Posted by People who are looking for a wellness vendor will find no shortage of them. Deciding on one (or maybe more) is a different story and takes time. It’s a process that demands you know what to look for in a reliable vendor with quality products.
You don’t always know at first whether you’re looking for one particular substance or want a variety of them. I enjoy comparing vendors’ product lines to see what niches they fill and what kind of people they appeal to.
Kratom, 7-OH, and Pseudo are all popular, with Pseudo being a newish 7-OH alternative. With such options at your fingertips, and a quality product from a reliable vendor, you can freely choose what’s right for you based on true, pure effects and precise dosing.
Real Botanicals and Kream are two popular vendors. Not only do they offer different products and price points, but they have their own standards for quality control and testing. To get the cream of the crop, read this comparison between the two companies’ brands, products, and practices.
Company Backgrounds
Real Botanicals: Founded in 2021, Real Botanicals became a pioneer in wellness products with a focus on balance, clarity, mood, focus, and energy to support your lifestyle, your way. They’ve been transparent about ingredients and testing results since the beginning to provide for direct consumers as well as wholesalers.
Kream: Kream was founded in 2020. Their focus is to provide quality, potent kratom products with transparency so that customers know exactly what they’re getting with no mystery ingredients and incomprehensible lab testing reports.
Sourcing and Manufacturing Practices
Real Botanicals: Ethical sourcing of kratom from Southeast Asia and the South Pacific has been part of Real Botanicals’ standard practices, and that sourcing provides the alkaloids for their 7-OH and Pseudo as well. They’re a manufacturer-direct vendor, so they don’t need to outsource labor and do white-labeling with their private SC lab.
Kream: There isn’t information about their sourcing, but Kream Crew’s cannabinoid products derive from high-quality hemp. They are also driven by research to comply with good manufacturing practices, although they are not AKA or GMP-certified.
Quality Control and Product Testing
Real Botanicals: Independent, third-party testing is the bare minimum standard for quality products. But besides that, Real Botanicals provides you with transparent test results fron independent, third-party labs you can see directly on the website for each product listing. They’ve also patented an extraction and purification technology, ChromaPure.
Kream: Driven by research and focused on compliance, Kream provides lab-tested, contaminant-free, accurate, transparent, and traceable products with premium-grade extraction techniques and third-party testing. Formula integrity, quality control, and scalable supply for retail and wholesale partners are what they stand by. Lab test results are available on their website.
Product Line
Real Botanicals: Flashy, bold, conspicuous colors aren’t part of their packaging at all. Real Botanicals prefers to focus on premium-quality, precisely-dosed products over variety and possibly inefficient products with inaccurate dosing. Although Real Botanicals offers 7-OH and Pseudo, their products don’t stop there: They also offer kratom, Oxonol, kratom and kava shots, and mushrooms.
Kream: By first glance alone, I can tell off the bat that Kream is for experienced users. Different combinations of 7-OH, Pseudo, MIT (mitragynine kratom alkaloid), kava, and kana are available in the form of chewable tablets and shots, rather than focusing on each active ingredient separately. One example is their 7-OH + Pseudo + MIT shots. However, they do have light, regular, and high potency options. They also offer Delta-9 THC vapes.
Shopping, Pricing, and Refund Policy
Real Botanicals: The website is extremely straightforward and simple to use. Simply choose the product category of 7-Hydro, kratom, mushrooms, and 7-OH alternatives of Pseudo and Oxonol. Pricing is affordable and considered average to slightly more expensive – you’re paying for high quality direct from the manufacturer, not a vendor who does white-labeling. There’s a 30-day satisfaction guarantee and free shipping when your order meets the stated amount, as well as a discount when you subscribe to their newsletter.
Kream: By typing in “kream crew products,” you can find what their retail partners offer. Kures Apothecary is a big one, with kratom, 7-OH, 7-OH + Pseudo + MIT, 7-OH + kana, and MIT + Pseudo + kava chewable tablets in popular flavors. The pricing is affordable, if slightly on the higher end, but then again, you’re getting the reliability you pay for. Kures Apothecary has a 30-day refund policy for unopened items.
The Verdict
Kratom, 7-OH, and Pseudo all come from the leaves of the kratom plant, so it’s good to find a vendor that offers all three options. Real Botanicals and Kream serve different niches with their offerings of kratom, 7-OH, Pseudo, and other products. While one is a manufacturer-direct vendor with the entire product line available on their website, the other sells to partners through which consumers get a limited selection of products.
If you’re looking for a reliable vendor you can trust for new and experienced users alike, choose Real Botanicals. But if you’re an experienced user who’s ready to explore a variety of products and combinations of kratom, 7-OH, Pseudo, and more, choose Kream.
Check out “Real Botanicals vs. Kratom Spot.”