MAJOR Senna 8.6 mg Natural Vegetable Laxative Tablets, Made with Sennosides, 1000 Count

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MAJOR Senna 8.6mg 1000 Count: What to Know

On the two things that are actually comparable here, dose and cost, this is the clear value option. The active ingredient is stated twice in the detail table, as sennosides 8.6 mg in both the active-ingredients and special-ingredients fields, which is the same standardized amount as the Senokot Regular Strength and GenCare tablets. The package is 1000 tablets, which is ten times the Senokot box, and the per-tablet cost difference that produces is the largest gap on this page.

It is also the only listing of the five that prints its directions in full. The bullet reads: for adults and children 12 years of age and older, take 2 tablets once a day, preferably at bedtime, with a maximum dosage of 4 tablets twice a day, and refers the reader to the package. Those are the package's directions rather than our advice, and quoting them is useful because it lets you work out what a bottle actually represents: at two tablets a night, a thousand tablets is five hundred doses of something the labels say not to use for more than a week at a time.

The manufacturer is Major Pharmaceuticals, named in both the bullets and the detail table, which is a real pharmaceutical company rather than a marketplace brand, and the listing frames its quality claim around regulatory compliance rather than adjectives.

Two honest notes, and the first is the reason not to simply buy the biggest bag. A thousand tablets is far more than a household needs for occasional use, tablets have an expiry date, and a product the label restricts to short courses is a strange thing to own five hundred doses of. The sensible reading is that MAJOR's smaller pack sizes carry the same advantage in per-tablet cost without the waste. And the detail table gives the age range as All, which for a stimulant laxative is wrong; the bullet itself says 12 years and older.

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