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The First Three Ingredients Are Stimulant Laxatives

The order is in the written pack and nowhere on the product. That gap is the whole of this piece.

Quick answer

The eleven ingredients, in the pack's order, begin: cascara sagrada bark, cape aloe leaf, senna leaf extract.

All three are stimulant laxatives — they work by irritating the bowel wall into contracting.

The front of the bottle says Detox and Cleanse, Gut and Colon Support and Reduces Occasional Bloating. It does not say laxative.

No amount is declared for any of them, and no sennoside content is given.

Why the word matters

There is nothing wrong with a laxative. People buy them, pharmacies sell them, and for occasional constipation they do the job they say they do. The objection here is not to the ingredient class.

It is that a person buying gut and colon support and a person buying a laxative are making two different decisions, with different expectations about what tonight will be like, different questions for a pharmacist, and different views on taking it for six months. The front of this bottle lets the first person believe they are making the first decision.

The eleven, in order

The order is the finding

These are the eleven ingredients in the order the written pack names them. The first three are stimulant laxatives — cascara sagrada, cape aloe and senna. Nothing on the front of the bottle says so: it says Detox and Cleanse, Gut and Colon Support and Reduces Occasional Bloating. The last of those is the only claim a stimulant laxative would reliably produce, and it is produced by a route the label does not name.

  1. 01
    The photograph supplied for Cascara Sagrada bark.
    Cascara Sagrada barkstimulant laxative — reclassified by FDA to Category II in 2002
  2. 02
    The photograph supplied for Cape Aloe leaf.
    Cape Aloe leafstimulant laxative — reclassified by FDA to Category II in 2002
  3. 03
    The photograph supplied for Senna leaf extract.
    Senna leaf extractstimulant laxative — OTC labels say not longer than 1 week
  4. 04
    The photograph supplied for Triphala fruit.
    Triphala fruitno dose published in the sources this site opened
  5. 05
    The photograph supplied for Fennel seed.
    Fennel seedno dose published in the sources this site opened
  6. 06
    The photograph supplied for Bentonite clay.
    Bentonite clayno dose published in the sources this site opened
  7. 07
    The photograph supplied for Marshmallow root.
    Marshmallow rootno dose published in the sources this site opened
  8. 08
    The photograph supplied for Licorice root extract.
    Licorice root extractglycyrrhizin is the part that matters
  9. 09
    The photograph supplied for Slippery Elm bark.
    Slippery Elm barkno dose published in the sources this site opened
  10. 10
    The photograph supplied for Cayenne pepper fruit.
    Cayenne pepper fruitno dose published in the sources this site opened
  11. 11
    The photograph supplied for Milk Thistle seed.
    Milk Thistle seedwell tolerated; the evidence is thin

If the eleven are declared as a proprietary blend, then under FDA's descending-order rule this order would also be heaviest first, and the three laxatives would be the three heaviest things in the capsule. This site cannot tell you whether that is so, because no Supplement Facts panel was supplied and the order above is the written pack's prose, not a declared order. It is printed here as what it is.

Still deciding?

The two sentences to hold on to: the first three ingredients on this label are stimulant laxatives, and every over-the-counter senna product sold in the United States warns do not use laxative products for longer than 1 week, unless directed by a doctor. Everything else on this page is detail.

Where to buy itThe 365-day window

  • Eleven ingredients named, none with an amount
  • The first three are stimulant laxatives
  • U.S. stocking partner for BellyFlush

Prices on this site were supplied with the product pack. The checkout governs, and no delivery date is printed here because none was supplied.

What a reader can do about it

  1. Read the ingredient list before the claims.
  2. If the first names are cascara, aloe, senna, cascara sagrada, buckthorn or rhubarb root, it is a stimulant laxative formula whatever the front says.
  3. Ask what the sennoside content is. An over-the-counter tablet declares it; this does not.
  4. Ask how many nights it is meant to be taken for.

Questions

  • Is a stimulant laxative bad?

    No. It is a well understood class with a well understood label, and that label is the thing missing here.

  • How can I tell from a bottle?

    Read the first few ingredient names. Cascara, aloe, senna, buckthorn and rhubarb root are the common ones.

  • Does the order mean heaviest first?

    On a Supplement Facts panel inside a blend, yes. This order is the written pack's prose, not a declared panel order, and this site marks it as such.

Sources

  1. 21 CFR 101.36 — Nutrition labeling of dietary supplementsU.S. Electronic Code of Federal RegulationsThe rule that the label of a dietary supplement that is offered for sale shall bear nutrition labeling in accordance with this regulation, and the proprietary-blend rules on total weight and descending order of predominance by weight.
  2. SENNA LAXATIVE tablet — Drug Facts labelDailyMed, U.S. National Library of MedicineA current US over-the-counter senna label: sennosides 8.6 mg, purpose Laxative, and the warning do not use laxative products for longer than 1 week, unless directed by a doctor.

What this page was checked against

Every figure on it is transcribed from the supplied Supplement Facts panel and checked-out pack, derived by arithmetic from those, or taken from a source on the references page.

Written byThe MyBellyFlush editorial desk
Medically reviewed byDr. Mark Johnston, MD, Physician
RoleMedical reviewer
Review dateOctober 13, 2026
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