipients are one of the promising drug delivery systems which address challenges like solubility and bioavailability of water-soluble drugs. Lipids excipients can be tailored to meet a wide range of product requirements like disease indication, route of administration, stability, toxicity, and efficacy. This review discusses novel lipids like Compritol 888 ATO, Dynasan 114, and Precirol ATO 5 and how these can be employed for devicing efficient drug delivery models and thereby have used in cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries.Lipids can be classified in many ways, due to their different composition, nature and origin. According to with Bloor's classification, lipids can be divided into simple lipids, compound lipids, and derived lipids. Individual characteristics are not discussed in this section because they are well known.
Simple LipidsThese are those compounds which belong to heterogeneous class of predominantly nonpolar compounds such as Lecithin and Cephalins.
Compound LipidsThese are esters of fatty acids with alcohols. Compounds molecules also contain additional functional groups such as a phosphate ion, simple sugar, amino acid, sulphate ion and oligopeptides. Examples are fatty acids, alcohols, monoglycerides and diglycerides, steroids, terpenes, carotenoids.
Derived LipidsThese are those substances which are derived from simple and compound lipids by hydrolysis. Derived lipids include fatty acids, alcohols, monoglycerides and diglycerides, steroids, terpenes, carotenoids. Steroids, terpenes and carotenoids are the most common derived lipids. Some of the most important lipids are shown in table 1, [20][21][22][23][24][25].