Chemist Warehouse is having its regular half price deal on its house brand vitamins and mineral supplements.
Fantastic deal, for example
Wagner Prostate Health 50 Capsules $10.49
Wagner Vitamin D3 1000IU 500 Capsules $11.99
Wagner Vitamin B3 500mg 60 Tablets $4.49
Yea I get the ibruprofen too for like $3 for 50 tablets.
CW's home brand.
It sounds German ;)
Wagner started as an Aussie brand, then was made in NZ under Nutra-Life/Vitaco. Chemist Warehouse bought it in 2017 and made it one of their in-house labels. Now they don’t say where it’s made or who makes it, and some think the quality isn’t what it used to be.
Isn't everything required to be labelled with its country of origin by law? Wagner D3 1000 IU is made in Australia from local and imported ingredients
Wondered why my script came back as Wagner generic.
Haven't tried them yet as still using up the generic sandoz ( from a different chemist chain)
You should report that. It's a legal requirement to state where the product is manufactured
41mg Vitamin B6 in the Wagner Super Bio Magnesium, wouldn't bother
Yep I bought 2 bottles last time - but won't be consuming them to boost my Magnesium. This is potentially hazardous to health!
For those of you not aware - please read this article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-08/vitamin-b6-toxicity-p…
Does anyone know why supplement makers keep adding B6 to everything? Seems weird that so many products have this added when there's little known benefits and a big downside.
little known benefits
The article experts say it's rare anyone actually needs B6 supplements.
My point is even if they do they would buy B6 supplements not a random magnesium or calcium supplement that has some B6 thrown in for some reason.
@Sendaris: I wouldn't buy calcium supplements either; from dairy to leafy greens, calcium is one of the most abundant nutrients in any balanced diet, and supplemental calcium is generally derived from rocks, rather than actual food, and is associated with CVD, and no better bone health (it's basically the wrong calcium for vit K2 to carry to the tissues, including bone, so it accumulates in the circulatory system).
That’s a very good question.
Most people have no idea that the recommended daily limit of B6 is less than 2mg a day for an adult, and that if you take more than that over an extended period to you could easily reach toxicity putting yourself at risk of irreversible damage. I only know this because my GP was very concerned when my test results showed my B6 level was too high, and told me to check the two supplements I was taking. It was in a daily magnesium supplement I’d been on for over 6 months, and like this Wagner one, I was getting over 20 times the recommended limit.
Even happens to doctors: https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/i-couldn-t-walk-gp…
Also, it is mostly magnesium oxide which is not absorbed well and causes stomach aches. Go for other brands that have magnesium chelate
When does this finish?
28 May according to their catalogue
Everything except Ubiquiniol sigh
Microgenics ubiquinol is at $18.49 for 30x150mg.
Not the ATL, and far from Wagner's ATL at $23.49 for 60x150mg, but… better than full price, I guess.
Any comparison with swisse vitamin D. Bought 400 capaules for $14.03 before couple of days from Amazon :(
Seem very similar to me. I kept my wagner one in the fridge and just filled up the bottle with the Swisse one. I note that the Swisse one looks clear while the Wagner is cloudy and looks frozen. Not sure what to do with that information.
Any specific reason to store it in fridge? I thought it's not required as label doesn't say it specifically!
Mine says store it below 25c. But I think a lot of medications say that and its obviously not held in the fridge in the store.
@leftspeaker2000: Commercial Vitamin D is extracted from lanolin — sheep skin wax — and generally put in capsules with some carrier oil (usually sunflower, but could be worse: vegetable, i.e. soybean/rapeseed/cotton oil). I'd avoid the tablets; a lot of unnecessary fillers.
JSYK, Swisse is owned by a Chinese company, and many of its products (e.g. gummies) are made in Israel. Do what you will with that info.
combine with shopback $5 off instore cashback on paying with shopback.
no link sorry, it's a banner halfway down in the shopback app.
Wagner paracetamol is usually quite cheap also.