FAQ about balance: your hormonal acne solution

Balance is a dietary supplement, in capsule form, designed to support your body’s natural ability to metabolize and eliminate excess estrogens, helping to balance hormones and reduce hormonal acne and other symptoms of hormonal imbalance.

High estrogen levels are a common cause of hormonal acne. In fact, it's estimated that about 72% of adult women experience high estrogen, with hormonal acne being a common symptom.

Balance is formulated with three powerful ingredients that are scientifically-proven to help rid your body of excess estrogen, bringing your hormones back into balance and improving symptoms like hormonal acne. DIM works to ensure estrogen converts into a form that’s easily recycled or eliminated, while Glutathione and Calcium D-Glucarate help to support your liver and gut in removing excess estrogens and other toxins from the body. 

By supporting healthy estrogen balance, Balance directly targets the root cause of hormonal acne driven by high estrogen. Balance is the only supplement that contains DIM, Glutathione, and Calcium D-Glucarate, three of the most powerful compounds in supporting healthy estrogen, helping you achieve healthy hormone balance and acne-free skin.

While most supplements are formulated with a long list of ingredients to maximize claims, our ingredient list is intentionally minimal. By formulating with only three ingredients, we can ensure Balance offers therapeutic dosing, meaning each capsule contains enough of each ingredient to actually have an impact on the body.

Balance is for women and men, over the age of 18, who are experiencing hormonal acne or other hormone imbalance symptoms related to high estrogen. Beyond hormonal acne, hormonal imbalance symptoms in females can include mood swings, weight gain, and painful, heavy or irregular periods. In males, other symptoms can include erectile dysfunction, low libido, belly fat, fatigue, and water retention.

Yes, both men and women can benefit from Balance. Men are equally vulnerable to the effects of estrogens found in our environment, as well as genetic variations in how the body processes hormones, which contribute to hormone imbalances such as estrogen dominance. Hormonal acne is a symptom of high estrogen among men, but other symptoms may differ from those experienced by women, and can include erectile dysfunction, low libido, belly fat, fatigue, and water retention. 

Do not use Balance if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.

We do not recommend taking Balance if you are under the age of 18, and encourage you to always consult with your healthcare practitioner before adding any new supplement to your daily regimen.

Take 1 capsule daily, or as recommended by a healthcare professional. It’s best to take it at the same time each day. Balance can be taken with or without food, however, taking it with food can help improve absorption and lessen your chance of experiencing nausea or indigestion.

We recommended taking Balance for a minimum of 3 months to allow your body to adjust and to ensure the ingredients are given enough time to flush out excess estrogens and begin rebalancing your hormones. That said, you may need to take Balance for up to 6 months, or more, to achieve optimum hormone balance and peak skin results.

Not to worry! Simply resume taking the recommended daily dose. There is no need to compensate by taking more capsules than recommended. Keep in mind, for best results, it is recommended to take Balance daily.

We recommended taking Balance for a minimum of 3 months to allow your body to adjust and to ensure the ingredients are given enough time to flush out excess estrogens and begin rebalancing your hormones. That said, you may need to take Balance for up to 6 months, or more, to achieve optimum hormone balance and peak skin results.

While Balance is generally safe, it's always best to consult with your healthcare practitioner before adding any new supplement to your daily regimen.

Everyone has different genetics and lifestyles, so it can take anywhere from 1 week to 3 months to start noticing benefits from Balance and 3 to 6 months to achieve optimum hormonal balance and peak skin result. We recommend committing to a minimum of 3 months to allow your body to adjust and the ingredients enough time to flush out excess estrogens and begin rebalancing your hormones.

Once your hormonal acne and/or other hormone imbalance symptoms have subsided, it is safe and beneficial to continue taking a maintenance dose of Balance long-term. Maintenance dosing can range depending on your genetic makeup and lifestyle. 1 capsule every other day is generally sufficient to help maintain healthy estrogen, but if hormonal acne or hormone imbalance symptoms reoccur, it is safe to continue taking the recommended dose of 1 capsule per day.

The ingredients in Balance are helping your body flush out excess estrogens, which may cause minor, short-lived detox symptoms. While these symptoms are rare, they can include darkened urine, gas, headaches, brain fog, or fatigue, as well as feeling achy or irritable, or experiencing changes in stool.

To avoid side effects, we recommend drinking plenty of water and eating fibrous fruits and vegetables, which will help your body flush out excess estrogens and harmful toxins. If you experience any of these detox symptoms, try taking 1 capsule every 2 or 3 days and see how you feel. If a lower dose is tolerable, continue for 2 weeks before proceeding with the recommended daily dose. If symptoms persist, it’s best to speak with your healthcare practitioner.

Your body will likely go through a detox period when you first start taking Balance. This is because the ingredients in Balance are working to flush out excess estrogens. That said, it is possible for hormonal acne and other hormone imbalance symptoms to worsen within the first few days to first few weeks of taking Balance.

Birth control pills tend to suppress rather than solve hormone imbalances and symptoms like hormonal acne. So, in coming off the pill you may re-experience the hormone imbalance symptoms that drove you to go on it, often in a more pronounced way. Alternatively, you may have developed a hormone imbalance while on the pill and, in going off of it, are experiencing persistent hormonal pimples for the first time.

Balance is formulated with targeted ingredients, like DIM, that are proven to balance estrogen, helping many women bring their hormones and skin back into balance after coming off the pill. While Balance may be a great option for you, it’s always best to consult with your healthcare practitioner before adding any new supplement to your daily regimen. For example, if you've gone off the pill and are no longer getting your period, it could be a sign of much deeper hormonal issues that should be further investigated by a healthcare professional.

Our products are formulated with the expertise of licensed naturopathic doctors and professional biochemists, and manufactured in Canada in a GMP-certified facility, using top-quality ingredients. All our ingredients are traceable, unadulterated, and tested by third-party, certified labs. We never test on animals.

Yes, Balance is vegan and gluten-free. It’s also free from GMOs, sugar, soy, nuts, and dyes.

Balance is packaged in amber glass bottles that ensure each capsule is protected from degradation. That said, it’s recommended that you keep the Balance capsules in their original container and store at room temperature. Avoid areas that are very warm or humid.