Like other reviewers here, I have bought Vitamin C supplements here over the past year. Not in Boots, but from a pharmacy in Germany when I was travelling through. I saw they were ascorbic acid and was a bit perturbed - that's a chemical, not a vitamin, surely !

Anyway, it did nothing for me, neither good nor bad. I took them for 2 weeks and had no feeling or reaction whatsoever of any kind.

At that time I was enticed by Amazon into trying their new Kindle for pc software on my notebook and a curiosity about supplements led me to buy my first Kindle book - "Supplements Exposed"
( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Supplements-Exposed-Vitamins-Minerals-Effects/dp/B002SG6FBM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1299978004&sr=8-2 )

What an eye-opener !! It turned my thinking about supplements upside down and explained perfectly why the synthetic vitamin c I bought in Germany had no effect whatsoever.

Now, this review is not a plug for the book. But only to explain why I will never buy synthetic supplements or vitamins ever again. The vast majority of them are useless. There is a vast hidden scandal in the industry, which I was shocked to discover, and you will too. In some cases, the synthetic supplements are worse than useless but actually harmful :o(

From now on, I only buy vitamin supplements made from natural ingredients. The best source of vitamin C on the planet comes from the amla berry, which grows on trees in India and China. It has 20 times the vitamin c of an orange.

I did a careful review of the sites on the internet to find a good supplier. I came up with amlaberry.co.uk and have bought twice from them now over the past six months, each time they delivered promptly within 3 days by first class post.

This is the real McCoy, real vitamin C. What a difference. You get a real rush of wellbeing immediately after drinking the powder in water. You can feel it working at once and it makes ascorbic acid a joke.

As a bonus, you can mix 2 parts of amla with i part yoghurt and 1 part olive oil to make a powerful hair conditioner, which rejuvenates and recolours your tresses ! Apparently, it is a traditional hair treatment for centuries in Asia.

So, do some serious research on supplements and take better care of your body by going back to nature.