How it works
A strip is a film, and it dissolves.
About thirty seconds on the tongue, no water, and every amount printed on the tin. That is the whole mechanism. This page is the long version, including the parts we will not claim.
The object
Pullulan, pressed paper-thin.
The film is pullulan, a polysaccharide made by fermenting starch, the same material used in breath strips and vegetarian capsule shells. Cellulose gives it body, with mannitol alongside on four of the eleven. Stevia makes it taste like something, with monk fruit on six of the eleven. The actives are dispersed through the film, and their amounts are printed on the tin.
Every active, with its amount. No proprietary blends.
30
strips in a tin
Printed on every tin. One a day makes a tin last a month.
30sec
to dissolve, give or take
What the film does on the tongue, on every one of the eleven formulas. We have used them all. It is a stopwatch figure and nothing else: it says when the film is gone, not what happens afterwards.
$1
a day, near enough
$30.00 a tin, thirty strips in it. That is the entire arithmetic.
Three steps, and one of them is waiting
Open, place, wait.
Nothing to measure and nothing to rinse down. If you have ever peeled a stamp off a sheet, you already know the hand movement.
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Open the tin.
Push the lid back. The strips sit in a stack, each about the size of a postage stamp. Take the top one with dry fingers. The film starts to go the moment it meets moisture, and that includes damp hands.
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Put one on your tongue.
Under it or on top of it, whichever you prefer. Then close your mouth and stop thinking about it. There is nothing to swallow and nothing to chase it down with.
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Wait about thirty seconds.
This is the part people find odd the first time. It goes from a film to nothing, and the flavor goes with it: cranberry, mango or chocolate, depending on which tin you opened. Then you carry on with your morning.
The label
Every active carries its own number.
A supplement label can be written two ways. One prints each active and the amount of it. The other prints a blend name and one total, which tells you the sum of things you cannot see the parts of. Every XYNE tin is written the first way.
A number you can check against the tin is the only kind worth printing.
The tin, the Supplement Facts panel on the product page and the ingredient reference all read from one list. Not three copies of one list, one list. Every amount we publish is on that page, beside the formula it belongs to.
The other half of the page
Three claims you will not find here.
A dissolvable strip invites a particular kind of story. It is a good story and it is not ours to tell, because nobody has measured these formulas that way.
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Faster than a pill.
Nobody has run these formulas against a capsule. Not us, not anyone. Dissolving quickly and working quickly are two different sentences, and only the first one is a thing you can hold a stopwatch to.
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Absorption percentages.
There is no figure here because we have not measured one. Of everything printed on our labels, two ingredients have any published sublingual literature at all.
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Bypassing digestion.
No such thing has been shown for these formulas. A strip is a dose form rather than a shortcut, and the honest description of it stays the physical one: a thin film, on the tongue, gone.
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What we do say about the route.
Sublingual is a real route and we describe the strip as one, because that is where you put it. We do not put a number on it, and we do not claim it for our formulas.
Still open
Questions this page leaves you with.
Six we hear often. If yours is not here, ask us.
Ask us anythingDo I need water?
No. There is nothing to swallow, so there is nothing to wash down. Dry hands are the only equipment.
What is the film actually made of?
Pullulan, a polysaccharide made by fermenting starch, plus cellulose for body, mannitol on four of the eleven, and stevia for sweetness (monk fruit on six of them). The full Other Ingredients line differs a little by flavor and is printed on each tin and on the ingredient reference.
How long does it take to dissolve?
About thirty seconds. That figure is a dissolve time and nothing more: it says when the film is gone, not what happens afterwards.
Do strips work better than pills?
Nobody has measured that for these formulas, so we do not have an answer and we are not going to invent one. What the format changes for certain is the part where you have to swallow something.
Can I take more than one a day?
Follow the tin. Each label prints its own serving, and a few formulas carry warnings specific to them, Iron in particular. If you are pregnant, nursing, taking medication or managing a health condition, speak to your doctor before starting any supplement.
Is there sugar in it?
No sugar in any of the eleven. The sweetness is stevia, with monk fruit on six of the eleven. The sugar alcohols that give most films their body are printed on the Other Ingredients line of those tins; Beauty + Collagen, Mushroom Focus and Iron have none at all.
Before you go
The rest of it, in three lines.
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Thirty strips a tin.
One a day makes a tin a month. At $30.00 that works out at about a dollar a day, which is the only piece of arithmetic on this page.
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$30.00 once, or less on a plan.
Your first subscription order is $20.00, then $27.00/month. Skip a month or stop whenever you like, from your account, with no phone call.
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Designed in the USA.
Made for us at a cGMP-certified facility that specializes in oral film. Every batch has its own certificate from the manufacturer's laboratory, and each formula's page prints its results.