Abstract: Implements for application of styptics, cosmetics and therapeutically and/or diagnostically active substances have since long times been used with good results. Such implements are in the following referred to as applicators, which comprise a carrier in the form of a stick, a strip or the like, carrying at least at one end an amount of the substance in question.Earlier applicators suffer from the drawbacks that they are difficult to keep sterile and that it is not possible to apply accurately measured doses by means thereof. In order to improve these properties it is now provided an applicator of the kind referred to the carrier of which at least at one surface portion being provided with a thin, homogeneous layer of an active substance in a dried and liquid-soluble state.