I’m looking for the cheapest form of liquid alpha tocopherol. I’ve been using Nano E on the horse I ride but it’s too expensive to give it to all 3. I’d like to start my 2 older horses on it. Has anybody done the research and come up with a cheaper form of supplementation? Thanks in advance
There are only 3 of those, Elevate W.S. and Emcelle are the other 2. Of all 3, Emcelle is the cheapest.
Why are you looking at that form, rather than a natura powder or pellet? Unless your horse has tested low enough, or has proven that regular natural E doesn’t keep his level up, he doesn’t need a water-soluble/nano-dispersed form.
microIngredients gel caps used to be the cheapest but they recently started using synthetic E, so while I haven’t done the math, that likely puts them into the “among the cheapest” and not “the cheapest”
UltraCruz Natural E is still the cheapest powder and pellet I know of.
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microIngredients switched to synthetic? Aw, rats. I’ve been using their gelcaps and loving them for awhile now.
Yep, fairly recently. You can still use synthetic, just use about 30% more, which generally eats up most $ savings over natural E
By my math, Emcelle works out to be basically the same price, if not cheaper, per IU than the Ultra Cruz.
Emcelle is $122 for 250 servings of 2000 IUs. Which works out to $0.49 for 2000 IUs. If you buy two bottles, the price goes down to $116, which is $0.46 for 2000 IUs.
UltraCruz, if you sign up for autoship of the 4lb container, is $156.70 for 158 servings of 4000 IUs. which works out to $0.99 for 4000 IUs, and $0.50 for 2000 IUs (rounding). This seems to be as cheap as it gets.
Did I miss something?
The UC is 158 days of 8000IU/day, as the feeding directions are for “1 level scoop (5.7 g) twice daily.” and where 1 scoop = 4000IU
So, $157 (rounded up) for 8x158 days (I work off 1000IU increments) makes it $.13/1000IU
If Emcelle is $107/bottle if you buy 6, and 1 bottle is 500 servings of 1000IU (1mL = 500IU and it’s a 1000mL bottle), then it’s $.22/1000IU.
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Ah, I missed the two scoops daily part. Thanks!
Yep, you math’d right, just missed their dosing 
Bummer, but thank you for letting us know! My husband was about to order more of these and would totally have missed that.
When I’m being lazy I just pick up a bottle of the d-alpha at Walmart while I’m shopping. It’s only 60 capsules so it goes fast, and sounds like the price is about the same as the Emcelle edit: UC at $.13 per 1000IU pill so no great savings, but it’s easy!
The cheapest you can get Emcelle is $.22/1000IU
$.13 is the UltraCruz Natural E
don’t know how this stacks up to emcelle
Has 400 IU per ml vs 500 but is 1/4 the price
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edited to add, even cheaper at Valley Vet
It’s too late for me to try to do the math, but that’s synthetic E, so you need around 1300IU to get roughly the same as 1000IU of natural E
It works out to 2.3 cents per ml with the VV price. At 400 IU/ml it would take 3.25 ml so total cost for 1300 IU would be 7.4 cents
so 1/3 the price
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Oops! Too-quick rereading as I prepared my post!
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