# Vitamin E

> Mixed-tocopherol vitamin E from non-GMO sunflower, in honey-colored softgels: one with a meal, or one pierced by the mirror for a dry cuticle, the old-fashioned way.

Price: 17.50 USD · in stock

## About
Hold one up to a lamp and the softgel glows the color of good honey, the oil inside thick enough to coat rather than run. Pierce it and the smell is faintly nutty: sunflower, not the stronger wheat germ that used to be the standard source.This is vitamin E in its mixed-tocopherol form, d-alpha alongside its lesser-known siblings beta, gamma and delta, rather than the single synthetic dl-alpha molecule sold more cheaply elsewhere, and closer to how vitamin E actually occurs in nature. It is cold-pressed from non-GMO sunflower, not soy, and processed at low heat to keep the full spectrum intact. Tocopherol takes its name from the Greek for 'to bear', after researchers first isolated it while studying wheat germ oil in the 1920s, and it has a long-standing association with supple skin.DetailsVitamin E as mixed tocopherols: d-alpha, beta, gamma and deltaCold-pressed from non-GMO sunflower, not soyProcessed at low heat; oil-filled softgelsHow to useTake one softgel with a meal that has some fat in it. Or do as households once did and keep one by the bathroom mirror, pierced and dabbed straight onto a dry cuticle or a rough elbow, a small, old-fashioned habit that predates the capsule itself.A little bottle of honey-colored light for the kitchen shelf and the bathroom mirror.