Hair, Skin and Nails Strips 5,000mcg Biotin Per Serving with Folate & Vitamin D3 - 30 Servings, Gluten Free

Nobody sits you down and explains that your hair is on a hormone schedule. Oestrogen holds a hair in its growing phase for longer, and as oestrogen falls that phase shortens, so more of your hair is resting or shedding at any given moment and less of it is busy growing.

You do not notice it as loss. You notice it as the brush, the shower drain, and a ponytail that has quietly got thinner in your hand. Nails change in the same stretch and for the same underlying reason, and they tend to be the first thing you actually catch yourself looking at.

Three nutrients, and what each one is here for:

• Biotin, 5,000 mcg – the nutrient that carries the authorised claims for the maintenance of normal hair and normal skin, and the one used in the older trials on brittle nails at 2,500 mcg a day
• Folate, 400 mcg – contributes to normal cell division and to normal amino acid synthesis. Hair is keratin and keratin is a protein, so this is the raw-material side of the job as well as the growth side
• Vitamin D3, 20 mcg – exactly one full Daily Value, contributing to normal cell division and to normal immune function. It is the nutrient most people in this country run short of between October and March

VERA Hair, Skin and Nails Strips is one strip a day, any time, up to a maximum of one. Thirty to a tin. What you get for that:

• Daily support for the maintenance of normal hair and normal skin
• The two nutrients your fastest-dividing tissue leans on, arriving on the same schedule
• A full day of vitamin D, in the months your skin is not making any

💅 Nails move first, because nails move fastest

A fingernail grows about three millimetres a month, so the nail you are looking at now is roughly a quarter of the way through its life. That is why nails are usually the first thing women describe noticing, and why they are the fairest thing to judge this on early.

💇 Hair is a longer conversation

Hair grows around a centimetre a month, and what you take today only affects the fibre being built today. Nothing reaches the length already on your head. That is not a limitation of this product, it is what hair is, and it is why this is judged across seasons rather than weeks.

😬 It breaks a minority of people out

Biotin at this strength is linked to breakouts in some people, usually appearing somewhere in the first two to six weeks. It is the most common reason a biotin supplement gets abandoned, and it clears once you stop. Worth hearing now rather than working out for yourself in week three.

🔁 It works while you are taking it

Nutrition acts on the strand being built right now, so the effect belongs to the months you take it rather than accumulating into something permanent. Every honest hair supplement is a subscription in that sense, and it is better said out loud than discovered later.

This is a category that promises a great deal, so here is where this product actually sits.

• On the word Nails in the name – it is printed on the label, so it stays on the listing. The authorised nutrient claims for biotin cover hair and skin. Nails were assessed by the same process and were not authorised. What does exist is a small set of older trials on biotin and brittle nails, and that is what this page rests the nail case on. We would rather tell you which is which than let one carry the other
• On 5,000 mcg, plainly – that is roughly 166 times the amount most adults need in a day, and it is the amount on this label. The brittle-nail trials used 2,500 mcg, and there is no evidence that doubling it doubles anything. This is a category-standard strength rather than a better one, and it is stated once here rather than dressed up as a headline
• On the blood tests – biotin at this strength genuinely interferes with some laboratory tests, including thyroid, hormone, vitamin D and cardiac ones. Leave at least eight hours before a blood draw, and tell whoever is taking the blood that you take biotin. This is the single most useful thing on this page and almost nobody in the aisle prints it
• It is not a treatment for hair loss – if your hair is coming out in a way that worries you, that is a conversation for your doctor rather than for a tin of strips. Iron and thyroid are the two things most worth checking first, and both are ordinary blood tests
• It is not hormonal – three nutrients and nothing hormone-mimicking anywhere in the formula, confirmed on the label

What is left is three nutrients with their amounts printed, taken daily, in a format you will still be using in three months.

This was made for women somewhere in the change who have noticed their hair and nails before anyone else did.

It's especially for you if:

• Your ponytail feels thinner in your hand and you have not said that out loud to anyone
• Your nails split at the fingertip and have not made it past it in a year
• You have taken a hair vitamin before, got nothing from it, and never found out what was actually in it
• You would rather three nutrients you can check than fourteen you cannot
• You have blood taken more often than you used to, and you would like a brand that mentions that before you do

Three nutrients with every amount printed, 30 strips to a tin, one a day. Gluten free, lactose free, hormone free, antibiotic free, alcohol free and cruelty free. Made in India.

Chances are, this is the hair supplement you have been looking for.

It is not for you if you are pregnant or nursing, under 18, or due a blood test you cannot leave eight hours clear of.

Your order today is backed by our 90-day guarantee. If VERA isn't right for you, return it within 90 days of delivery for a full refund. Simple as that.