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Three things a compounded topical can do that a manufactured tube cannot, all of them as prescribed by your healthcare provider.
Commercial products arrive in fixed percentages. We prepare it to the strength your prescriber specifies, including strengths that fall between the commercial increments.
If you react to something in the commercial base, that is a formulation problem with a formulation answer. When the prescription allows it, we prepare the medication without the ingredient in question.
Where your prescriber orders it, more than one active can be prepared in a single preparation. One cream instead of three means one step in your routine instead of three.
The base is part of the prescription. Prescribers choose it for how it spreads, how well the skin tolerates it, and where on the body it's applied. An ointment behaves differently from a gel, and both behave differently from a foam. These are the forms we prepare and the bases behind them:
Oil-in-water emulsions
Water-in-oil or petrolatum
Aqueous or hydroalcoholic
Prepared to the written order
Prepared to the written order
Prepared to the written order
The formulations prescribers request most often include Kligman-type formulas, combination topical antibiotic preparations, corticosteroid and keratolytic combinations, and combination minoxidil preparations. If your prescription names one you don't see here, call and ask.
Our full set of standard dosage forms is on the compounding services page.
We prepare custom strengths, combination topicals, preparations that leave out a specific allergen, and base-specific formulations on your prescription. All of our compounding is 503A patient-specific and non-sterile.
One of our pharmacists will talk a formulation through with you before you write it: the base, the vehicle, the strength, and whether it will stay stable. Call (717) 626-2222 and ask for a pharmacist. That conversation is routine here. Prescriptions come in by e-prescribe, phone, or fax at (717) 626-7920.
One boundary worth stating up front: we can't supply office stock. 503A compounding is patient-specific, so each preparation needs a prescription with a patient named on it. Account setup and how we work with practices are covered on our providers page.
Your preparation is made and checked by a pharmacist you can name. Our compounding team is Chet Patel, PharmD, RPh; Vishesh Patel, PharmD, RPh; and Brian Bradshaw, RPh, who brings more than 30 years of compounding experience to the bench.
They're formulation specialists, not dermatologists. What to prescribe is your prescriber's call, and we'll talk the base and strength through with them. What we can tell you is what's possible to prepare and how to use it.
Call (717) 626-2222 and ask for a pharmacist about a specific preparation.
They can e-prescribe it, call it in at (717) 626-2222, or fax it to 717-626-7920. If the base, the strength, or the combination needs discussing, our pharmacists will talk it through with them before it's written.
Tell us if there is an ingredient you react to, or a base you have had trouble with before. We will raise anything that needs the prescriber's sign-off rather than guessing.
Each preparation is made individually for one patient rather than pulled off a shelf, so there is preparation time involved. We will tell you when to expect it when you call.
Pick up at 100 East Main Street, use parking-lot pickup, or ask about local delivery in the Lititz and Lancaster County area. Refills work with one call. Prescriptions are Pennsylvania-only.
We are at 100 East Main Street in downtown Lititz. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 to 6:00, and Saturday, 9:00 to 1:00; closed Sunday. Call (717) 626-2222 or see our contact page for directions.
Questions
It is a pharmacy that prepares topical medications individually on a prescriber's order, when the commercial product doesn't come in the strength, the base, or the combination a patient needs. Instead of dispensing a manufactured tube, we prepare what your prescriber wrote.
Yes, from your dermatologist or another prescriber. They can e-prescribe it, call it in at (717) 626-2222, or fax it to (717) 626-7920, and we'll take it from there.
Often, yes. Allergens, dyes, and preservatives can be left out of a preparation when the prescription allows it. Tell us the specific ingredient and we will tell you plainly whether we can prepare it without.
All compounding servicesWhen your prescriber orders it, yes. The practical difference is one application instead of two or three, with fewer steps in your routine.
It depends on the medication, the strength, and the base your prescriber wrote for, so there is no single number we can put on a page. Call us with the prescription details and we will walk you through it.
No. Those are sterile preparations and we don't make them. We prepare non-sterile topicals: creams, ointments, gels, lotions, solutions, foams, shampoos, and nail lacquers. If your prescriber has ordered a sterile preparation, they can point you to a pharmacy that prepares them.
No. As a 503A pharmacy, we make every preparation on a prescription for a named patient, so we can't supply office stock. We can fill patient-specific prescriptions from your practice for each patient who needs one.
(717) 626-2222, Monday through Saturday. Have your prescriber send the prescription over, or if you're a practice, ask for a pharmacist directly.
Compounded medications are prepared to a licensed prescriber's order and are not reviewed or approved by the FDA for safety or effectiveness. Nothing on this page is medical advice.