I received a bottle of 80 Nature's Bounty Hair Skin & Nails gummies via Smiley360 to review and share information on.
Smile360 periodically gives panelists an opportunity to qualify for "challenges" to try out products. After being declined for the Oxiclean challenge (weird because i use cleaning products a lot..) and a dentures one, this is my first challenge.
The box arrived 3-26-14 and contained the Gummies, a somewhat flimsy plastic purple compact mirror, a somewhat flimsy plastic bright pink dual side foldable nail sander, 2 elastic pieces of fabric that I think are suppose to be...hair ties according to Smiley360, and 5 sample packs that include 2 gummies and a $1 off coupon. All the accessory items have the logo on them.
I do take Vitamin D gummies on occasion, but i don't think that hair/skin/nails gummies would be something i would pick up on my own. Why not? #1. I didn't know they existed, and #2. i would not know if they would even work just looking at the bottle. But my nails are pretty rough, especially with a stressful labor intensive job that reduces freshly painted nails to mere flecks of color in under 2 hours. 15 minutes in, there are large chips. My hair i also kind of a thick tangly wreck. So we will see if I have any hair or nail improvements.
I took 2 gummies last night and 2 this morning.
The gummies are little pink circles that are strawberry flavored. There is no bad taste or after-taste, and they do taste like berry.
I went to the website and they have a wide range of products- some of which are super fruit diet pills. This concerns me as I know the majority of them are scams as they contain a very tiny percent of he product advertised- not enough to make a difference.
I have visited the Smiley360 page and like at BzzAgent, the "reviews" already up are of people lacking punctuation and spelling checkers, who haven't tried it yet, are just happy to get it, or have used it once and are gushing about how happy they are to have received it. Some are saying they think it might be working already after a use or two. Some talk about how "yummy" or "tasty" they are and at least one person says it's a great product even though they have not been taking them long enough to tell if they work yet. Those are NOT reviews. Those are people who are very happy to get free products and they seem to think that if they give a positive review to everything they try, they will keep getting more free things to try. "Reviewing" a health product, a vitamin by just saying how "yummy" it is is useless and unethical. You are not reviewing candy that is sold on taste for much less. You are reviewing a vitamin, I would not pay $20 for a bottle of candy. Would you?
I will wait until I have an opinion, and then post mine. I think the aim of these sites is less honest reviews and more word of mouth. They want you to share on your Twitter or your Facebook. I find that when people post about things like this, it is regarded as spam, and those people are removed from updates and feeds etc. I don't wish to spam people who couldn't care less, but I will share with family and friends, and write honest reviews online.
Hair ties: These are too small to loop twice- they can't hold my thick hair. :( I am using them anyways.
Mirror: Keeping it in my coffee table drawer.
Nail file/buffer: Have not used.
Here are the basics:
cost: $5.79 at Walmart, while Amazon wants about $16. unable to find a cost on website.
claims:
ingredients:
Corn Syrup, Sugar, Dicalcium Phosphate, Grape Juice Color Concentrate, Gelatin (red flag), Modified Food Starch, Citric Acid, Lactic Acid, Natural Strawberry Flavor, Black Carrot Juice Color Concentrate, Maltodextrin, Fractionated Coconut Oil (Contains one or more of the following: Carnauba Wax, Beeswax), Silica.
No Artificial Flavor, No Milk, No Lactose, No Soy, No Gluten, No Wheat, No Yeast, No Fish. Sodium Free.
Calories=15
Total Carbohydrate= 4g (1%)
Sugars=2g
Vitamin C (as Asorbic Acid)=15 mg (25%)
Biotin (as d-Biotin)=2,500 mcg or 2.5 mg (833%)
Statement:
I will update regularly any changes!
Day 2 (3/27/14): No change. Nails are still short and easily crackable. Hair still he same thick tangly mess with hairs constantly shedding. I hope it doesn't get thicker!
April 3rd- no change
April 7th (11 days in) - no change. two nails broke last night.
Note: This product has been provided to me at no cost to myself by Smile360 on behalf of Nature's Bounty.
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