| Hairtopia Hair Vitamins: A Review |
| Jane Bullock |
| Date: 11/26/2001, 1/27/2005 |
Introduction
Over the past two years
I have been the human guinea pig for many of the HairBoutique.com
product offerings. I have soaped, lathered, slathered, rubbed,
smoothed and covered by entire body in products from many of the
brand names carried by HairBoutique.com.
Anyone who knows
HairBoutique.com's Karen Shelton like I do, knows that she is
extremely ethical, honest and concerned about offering products that
provide the best value for her customers. So, when Hair Boutique
came out with the new HairTopia hair vitamins, I was curious about
how they stacked up as a product.
I volunteered to test
the HairTopia vitamins and give a fair review. Karen would
have it no other way. If any of the products that she sells at
HairBoutique.com suck, she wants to know. Either she will pass
on selling the product or will figure out how to offer an
alternative.
Now, my hair is very
thick, I keep it quite short. Whether I like it or not, I need trims
every three weeks. My hairstyle is a modified Bed Head, and after
three weeks, my spikes just don’t spike anymore. Nevertheless, I
wanted to see how my hair responded to the HairTopia hair
vitamins.
Now why, you may ask,
would anyone with hair that grows as quickly as mine does want to
test a hair growth formula? I’ll tell you why—because my
hair grows so quickly I notice changes in it right away. Not only
that, but I can also tell you that my nails and skin respond to the
formula as well. But before I tell you my results taking HairTopia,
you need to know the history behind HairTopia.
Some History on HairTopia
HairTopia was
personally developed by Karen Shelton, working with a
team of chemists around the country. She spent over a year
researching various vitamin offerings and products. She wanted
to find a way to market the best possible mineral and vitamin
product for hair, while also evaluating cost and utilization
factors.
Over the past few years
Karen has received lots of emails from people who made suggestions
on the type of hair vitamins that they would like to see available
on the market. As always, Karen listened closely to all the
suggestions.
Karen has done a lot of
research on developing hair growth products and came to
her own conclusions about how to offer a high quality product line
by creating the HairTopia line.
Although HairBoutique.com received the first shipment of
HairTopia in June of 2001, they remained in "stealth" mode
until several people (like me) could test the products, including
all the HairBoutique.com people to make
sure it was up to Karen’s own personal tough standards. The results
were truly amazing! The feedback was
incredible.
Note: HairTopia has
been used by thousands of satisfied customers and is still very
popular as of January 1, 2005.
HairTopia was recently
sent off to an independent testing lab to verify the quality and
content of the pills. As you can imagine, the HairTopia labs
was not told that secret independent testing was being done. By the
way, Hair Boutique paid a lot of money for the tests and sent
HairTopia to a lab in a different state, so they know they are
getting a fair assessment. The results were very good. This is
just another way that Karen is making sure that Hair Boutique is
selling the best product possible.
As I said, Karen takes
these things very seriously. She regards HairBoutique.com
visitors like family and she only wants to sell them the best
possible products.
Evaluation of HairTopia
HairTopia is a standard sized capsule that was designed to be
easy to swallow. It has also been designed to be easily
absorbed into the body. It does not contain fillers or binders and
it uses the easiest to digest capsule container.
Some people have said
that they don't digest tablets as well as capsules. With this
in mind, Karen made sure that HairTopia was developed as an
easy-to-swallow, easy-to-digest capsule. It has the additional
advantage of being easily opened so that you can pour the powder
into a protein mix or juice. Yes, it is more expensive to make
capsules, but she wanted to offer the option of a product that was
in capsule form. This seemed like the first and most important
feature of the product.
Studies have shown that
if someone has a digestive problem they might not digest tablets as
well as the easier to digest capsules. There is also a difference in
the type of capsules and how well they can be digested. So as
you can imagine, Hair Boutique selected capsules that have the
highest known digestive rate. This means the vitamins and nutrients
will be more efficiently absorbed into the body.
Historically vitamins
have been proven to work very well for the majority of the people
that take it. However, as usual, Karen wanted to have the
highest success rate possible. She was told by the chemists
that helped develop HairTopia that the capsule model would work even
better for some people than the tablet.
How Does HairTopia Work?
 HairTopia
is designed around a program that includes Vitamins & Minerals,
Amino Acids and Herbal Plus.
You can purchase the Basic
Plan that includes an introduction to the program with a 30
day supply of the vitamins and minerals and the amino acids.
Take 2 of the Vitamins & Minerals and 6 of the amino acids every
day for 30 days.
You can also buy
HairTopia with the Herbal
Plus which is chock full of great herbs that help with hair
growth.
Karen also had all of
the HairTopia vitamins evaluated separately and dosages were
adjusted for HairTopia to make them as efficient as possible for
helping with the growth of hair. The amino acid formula is top
of the line and MSM was added to the product. MSM has proven
very helpful for hair and skin problems.
HairTopia offers people
a lot of new options for easier consumption, quicker absorption,
high quality amino acids and more herbs and vitamins. The
product was also designed to minimize niacin flushing which can
sometimes happen when vitamins with a niacin are taken on an empty
stomach.
For additional
questions about HairTopia e-mail the great HairBoutique.com Customer
Care team (customer-care@hairboutique.com). The good folks
that work at HairBoutique.com love to
answer any concerns you have about this fabulous vitamin. Many have
taken the product personally and have an inside view of how it
works. HairTopia
comes with a 45 day money back guarantee because HairBoutique.com
really believes in this product.
How I Tested HairTopia
I started taking HairTopia on 10/4 (the day after my last trim).
The first thing I noticed is how easy the capsules are to take! I
just took them along with my regular morning and afternoon vitamin
routine, and had no problems swallowing them. Also they did not
upset my stomach. I sometimes forgot to eat first before I pop
my vitamins and the HairTopia did not ever upset my stomach.
The second thing I noticed is that within a few days I needed to
trim my nails. Now as a rule, I generally do the manicure/pedicure
thing every other Sunday night in front of reruns of The Sopranos
(they don’t mind). Well, I wasn’t due to do it until the
following Sunday, but lo and behold on 10/7, I really needed to do
the nail thing! And the following Sunday, I had to do it all over
again. Something else, too—you know how you often have buff the
tops of your nails because they get rough? Mine haven’t since I’ve
been taking HairTopia.
I also noticed that my hair looked a lot shinier. I was driving
to work on a sunny day, and at a red light I looked in my rearview
mirror. Wow! It wasn’t my imagination, or my sparkly earrings—my
hair definitely looked shinier than ever.
Then, on 10/18, I went in for a hair trim a week earlier than
usual. Mind you, I was every bit as overgrown in two weeks as I
usually am in three weeks! In fact, my stylist (the famous Shelley
Pryor) asked me what in the heck I’d been doing to grow so much
hair in two weeks! She told me while trimming it that it felt even
thicker than before.
I also want to report that my skin is looking better, too. When
the weather starts changing from hot to cool to cold, I generally
suffer a few unwelcome eruptions. However, my skin has made a smooth
transition since taking HairTopia.
Coincidence? I think not.
So there you have it—one woman’s view of HairTopia hair vitamins.
From my own experience and fieldwork on both, I say that HairTopia
is a superior products, and do what they promise. I personally found
HairTopia very easy for me to take. I prefer capsules to tablets
anyway; I take a lot of vitamins and herbal supplements, and I
always seek out the capsule form when I can get it. (Trust me—you
just haven’t lived until you’ve tried to swallow a big tablet
and have it stick sideways in your throat!)
If you are looking to grow your hair faster, and have healthier and
shinier hair, you might consider HairTopia to help. You may also
experience the improved growth of your nails as I did, plus better
skin tone. My hair grew so fast that I shudder to think of what
would happen if I gave up my signature short style and just let it
grow. Anyone remember Gilda Radnor playing Roseann Roseannadanna on
the original Saturday Night Live? Well, if you do, than picture me
with that shoulder-length pyramid ‘do!
Jane’s
Rating
On my own scale of
1-10, 10 being the best, I give HairTopia a big 10!
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