Kao Corporation

Minoru Nakamura

Yukitaka Tanaka

Akira Nakano

Kenji Mansho

Masaki Momura

Johshin Okada

A suppository base comprises 80 to 99 percent by weight of a lauric-type fat having a hydroxyl value of 20 or smaller and containing glycerides of fatty acids having 8 to 18 carbon atoms as the main component and 1 to 20 percent by weight of diglycerides of fatty acids having 14 to 22 carbon atoms and provides an improvement in the discharging property of a medicine contained therein.

Suppository and base thereof

A mixed acid triglyceride inhibits a hard butter from fat-blooming, having as the main acid moiety 15 to 70 wt. % of saturated fatty acids having 20 to 24 carbon atoms and 20 to 60 wt. % of unsaturated fatty acids having 16 to 22 carbon atoms.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Minoru Nakamura