Chlorhexidine

Chlorhexidine on the U.S. market: products, makers and brands

How Chlorhexidine appears in the FDA’s National Drug Code Directory — including its dosage forms, strengths, brand names, manufacturers, and FDA-listed product records. These are directory records, not sales or prescription volume.

54 companies list 112 Chlorhexidine product records with the FDA, mostly as topical solution, mouth rinse, oral solution; the earliest marketing or approval year on record is 1976. Brand names on the directory include E-Z Scrub, Supreme, Tru-Blu C-Hex 110 and 13 more; the rest are generics.

Also listed with the FDA, not a patient dose form: Powder (8) · Kit (3) — bulk drug substance sold to compounders/manufacturers and multi-item kits. These aren’t counted in the dose-form total above.

Share of FDA-listed product records by manufacturer — FDA National Drug Code Directory. Record counts are not sales or prescription volume.

How widely Chlorhexidine is used (Medicaid data)

A general measure of how commonly Chlorhexidine is prescribed, based on Medicaid — one of the largest public drug programs. The figure below is prescriptions filled in Q1–Q4 2025, summed across every form and brand of the drug.

Think of this as a proxy for how widely Chlorhexidine is used, drawn from freely available public data. Medicaid is just one program — these numbers don’t include Medicare, other government coverage, or commercial and cash-pay prescriptions, so real-world use is higher than what’s shown here.

How commonly is Chlorhexidine prescribed? Of the 1,601 medications we measure, Chlorhexidine ranks #136 by Medicaid prescriptions — more than 92% of them.

Source: Medicaid State Drug Utilization Data (CMS), aggregated by generic ingredient — summed across every NDC (all brands, strengths, salt forms and dosage forms) of Chlorhexidine, and across all states and both fee-for-service and managed-care claims. A general popularity signal; it excludes Medicare, commercial insurance and cash prescriptions, so it is not total U.S. use. Based on the 30 of 327 listed Chlorhexidine NDCs with Medicaid activity.

Compare Chlorhexidine products

A representative set of FDA-listed product records for Chlorhexidine — across manufacturers, strengths, and dosage forms, grouped by form with each product’s manufacturer and how the FDA approved it. The same medicine may be made and packaged by different companies, so a single drug can have many directory entries. (It’s also why a refill can look different — a new shape, color, or box — even though it contains the same medication.)

Showing 112 of 112 products — FDA National Drug Code Directory. See every product, package size and price: browse all 112 Chlorhexidine NDCs →

💵 What Chlorhexidine costs pharmacies (NADAC benchmark)

The national average invoice price pharmacies pay for the drug itself, from CMS's NADAC survey (data as of Sep 30, 2026). This is a supply-cost benchmark — not a retail price and not what you'd pay at the counter.

Source: CMS National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC), a survey of retail pharmacy invoice prices. Benchmarks shown are the range across package sizes of a representative product for each form and strength — other manufacturers' products may differ.

Chlorhexidine brand names

Chlorhexidine is sold under 16 brand names in the FDA directory — E-Z Scrub, Supreme, Tru-Blu C-Hex 110, Tru-Blu Chlor Hex-Wash and others. A brand and its generic contain the same active ingredient; the brand name belongs to one company's product.

Who makes Chlorhexidine: manufacturers and labelers

54 companies list Chlorhexidine products with the FDA. By number of product records, the largest are Xttrium Laboratories, Inc., GOJO Industries, Inc., AVA, Inc.. Labelers include manufacturers and repackagers; the product in your bottle depends on which one your pharmacy stocks.

…and 30 more on the FDA NDC directory.

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