Frequently Asked Questions

88.5 mg of standardized saffron extract per serving, which is two softgels, printed on the front of the bottle. Nothing is hidden in a blend.

The trials that found an effect ran for weeks, not days. Most women feel the mood lift first, often inside the first two weeks, and the words follow. Judge it at six weeks.

You are right to ask. Saffron is one of the most faked ingredients in the world, and inside a capsule a cheap substitute looks exactly the same.

Every batch is tested by an independent lab before release, for identity and for the amount per serving. You are not asked to trust the word saffron on a label.

There are no hormones and no phytoestrogens in the formula, and saffron does not work through estrogen. Selvi is not hormone replacement.

We will not tell you your cycle cannot change, because cycles shift on their own in your 40s and 50s and some women do report changes. If yours changes, mention it to your doctor. If you take tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor, show them the label before you start.

Ask your doctor or pharmacist first and bring the label. Saffron has been studied for mood, so this is a question to settle with the person who prescribed your medication, not with us.

Never stop or change a prescription on your own to try a supplement.

That is one of the most common messages we get. Hormones settle the sweats and the nights, and for a lot of women the fog is the part that stays.

Saffron does not work through estrogen, so it does not compete with what you are already taking. It sits next to it.

Email us within 90 days of delivery and you get your money back, empty bottles included.

No form to fill in, no phone call and no retention offer. A person reads it and answers.

Saffron is the hero. The vitamin C, D3, zinc, B12 and B6 are there as a baseline, the nutrients a lot of women are told to check first when the fog starts.

Every one of them is listed on the label. Nothing is hidden in a blend.

Two softgels a day, together, with food. That is one serving: 88.5 mg of saffron extract with the five supporting nutrients.

Sixty softgels to a bottle, which is thirty servings, which is thirty days.

Take both softgels whenever you will actually remember, with a meal. For most people that is breakfast.

The only thing that matters is not missing weeks.

Nothing dramatic. Pick it up the next day where you left off.

Missing the odd day is fine. Missing three weeks is the thing that ruins your own test, because the clock you are measuring against starts again.

No to both. It is not habit-forming, and you can stop any time without anything happening.

Some people notice the difference most when they skip a week, which is also a good way to see what it is doing for you.

No. Selvi contains no soy, gluten, gelatin, dairy, wheat, eggs, peanuts, shellfish or yeast.

It also contains no artificial sweeteners, colors, flavors or preservatives. Other ingredients: glycerin and purified water.

Most people report none. Saffron does not suit everyone, and a few people feel more restless or more tired than usual in the first days. If that is you, stop, and email us for your money back.

If you are pregnant or nursing, or you take prescription medication, ask your doctor first.

Every batch is tested by an independent lab before release, for identity and for the amount of saffron per serving.

Saffron is one of the most faked ingredients there is, so testing the batch is the only honest way to know what is in the bottle.

Because the batch is tested by an independent lab, not by us. Cheap saffron is often cut with safflower, dyed plant material or not much saffron at all.

A test result is checkable. A word on a label is not.

Nothing. Shipping is on us on every order, with no minimum.

Delivery takes 6 to 9 business days and you get a tracking number by email when the package leaves.

Three. Three bottles is ninety days, which is the length of the guarantee and long enough to see the difference at work and at home.

One bottle is thirty days, which can end before the part you would notice most.

Email us before it ships and we will change or cancel it.

If you chose Subscribe and Save, you can cancel it whenever you like. There is no lock-in and no minimum number of deliveries.

Email us within 90 days of delivery and you get your money back, empty bottle included.

We will not make it hard to change your mind, and a person answers. Return postage is on you.

Anyone pregnant or nursing, and anyone on an antidepressant or other prescription medication, without asking a doctor first.

And anyone looking for something that works this week, because this is not that kind of product and we would rather say so before you pay.

Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world. Each flower gives three threads, picked by hand, and an extract concentrates that into a set amount per serving.

A bottle that costs a few dollars cannot hold a real dose of it. That is the whole reason the cheap ones sprinkle a little in and put the rest of the label on eleven other things.

Nobody can patent a flower. Without a patent there is no company willing to spend hundreds of millions taking it through drug approval, because anyone could sell the same thing the next day.

What exists instead is placebo-controlled human research, published and checkable, paid for by universities and by the companies that standardize the extract.

It is a fair thing to notice. Iran grows most of the world's saffron, so most of the early research came from there, and the effects reported in those trials were large.

Trials run elsewhere, including in Australia, found real but more modest effects. That is exactly why we promise a shift over weeks and not a miracle, and why the guarantee runs 90 days.

Selvi is not habit-forming and there is nothing to taper off. You can stop any time.

Some people take a week off now and then, and say that is when they notice what it was doing. That works fine. What ruins your own test is missing weeks at the start.