EM Product List in Bangladesh

EM is a medicine maker rather than a consumer label, and its range on Arogga runs through skin: an oral acne capsule, an acne gel, a pair of medicated bars and a scalp solution. One listing sits outside skin altogether. Every item carries an invented trade name instead of the company’s.

What can actually be delivered today is whatever the grid above is showing. Most of the range belongs to Arogga’s Dermatological Preparations shelf, and the sections below take the trade names one at a time.

The Pack Carries the Trade Name, Not the Maker

EM is two letters. Typed on its own it means a hundred other things, so almost nobody finds this range through the company name. What is printed large on the strip or the wrapper is Isoben, Tossex, Folicrez, Nofun or Scarin-A, and that is the word to type.

If a pharmacist or a doctor gave you a name and you cannot find the maker on the box, that is normal here. Start from the product word and the strength beside it.

What the EM Range Covers

The listings fall into four groups, and each group is one or two items rather than a family:

• Oral acne — an isotretinoin capsule.
• Topical acne — a skin gel, plus a tablet shelved beside it.
• Medicated washing bars — one for scabies, one unlabelled by condition.
• Scalp — a topical solution at a strength the market rarely carries.

The remaining item, Tossex, is filed on its own away from the rest. It gets a section further down because its name is shared with something quite different.

Isotretinoin, the Oral Acne Capsule

Isoben-20 capsule 20mg

Isoben-20 capsule 20mg is isotretinoin, and it is the only listing on this brand record whose generic name is actually filled in. Arogga shelves it under Oral Retinoids For Acne.

Oral retinoid means swallowed rather than rubbed on, and that difference is the reason this one is prescribed and monitored rather than picked off a shelf. Dose, duration and the checks that go with it are a dermatologist’s call.

The number after the name is the strength in milligrams. A slip reading a different figure means a different capsule, so match the digits before you order.

Isoben the Capsule and Isoben the Lotion Are Different Products

Arogga stocks a second medicine called Isoben, made by a different Bangladeshi company. That one is a lotion with several percentages in its title; this one is a capsule with a single strength after the name.

Typing the bare word brings up both. The quick way to tell them apart is the form: capsule against lotion, swallowed against applied. The strength format separates them too, because a lotion title carries a string of percentage figures and the capsule carries one number in milligrams.

Scarin behaves the same way. There is a cream under that name from another manufacturer, while the EM item is a washing bar with an A after it. Read the form word before adding either to a basket.

Valgocide and Folicrez on the Acne Shelf

Both of these sit on Arogga’s Acne & Rosacea shelf, and they are not the same kind of thing at all.

Valgocide Acne Treatment Skin Gel 15gm gel

Valgocide Acne Treatment Skin Gel 15gm gel is a topical gel in a small tube, filed under Acne Treatment. Its title spells out the format and the tube size, which is more than most of this range manages.

Searches for it come through as both gel and cream. The listing is the gel; there is no second texture under the same name.

Folicrez tablet

Folicrez tablet is swallowed, not applied, although it shares that acne shelf with the gel. Its registered title stops at the brand word and the form, with no strength and no generic.

People look for it at more than one strength, so the figure on your prescription matters here. Confirm it against the strip rather than against the listing title, which does not carry it.

The Two Medicated Bars

EM makes a pair of washing bars, both the same size, and Arogga files both under Medicated Soap. A medicated bar is used for a set period and then stopped, which is what separates it from an ordinary soap.

Scarin-A Anti-Scabies Soap 75gm

Scarin-A Anti-Scabies Soap 75gm names its purpose inside the title, which is unusual on this record and genuinely useful. Scabies is treated across a whole household at once, so a bar is often bought alongside a cream or a lotion rather than instead of one.

Nofun Bar 75gm

Nofun Bar 75gm gives you the word Bar and the weight and nothing else. Nothing in the title says what it is medicated with or what it is used for, so this is one to ask a pharmacist about before buying on the name alone.

Seven Per Cent, and the Five Per Cent on Another Record

Hair Back Plus Topical Solution 7% 60ml

Hair Back Plus Topical Solution 7% 60ml is a scalp solution in a dropper-sized bottle. Most of the market sits at two or five per cent, so a seven per cent bottle is a step above the usual rung and worth checking against what you were told to use.

Shoppers call it a spray, a lotion and a solution in roughly equal measure, and all three words land on this bottle. The applicator is the thing to look at on the listing, because it decides how the liquid reaches the scalp.

A five per cent Hair Back bottle is also sold on Arogga, under a separate brand record rather than this one. If you are comparing the two strengths, you will need to open both records to see them side by side.

Tossex and the Cough Syrup of the Same Name

Tossex

Tossex is registered as a single word. No form, no strength, no generic — the shortest title anywhere on this record, and the one most often opened.

Outside Bangladesh the same name belongs to an Indian cough syrup, which is why searches for syrups, dosing in Hindi and antitussive ingredients drift towards it. Those pages describe a different manufacturer’s product.

Buyers here ask for it as a capsule, a tablet and a cap, and spell it tosex and toosex as often as not. Whichever spelling you use, check the strip in front of you against the pack image on the listing before ordering.

What the Registered Titles Do Not Tell You

A title on this record is built from a few database fields, and most of them are empty. That is why the names read so unevenly — one spells out format, size and purpose, the next is a single word.

The form word can print twice

Arogga appends the dosage form to the end of a title automatically. Where the registered name already ends in that word, it appears twice: the acne gel reads gel at both ends. It is a display quirk, not a different pack.

The generic name is usually blank

Only the acne capsule carries its generic. For the rest, what a title gives you is:

• the trade name, always;
• the pack weight or bottle size, on the bars and the scalp solution;
• the strength, on the capsule and the solution only;
• the purpose, on the anti-scabies bar and the acne gel.

So match a prescription on the trade name and the strength, and open the listing for the pack photograph when the title stops short.

Prescription Status and Pharmacist Review

The oral acne capsule is prescription-only in Bangladesh and is dispensed against a slip. Arogga asks for that slip where it is required, and a registered pharmacist reviews the order before it goes out.

Medicated bars and topical preparations sit in a looser bracket, but a condition that needs one of them usually needs a diagnosis first. Scabies in particular is treated across everyone sharing a room, on a schedule somebody has to set.

Nothing on this page is a dose, a course length or a recommendation. Take those from the doctor who wrote the prescription, or from a pharmacist.

What Changes the Price

Across a short generic range like this one, the figure on a listing moves with:

• The strength — a seven per cent bottle and a five per cent bottle are priced apart, and they are separate records.
• Pack size — a strip, a blister of several and a full box are distinct listings of one tablet.
• Format — a gel in a tube and a bar in a wrapper cost differently to make and to ship.
• How many companies make the molecule — isotretinoin has many Bangladeshi makers, and that competition sets the band any one of them prices into.

Because these four move independently, a figure written into a page goes out of date before the page does. Open the listing itself for the one that is live right now.

About EM

EM is a pharmaceutical brand supplying the Bangladeshi retail pharmacy market, trading under the short form EM and appearing in some listings as EM International. Its products are finished medicines sold under invented trade names rather than under the company name, which is the normal arrangement for a domestic generics supplier.

The range is concentrated in dermatology. It covers oral and topical acne treatment, medicated cleansing bars including an anti-scabies bar, and a topical scalp solution, with one further preparation outside that group. Pack formats run across capsules, tablets, gels, wrapped bars and bottled topical solutions.

Distribution is through the ordinary pharmacy channel, so an EM name on a prescription is usually filled from retail stock. Its listings reach Arogga through that same route.

Buying EM Medicines Online in Bangladesh

Open any listing in the grid for the pack photograph, the stated size and the form. On a record where half the titles stop at a single word, the photograph does more work than usual.

Comparable preparations from other manufacturers sit alongside these under Dermatological Preparations and Medicated Soap, which is the quickest way to see what else treats the same thing.

Before ordering, check three things against the pack in your hand: the trade name, the strength and the form. Two names on this record are shared with other companies, so the third of those is what settles it.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Why do two different medicines here both begin with Isoben?

Two Bangladeshi companies registered the same trade name. EM’s is a capsule with one strength in milligrams; the other is a lotion whose title lists several percentages. The form word separates them.

2. Is the Hair Back bottle here the five per cent one?

The EM bottle is the seven per cent solution, in a 60ml size. A five per cent Hair Back bottle is listed on Arogga too, on a different brand record, so search the strength as well as the name.

3. The Tossex listing shows no form or strength. Where do I find them?

Those fields are blank on the record, so the title cannot show them. Open the listing and read the pack photograph, or match the strip you were given against it.

4. Do I need a prescription for the acne capsule?

Yes. Isotretinoin is prescription-only here and Arogga asks for the slip, with a pharmacist checking the order. The strength and the length of the course are set by the dermatologist.

5. স্ক্যাবিসের জন্য কোন soap-টা?

Scarin-A Anti-Scabies Soap 75gm — নামেই anti-scabies লেখা আছে, তাই চেনা সহজ। তবে scabies একজনের হলে ঘরের সবাইকেই একসাথে treatment নিতে হয়, আর সেই schedule-টা ডাক্তার ঠিক করে দেবেন।

6. ইসোবেন 20 আসলে কী?

এটার generic হলো isotretinoin, আর 20 হলো strength মিলিগ্রামে। কতদিন, কোন strength — পুরোটাই skin specialist ঠিক করেন। নিজে থেকে শুরু বা বন্ধ করার ওষুধ এটা নয়।