Natural Factors Natural Factors - Liposomal Vitamin C - 500 mg, 90 sgels
Natural Factors Liposomal Vitamin C - An advanced, highly absorbable source of vitamin C that is easy to digest. Vitamin C is an essential nutrient and well-known antioxidant. It plays important roles in immune system function and collagen formation, making this vitamin critical to wound repair and maintaining healthy bones, cartilage, teeth, and gums. Standard forms of vitamin C can be difficult for the body to absorb, which can limit its effectiveness. Liposomal Vitamin C eliminates this absorption problem by enclosing vitamin C within a protective phospholipid bilayer. This allows vitamin C to remain intact during digestion and ensures rapid, efficient uptake into cells and sustained release over time.
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Why people keep reordering it
- Year-round defense
- Daily support for a resilient immune response.
- Antioxidant support
- Helps protect cells from everyday oxidative stress.
- Tradition meets research
- Time-tested ingredients in clinically informed doses.
Best suited to: plain vitamin c powder sits badly in their stomach, taking vitamin c for skin and connective tissue, has taken 1,000 mg tablets and wondered if any got in.
What the research supports
Each softgel holds 500 mg of vitamin C wrapped in a lecithin phospholipid layer. Label dose is 2 softgels a day; 90 softgels last 45 days.
Liposomal vitamin C trials typically test 1,000 mg or more a day.
- Collagen formation (evidence: strong, from mechanistic, human physiology)
- Vitamin C is the required cofactor for the enzymes that stabilise and cross-link collagen fibres as they form, which is why deficiency shows up first in skin, gums and blood vessel walls.
- Immunity (evidence: moderate, from randomized controlled trial, meta-analysis)
- Vitamin C concentrates inside white blood cells at concentrations far above blood plasma, fuelling the processes those cells use to respond to a threat. Supplementation shows the clearest effects in people whose intake was low to start with.
- Iron absorption (evidence: strong, from mechanistic, human physiology)
- Ascorbic acid taken with a meal converts plant-based dietary iron into a form the gut absorbs more easily, raising how much of an iron-rich meal actually gets taken up.
- Bioavailability (evidence: limited, from small human crossover trial)
- Small crossover trials report higher blood vitamin C after liposomal preparations than after equal doses of plain ascorbic acid, though the studies are few and small.
Read the literature: Collagen formation on PubMed, Immunity on PubMed, Iron absorption on PubMed, Bioavailability on PubMed.
Is it right for you
Worth it if
- Plain vitamin C powder sits badly in their stomach
- Part of the dose is sodium ascorbate rather than free acid, and the phospholipid coating keeps it from sitting acidic in the gut.
- Taking vitamin C for skin and connective tissue
- 1,000 mg a day keeps tissue levels saturated, and vitamin C is a required cofactor for the enzymes that cross-link collagen.
- Has taken 1,000 mg tablets and wondered if any got in
- Absorption of plain ascorbic acid drops off sharply above roughly 200 mg in one sitting, which the liposomal format is designed to work around.
Look elsewhere if
- Anyone wanting gram-level doses
- At 500 mg per softgel you would be swallowing six or more a day. A buffered ascorbate powder scoops to several grams for a fraction of the cost.
- Vegetarians and vegans
- The softgel shell is gelatin, so a sodium ascorbate capsule or powder is the way to get the same vitamin C.
- Someone who only wants to meet the daily requirement
- The requirement is 75 to 90 mg, which fruit or a cheap 250 mg tablet covers. The liposomal format only earns its price above that.
What to expect
Vitamin C produces no felt effect once your levels are adequate, so expect nothing day to day. If your intake has genuinely been low, gum and skin resilience improve over several weeks. The thing you may notice immediately is the absence of the stomach burn that high-dose plain ascorbic acid can cause.
How it compares
- Compared with a plain 1,000 mg ascorbic acid tablet
- Higher measured blood levels per milligram and much less acid load on the stomach. The tradeoff: Several times the price per gram of vitamin C, and two softgels to swallow instead of one tablet.
- Compared with buffered vitamin C powder
- Nothing to mix, no tartness, and a phospholipid carrier that loose powder does not have. The tradeoff: Powder gives you far more vitamin C per dollar and lets you dose in grams if you want to.
Product details
- Medicinal ingredients
- Vitamin C, (ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbate)
- Ingredient form
- sgels
- Strength
- 500 mg
- Servings per container
- 90
- Suggested use
- 2 softgels once daily or as directed by a health care practitioner.
- Country of manufacture
- Canada
- Independent testing
- ISURA
- Certifications
- Non-GMO, Made in Canada
- Storage
- Store in a cool, dry place
- Brand
- Natural Factors
How to take it
2 softgels once daily or as directed by a health care practitioner.
- Store in a cool, dry place away from direct light.
- Keep out of reach of children.
- Consult a practitioner if you are pregnant, nursing or on medication.
Ingredients
Each softgel contains
- Vitamin C
- 500 mg
- (ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbate)
Non-medicinal ingredients
Softgel (gelatin, glycerin, purified water, carob powder), flax oil, lecithin, yellow beeswax.
Free from
Contains no artificial colours, preservatives, or sweeteners; no dairy, starch, sugar, wheat, gluten, yeast, egg, fish, shellfish, salt, tree nuts, or genetically modified genes or proteins.
Interactions and cautions
- Medications
- Some immune botanicals may interact with immunosuppressant medication. Review with your practitioner.
- Timing
- Separate from medications by 2 to 4 hours unless directed otherwise by a healthcare practitioner.
- Pregnancy and breastfeeding
- Consult a healthcare practitioner before use if pregnant or breastfeeding.
- General
- Use only as directed. Discontinue and consult a practitioner if you experience an adverse reaction.
This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease. Consult a healthcare practitioner before use. Free certified advisors are available at 1-888-386-1211, Mon to Fri, 9am to 5pm PT.
Questions about Natural Factors - Liposomal Vitamin C - 500 mg
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- Yes. It is identical to what you would pay full price for anywhere else, sourced through our authorized supplier relationships.
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- We buy direct, with nobody in the middle taking a cut, and we sell it for close to what we paid. You see the price privately because you have unlocked the Vault.
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- Can I return it?
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