Why La Bell will never use a proprietary blend
If one label practice explains most of the disappointment people have with supplements, it is the proprietary blend. It is not a loophole anyone is hiding — it is printed right there on the panel. It just relies on you not knowing what it conceals.
How the trick works
A proprietary blend lets a brand group several ingredients under one name and disclose only the combined weight. You see "Recovery Matrix — 5,000 mg" and a list of ingredients underneath, but not how those 5,000 mg are split.
Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, which is the only clue you get. In practice a blend is often dominated by whichever ingredient is cheapest, with the marketable ones present in amounts too small to matter.
Two products can carry identical ingredient lists and differ by an order of magnitude in what they actually deliver. From the outside, they look the same.
The defence, and why it does not hold
The stated reason is protecting a formula from competitors. It sounds reasonable until you notice the exact ingredient list is printed on the panel — the only thing hidden is the ratios, and any competent lab can determine those from a tub bought at retail.
So a blend does not meaningfully protect a formula from a competitor. It protects it from the customer, who has no lab and no way to check.
Our position
La Bell Nutrition does not use proprietary blends in any product. Every active ingredient is listed with its own amount, on every formula in the range.
That is not generosity — it is the only way the rest of what we claim can be verified. "Clinically dosed" is a meaningless statement on a label that hides its doses. Full disclosure is what makes the claim checkable, and being checkable is the point.
It also removes our own escape hatch. With every number printed, we cannot quietly trim a dose when ingredient costs move. The label commits us in public.