Euramin Vital Hair Review: Miracle Cure? Or Hair Loss Hype?

By Paul Taylor

Does Euramin Vital Hair really work?

This review explains whether the B vitamins, amino acids and goji berries it contains can regrow hair or cause side effects.

At first glance, Euramin looks like just another food supplement for your hair. And, as such, one that might well be added to the ever growing list of supplements that simply do not work.

But, is it yet another gimmick out to make money from your hair loss misery? Or is there something special about this product?

Read this review and decide for yourself. Also learn if there are any side effects you should know about.

Euramin Ingredients: Can They Help Hair Growth?

As the name suggests, Euramin Vital Hair does contain some ingredients that are important (or even "vital"?) for healthy hair growth. These include several vitamins, amino acids and the mineral zinc.

But, is it absolutely necessary to deliver all these nutrients to your body from a food supplement?

The short answer is "no".

Most health professionals (nutritionists, doctors, etc) don’t think it is.

And even the manufacturers of food supplements (including Euramin) clearly agree because their product labels always state something along the lines of:

"This supplement should not be used as a substitute for a balanced and varied diet."

Furthermore, given that the rest of your body probably grows hair perfectly well (arms, legs, pubic hair, etc.) this basically proves that your body is getting all the protein (which gets digested and then reformed into amino acids), vitamins and minerals it needs.

B complex vitamin supplement

It’s just the hair on the top of your head that seems to be the problem!

So what if you take extra nutrients, perhaps on a long-term, regular basis? Could they really boost hair regrowth on your scalp?

There are two reasons why I don’t think they can:

1. Most vitamins, including the B vitamins in Euramin Vital Hair, are water-soluble. This means that, if your body doesn’t fully use the high dose of supplements you’re putting into it, it will simply excrete any excess in your urine.

A good, easily detectable example of this is vitamin B2 (riboflavin) which, in excess, turns urine bright yellow.

2. The levels of most nutrients in Euramin Vital Hair are not especially high anyway.

Take a look at the B vitamins for example: a daily dose (4 capsules) will give you a very low amount when compared to, say, a simple multi B vitamin formula from somewhere like Holland and Barrett.

First, here’s the B vitamin list from Euramin Vital Hair:

  • Thiamine (vitamin B1): 3.8 mg

  • Riboflavin (vitamin B2): 4.9 mg

  • Niacin (vitamin B3): 54.5 mg

  • Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5): 20 mg

  • Pyridoxine (vitamin B6): 4.7 mg

  • Cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12): 8.5 ug

  • Folic acid: 690 ug

  • Biotin: 150 ug

Note: ug refers to micrograms – one ug is just one thousandth of a milligram (mg).

Don’t forget, you have to take four capsules of Euramin Vital Hair to get this dose.

Now, compare that with a simple health shop brand which costs a fraction of the price of the Euramin supplement) and only requires one caplet taken per day (see photo below).

Multi B vitamin supplement ingredients list

In this example, only biotin and folic acid levels in the Euramin product are slightly higher. All the other B vitamin doses in Euramin are much lower.

So, at least for the B vitamins, you might be inclined to think that you can probably get a better deal from a different product.

What about the other Euramin ingredients?

Here’s the remaining ingredient list from Euramin Vital Hair:

  • Vitamin C: 88 mg
  • Zinc: 14.5 mg
  • L-arginine: 630 mg
  • L-methionine: 380 mg
  • L-glutamine: 220 mg
  • Goji berry extract: 18 mg

Once again, you can probably get the amino acids (L-arginine, L-methionine and L-glutamine) quite easily from another supplement at a higher dose and a lower price.

Or you might prefer to get your amino acids from your diet alone. For example, methionine rich foods include: pumpkin seeds, soya beans, lentils, turkey, trout, etc.

Goji berries (wolfberries) are quite an interesting ingredient in this list because they’re said to be one of the so-called "super-foods".

Note that the ingredient list states "extract" - this basically means that the product contains a more concentrated form of the active ingredients than if you were to take say, a simple ground up powered product.

Likewise, if you simply eat raw goji berries, whilst you’ll still be getting the active ingredients, gram for gram they probably won’t give you as much as you would get from taking a supplement containing the extract.

Read the flyer below and you can see the nutrients goji berries contain and the therapeutic benefits they are said to have.

Goji berries promotional flyer

Can Euramin Vital Hair Cause Side Effects?

There have been one or two reports of minor side effects (restlessness, tingling sensations, etc.) but nothing major.

From the ingredient list, there certainly doesn’t appear to be any substance, or at a toxic dose, that should cause any harm at all.

Does Euramin Work?

There are currently six testimonials on the official Euramin UK website, all of which are very short and give 5 stars.

There have also been some reviews in forums both for and against this product. However, I personally don’t think it wise to trust forums (read this article to find out why).

Everyone’s different, of course. So, what helps one person might not help someone else. And that means the only real way to know if it really works, is to try it.

Summary

Clearly, it’s a lot easier to take just one type of supplement rather than having to shop around and "mix and match" other products.

So, at first glance, you might like the idea of taking a product like Euramin Vital Hair.

Euramin Vital Hair and alternative supplements

However, personally I think that whilst some food supplements can support hair growth, I do not believe that any supplement can reverse hair loss.

Perhaps, if you don’t follow a healthy and varied diet, it might be a good idea to take a food supplement to try and restore the level of nutrients your body needs. But that doesn’t guarantee that the hair on your head will miraculously start growing again!

Food supplements are probably only going to really help if a nutrient deficiency was the reason for your hair loss in the first place.

In which case, if you suffer hair loss (and care enough about your hair to want to get it growing normally again) but don’t follow a healthy diet, then surely the first and most important thing you need to do is change your diet, rather than simply start taking food supplements.

Learn more about vitamins and minerals for thinning hair and hair loss?

Note: Always speak with a doctor or nutritionist before you start using dietary supplements for hair loss.


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