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Salicylic acid 0.02 MG/MG Topical Gel [clear days ahead] — RxCUI 1251566

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic branded drug
RxCUI 1251566 Semantic branded drug · SBD ● Current RxNorm concept 1 FDA product 3 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

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🗂️ Key Facts

RxCUI1251566
Official nameSalicylic acid 0.02 MG/MG Topical Gel [clear days ahead]
Concept typeSemantic branded drug (SBD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asclear days ahead 0.02 MG/MG Topical Gel; philosopy clear days ahead acne spot treatment 2 % Topical Gel; philosopy clear days ahead 2 % Topical Gel
FDA products mapped1
Package NDCs mapped3
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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Our pharmacist-built guide to Salicylic Acid Topical: what it is, how it’s used, side effects, and interactions.

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  • It's designed to treat acne. Salicylic acid helps by loosening and removing dead skin cells that clog pores — the buildup that leads to breakouts. The multi-step system on this lab...
  • What is this salicylic acid product actually supposed to do for my skin?
  • Some mild tingling, stinging, and peeling is actually expected — that's the salicylic acid doing its job by clearing away dead skin cells. But if the burning or peeling feels exces...
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🕸️ Concept Web — How Salicylic acid 0.02 MG/MG Topical Gel [clear day... Connects

One RxCUI never lives alone. Follow the path from the raw ingredient down to the exact strength-and-form concepts FDA products carry — every stop is a real RxNorm concept with its own identifier. Hover or focus any chip for what it means.
This page's concept Salicylic acid 0.02 MG/MG Topical Gel [clear days ahead] RxCUI 1251566

Every web starts here: one RxCUI, one fixed meaning in the RxNorm vocabulary.

  1. Ingredients 1

    The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.

    • Salicylic acid 9525
  2. Brand names 1

    The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.

    • Clear days ahead 1251558
  3. Dose forms 6

    The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.

    • Salicylic acid Topical Gel 312895
    • Salicylic acid Topical Product 1157604
    • Salicylic acid Topical Gel [clear days ahead] 1251564
    • Clear days ahead Topical Product 1251565
    • Topical Gel 346286
    • Topical Product 1151122
  4. Clinical & branded drugs 3

    Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 11 of 11 stored related concepts drawn.
These are official RxNorm vocabulary relationships — how concepts name and organize the same medicine. They do not establish therapeutic equivalence or substitutability: two concepts appearing in one web is never a statement that products can be swapped.

🔀 Generic ⇄ Brand Crosswalk

The same medicine has an unbranded (generic) identity and one or more brand-name identities — each with its own RxCUI. This is a naming relationship in RxNorm, not a statement that any two products are substitutable.

Generic (Clinical) Concepts

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Salicylic acid 0.02 MG/MG [clear days ahead] SBDC · 1251563
  • Salicylic acid Topical Gel [clear days ahead] SBDF · 1251564
  • Clear days ahead Topical Product SBDG · 1251565
  • Clear days ahead BN · 1251558

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

1 product · 3 package NDCs
3 package NDCs map to RxCUI 1251566 in the current snapshot — up to 50 per page. Each linked NDC opens its full package page.
Package NDC Package Brand / generic name Labeler Marketing start
50184-1020-01 15 mL in 1 BOTTLE (50184-1020-1) clear days ahead fast-acting salicylic acid acne spot treatment Philosophy 2012-04-01
50184-1020-02 15 mL in 1 BOX (50184-1020-2) clear days ahead fast-acting salicylic acid acne spot treatment Philosophy 2012-04-01
50184-1020-03 7 mL in 1 BOTTLE (50184-1020-3) clear days ahead fast-acting salicylic acid acne spot treatment Philosophy 2012-04-01
Observed labelers: Philosophy (3) — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

🗃️ Sources & Limits

Atlas generation902fddb9-e9c1-4004-bf4c-dba4d51037c7
openFDA export observedJul 14, 2026
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Methodology2026-07-full-catalog-v1
  • A shared RxCUI does not prove interchangeability. Products mapped to the same concept are not thereby equivalent or substitutable — equivalence is a separate, product-level determination.
  • Listing here does not establish approval or coverage. Appearing in this snapshot is a data observation, not an FDA approval status or a payer coverage decision.
  • Missing data never means zero. A silent dataset (no price, no billing code, no utilization) means no observation — not that the real-world value is zero.
  • Counts describe the mapping footprint. Product, package, and labeler counts are the FDA-listed mapping footprint in this snapshot — not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.
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