Vitamin A
as retinyl acetate
630 mcg RAE70% of the daily value
Below the daily value
Preformed vitamin A, the animal-form retinoid rather than beta-carotene. NIH puts the adult recommendation at 900 mcg RAE for men and 700 for women, and the upper limit at 3,000 mcg. It is the one nutrient here where the upper limit is worth knowing, because NIH warns that too much of it in pregnancy can cause birth defects.
Vitamin C
as ascorbic acid
20 mg22% of the daily value
Below the daily value
The best known of the skin vitamins, because the body cannot build collagen without it. That is a fact about your own collagen, not about collagen in the bottle. Twenty milligrams is about a third of a medium orange.
Vitamin D
as cholecalciferol
10 mcg50% of the daily value
Below the daily value
Four hundred international units, which is half the labelling Daily Value and a third of what many standalone vitamin D products carry. Relevant to skin mainly because skin is where the body makes it from sunlight.
Vitamin E
as d-alpha tocopheryl acetate
7.4 mg49% of the daily value
Below the daily value
The natural-source d-alpha form rather than the synthetic dl-alpha, which is the better of the two and worth noting since the label bothered to print which one it used.
Vitamin B6
as pyridoxine HCl
2 mg118% of the daily value
At or near the daily value
Slightly over the labelling Daily Value. B6 has an upper limit in the tens of milligrams for long-term use; two milligrams is nowhere near it.
Folate
as folate, 442 mcg DFE
442 mcg DFE111% of the daily value
At or near the daily value
Just over the Daily Value. The label prints DFE, dietary folate equivalents, which is the correct unit and more care than a gummy has to take.
Vitamin B12
as methylcobalamin
6 mcg250% of the daily value
Far above the daily value
Two and a half times the Daily Value, in the methylcobalamin form. B12 has no established upper limit and excess is excreted, so a multiple like this is ordinary rather than alarming.
Biotin
5,000 mcg16,667% of the daily value
Far above the daily value
The headline number on this panel and the reason the safety section exists. NIH puts the adequate intake for adults at 30 mcg a day. This is 5,000. Biotin is the standard hair-skin-and-nails ingredient and high-dose biotin is also the one thing in this bottle that can interfere with a blood test.
Pantothenic acid
5.2 mg104% of the daily value
At or near the daily value
Vitamin B5, a shade over the Daily Value. Widespread in food and rarely short in a normal diet.
Choline
0.04 mg0.007% of the daily value
Below the daily value
Forty micrograms, against a Daily Value of 550 milligrams: roughly one part in fourteen thousand of the reference amount. It is on the panel as a name rather than as a dose.
Iodine
42 mcg28% of the daily value
Below the daily value
About a quarter of the Daily Value. Iodine matters for the thyroid; it is not a skin ingredient, and anyone with a thyroid condition should mention any iodine supplement to their clinician.
Zinc
2.7 mg25% of the daily value
Below the daily value
A quarter of the Daily Value. NIH says zinc helps wounds heal and that most people in the United States already get enough from food, which is the honest frame for a quarter-dose.
Inositol
40 mcgNo daily value of the daily value
No daily value established
No Daily Value has been established for inositol, so no percentage can honestly be printed beside it. Where it has been studied in humans the doses are measured in grams. Forty micrograms is a name on a panel.
Two of the thirteen sit at or above their daily value, three sit close to it, seven sit below,
and one has no daily value to sit against. The chart below draws the same thirteen numbers on one
axis. Full nutrient page with sources.