This topic is lockedYes it is 3am, why do you ask? Anyway, you can CLEARLY see from poll options which I favor, and why. The biggest reason it would be more expensive would probably the the packaging. I doubt that Imminst has its own factory line, so the costs of getting equipment for making softgels and capsules in the same product would probably not be terrible, but it may come into play when you rent them or have a 3rd party make it or whatever. Please use a company that isn't going to gouge us. Life extension is sharpening its linoleum knife and licking it's lips looking at this, I bet.
Anyway, if it is split up, I'd propose that the minerals come in their own capsules, perhaps seperating them in the style of jarrowpaks 'ying' and 'yang' minerals to avoid too much competition. Then A and E come in a softgel, or two if you can't fit both in there. Then D3, K2, and anything else that can't fit(the provitamin carotenoids?) come in another. Then the water solubles come in 2 Vcaps. This way you can gobble it all down with a meal if you're in a hurry, or take them all seperately with other synergists if you're not.
Innovative packaging might be a good way to save expenses on this. I'm not sure if individually wrapping all of them would be a big dea/expense or not. I have another idea that might save expense if wrapping "paks" proves too expensive: I saw this on a container of sprinkles once. What it is, is basically a bottle with a seperator in it. So, like this: -|- without the gaps, keeping things apart. I don't know if making a custom bottle like that would prove to be less, or MORE expensive than just wrapping a punch of packs in a cardboard box/can of some kind, but it'll work with a childproof cap bottle. There's always using seperate bottles as well (in the same package), or alternatively, just wrapping them all catagorically in seperate sealed (opaque and airtight, but labeled) plastic bags for the whole lot of them and letting the consumer figure out their packaging, but also cutting expenses significantly enough to be worth any hassle. Perhaps even making them fairly thick, black, well-labeled ZIPLOCKS, so they're reusable AND cheap to produce. Keyword thick, though. None of that sandwich bag crap, I'm talking close to food storage grade. Of course, having been sealed before the first opening in the style of most packaged food, too.
Edited by shazam, 05 November 2009 - 10:50 AM.
