CBD Oral Spray UK

What is actually on this shelf

Five lines, and something we should say before anything else: every one of them is Vitality CBD. This is the only single-brand shelf in the shop. That is not a curation boast, it is just what the two distributors we buy from carry in this format, and you deserve to know it before reading a page that might otherwise imply choice.

Within that, there are genuinely three different products. The Lemon Oral Spray is a spray and nothing else, in 600mg and 1200mg. The three Dual Applicators, in natural, lemon and berry, put a dropper and a spray head on the same 30ml bottle at 2400mg and 4800mg. The Calm Support is a 1200mg bottle with both a pipette and a spray head, and it carries added botanicals the others do not.

Everything here is 30ml, 99 per cent pure CBD in raw organic MCT coconut oil, and stated by the manufacturer as containing no THC. So the only variables are strength, flavour and which applicator you get.

That makes the concentration ladder unusually clean, and it is the first thing worth understanding, because a bottle total on its own tells you very little.

Nobody can tell you what one spray contains

This is the central problem with the entire category and we have not found a page that admits it.

To convert a bottle total into a dose per spray you need two numbers: the concentration, which you can calculate, and how much liquid the pump delivers, which only the manufacturer knows. Nozzles differ. That second number is not a detail.

Look at what the market publishes. One British brand states its own figures openly: 58mg a spray from a 4500mg bottle, at about 77 sprays per 30ml. Another states roughly 3mg a spray from a 1000mg bottle, which works out at something over three hundred sprays from the same 30ml. General guidance in this category puts a 30ml bottle at between 160 and 220 sprays. Those three positions cannot all describe the same kind of pump, and the spread between the extremes is more than fourfold.

Vitality publishes neither a spray count nor a per-spray figure, on its own site or through the pharmacies selling it. Neither does the pharmacy page currently ranking first for this search, which explains at length how to apply the product and never once gives a milligram figure.

So here is the arithmetic, done honestly and with the missing variable named rather than guessed. Take the concentration, apply the plausible range of spray counts, and you get a range rather than a number.

The daily figure two of these sellers are still quoting

Read the table above next to the current Food Standards Agency advice and the reason this matters becomes obvious.

The FSA advises healthy adults to keep CBD from food supplements to no more than 10mg a day. That advice was announced in October 2023, adopting the recommendation of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, and it replaced a much higher figure of 70mg.

The 70mg number is superseded and has been for over two years. It is also still live on UK CBD pages. One retailer ranking for this term states that no more than 70mg should be taken daily. And the brand that makes every product on this shelf runs a heading on its own website reading, in as many words, that it recommends 70mg a day.

We stock that brand, we think the products are well made, and we are still going to say plainly that the figure is out of date. Seven times the current advice is not a rounding difference.

Set against 10mg, a single spray from the 4800mg bottle plausibly exceeds the whole daily figure on any of the spray counts in the table. Even the 1200mg bottle gets close on the lower spray counts. That is not a reason to avoid a strong bottle, it is a reason to know what you are holding, which is precisely the information this category does not provide.

To be exact about what the advice is: it is precautionary consumer guidance from the FSA, not a legal limit, and the FSA has said it will not force the change onto products already on its public list. It is not an instruction from us and this page does not tell you what to take.

The separate legal test, the one that decides whether a product may be sold at all, is that a container may hold no more than 1mg of controlled cannabinoids. Per container, not per spray and not as a percentage. Not one of the four pages we examined for this shelf states it, and one of them gives a percentage figure that belongs to hemp cultivation licensing instead.

Dual applicators, and why four of five bottles include a dropper

A dual applicator is one bottle with two heads: a pipette dropper and a spray. You swap between them depending on where you are.

The logic is sound and it is the best thing about this shelf. A dropper gives fine control and needs a level surface and a bit of attention, which suits taking something at home. A spray needs neither and goes in a bag. Buying both in one bottle removes the choice entirely, and it is why only one of our five lines is a spray on its own.

It also means the honest framing of this shelf is not spray against drops. Four of the five bottles give you both. The real decision is strength.

One further point on the strength ladder, since it runs against the usual assumption. Sprays are often described as the weaker format, and across the whole oil aisle that is true: our pipette bottles reach 25,000mg where the strongest spray-capable bottle here is 4,800mg. But within this shelf the dual applicators at 4800mg are four times the concentration of the plain 1200mg spray, so the bottle that includes a spray head is the strong one and the spray-only bottle is the gentle one. Our CBD oil aisle covers the wider drops-against-spray question properly.

The Calm Support bottle is not the same product

One line here has ingredients the others do not, and it should not be bought as though it were simply another CBD spray.

Alongside the CBD and the MCT coconut oil, the Vitality Calm Support 1200mg lists Californian Poppy, Magnesium and 5-HTP, with a spiced citrus flavouring. Those are the manufacturer's stated ingredients.

We are naming them and stopping there. What any of those ingredients does is not something a UK retailer may tell you, and we are not going to imply it through the product name either. If you are taking prescription medication, or you are pregnant or breastfeeding, a bottle with added botanicals is exactly the sort of thing to run past a GP or pharmacist before starting, and that is worth more than anything we could write here.

The practical point for this shelf is simply that it is a different formulation at 40mg per ml, and if you want plain CBD in MCT oil then the Lemon spray or one of the dual applicators is what you are after.

How to use one, and who should buy something else

The method is the same across every bottle here. Spray under the tongue, hold it there for around ninety seconds rather than swallowing straight away, then swallow. Holding it is the entire point of an oral spray: some of the cannabinoid is taken up through the lining of the mouth on the way, which is a shorter route than the digestive one.

A practical note nobody mentions: the first presses on a new bottle will not deliver a full amount until the pump primes, so do not count those.

Now the honest cautions, and there are several.

If you want to know exactly what you are taking, a spray is currently the wrong format, because the one number you need is not published. A pipette bottle from our CBD oil aisle lets you count drops and work it out.

If you want choice of brand, this shelf has none. Every line is Vitality.

If you want a flavour other than natural, the lemon and berry dual applicators are both out of stock at our distributors at the moment, which leaves the lemon plain spray as the only flavoured bottle available.

If you have never taken CBD before, do not start at 4800mg. Start at the 600mg lemon spray, which at 20mg per ml is the gentlest thing on this shelf, and read the FSA position above before you decide anything.

If discretion rather than precision is the whole reason you are here, our CBD chewing gum and CBD sweets aisles do the job without a bottle at all.

Over-18s only. These are food supplements rather than medicines and nobody selling them may tell you what they do for a health condition.