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The human being, since many ages get experienced with various types of diseases influencing their health and prosperity. The effort to cure diseases has been driving in the discovery of various medications, drug and delivery systems. To get a remedial response of drug required for treatment of illness different routes of administration are taken after. Route of administration depends on sort and seriousness of the disease. For skin disorders, the topical route is generally favored. Topical drug delivery systems are such system in which direct application of a formulation containing an active pharmaceutical ingredient to the skin to obtain the localizing effect of drug .Topical drug delivery system has several advantages such as the ability to deliver drug more selectively to a specific site and prevention of incompatibility associated with gastro-intestinal. Moreover, topical deliveries by avoiding first pass metabolism provide an increased bioavailability and consistent delivery for an extended period. In topical drug delivery system, drug reaches to the site of action via diffuses out of the delivery system and their absorption takes the place of the skin. Percutaneous absorption can be improved by increasing the release rate of the drug from dosage form. The release rates of medications from topical preparations depend straightforwardly on various physical, chemical properties of the carrier and the medication utilized. Since the mid1980s, emulsion gels have been picking up significance in pharmaceutical topical semisolid dosage forms.