Equate Stool Softener Laxative Softgel, 100 mg, 400 Count

100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.

Year 400 (CD) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Stilicho and Aurelianus (or, less frequently, year 1153 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 400 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Especially in earlier medieval periods the term often implied not only a certain status, but also that the count had specific responsibilities or offices. The etymologically related English term "county" denoted the territories associated with some countships, but not all.

The title of count is typically not used in England or English-speaking countries, and the term earl is used instead. A female holder of the title is still referred to as a countess, however.

Equate or equating may refer to:

• Equate, a brand name of Walmart
• Equate (game), board game manufactured by Conceptual Math Media
• Equate, a production joint venture in Kuwait between that country's government and Dow Chemical Company
• Equating, statistical process of determining comparable scores on different forms of an exam

Laxatives, purgatives, or aperients are substances that loosen stools and increase bowel movements. They are used to treat and prevent constipation.

Laxatives vary as to how they work and the side effects they may have. Certain stimulant, lubricant, and saline laxatives are used to evacuate the colon for rectal and bowel examinations, and may be supplemented by enemas under certain circumstances. Sufficiently high doses of laxatives may cause diarrhea. Some laxatives combine more than one active ingredient, and may be administered orally or rectally.

Softener may refer to:

• Fabric softener, a conditioner that is typically applied to laundry during the rinse cycle in a washing machine.
• Stool softener, anionic surfactants that enable additional water and fats to be incorporated in the stool, making it easier for them to move through the gastrointestinal tract.
• Water softener, removes calcium, magnesium, and certain other metal cations in hard water.
• Softener ball, a special plastic ball used to dispense liquid fabric softener in clothes washing machines that lack built-in softener dispensers.

A softgel is an oral dosage form for medicine in the form of a specialized capsule. They consist of a shell, usually gelatin based, surrounding a liquid fill. Softgel shells are a combination of gelatin, water, opacifier and a plasticiser such as glycerin or sorbitol.

Softgels are produced in a process known as encapsulation using the Rotary Die Encapsulation process invented by Robert Pauli Scherer. The encapsulation process has been described as a form/fill/seal process. Two flat ribbons of shell material are manufactured on the machine and brought together on a twin set of rotating dies. The dies contain recesses in the desired size and shape, which cut out the ribbons into a two-dimensional shape, and form a seal around the outside. At the same time a pump delivers a precise dose of fill material through a nozzle incorporated into a filling wedge whose tip sits between the two ribbons in between two die pockets at the point of cut out. The wedge is heated to facilitate the sealing process. The wedge injection causes the two flat ribbons to expand into the die pockets, giving rise to the three-dimensional finished product. After encapsulation, the softgels are dried for two days to two weeks depending on the product.

Since the 1990s, manufacturers have been able to replace gelatin in the shell with other polymers based on, for example, starch and carrageenan.

Catalent Pharma Solutions is the current owner of the RPScherer technology.

Stool. may refer to:

• Stool (seat), a type of seat without back support or arm rests
  • Bar stool
  • Footstool
• Stool, feces
  • Human feces, more commonly called "stool"
  • Stool test, the collection and analysis of fecal matter to diagnose the presence or absence of a medical condition
• Stool, a living stump of a tree, capable of producing sprouts or cuttings
• Stool (hieroglyph), an alphabetic uniliteral sign of ancient Egypt