Comment · Mon, January 9, 2023 · ND Owner
Polypodium Leucotomus seems amazing for skin
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Nebulous_Inferno · 11 points
Any chance of ND making an extract of polypodium? It appears to help most skin conditions according to examine, and it does help with my dandruff more than anything else seems to.
The stuff is currently marketed as a sort of sunscreen pill, and does appear to increase the time to sunburn by three fold (insufficient to replace sunscreen, but better than nothing, approximately equivalent to spf-15 from what I read).
/u/misteryouaresodumb, any plans to add a polypodium extract?
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
The biggest hurdle would be the lack of botanical reference materials for Polypodium Leucotomos, and the lack of compendial methods. Anyone selling it right now is basically YOLOing it without lab testing. We would have to put in the work to build our own standards and methods. We can do that, but we have a lot on our plate, so we have to balance things. Life would be so much easier for us if we just did what all these other brands do, and just sold shit without testing and hoped for the best. However, that's the very thing I have been fighting for a decade now.