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Salicylic Acid

An acid found in willow bark (Salix), from which it takes its name: Italian chemist Raffaele Piria obtained and named it in 1838. Today it is a keratolytic for acne, warts and dandruff and the starting material for acetylsalicylic acid. This family brings together the active ingredient, metabolites, labelled standards and other impurities.

Did you know?In plants it is a hormone: it helps them defend themselves against pathogens and, as discovered in 1987, it is the chemical signal that makes the flowers of some arum lilies heat up.

Salicylic AcidGo to the active ingredient →
Salicyl-AMSImpuritySalicyl-AMSCat. No. P-S008-029CAS 863238-55-5

EDQM standards 2

The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.

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