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Nootropic Source

Established nootropics vendor that also carries research peptides; publishes COAs. Solid long-standing reputation. Aggregated from public sources; VialGrade does not endorse any vendor.

Updated 2026-08-05
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VialGrade C-

C- — proceed with caution

Worth a closer look before you buy: mixed buyer reports and a certificate-integrity flag.

Lab testsConcerns found· 2 checks
Government recordsNothing bad found· 1 check
Buyer reportsWorth a look· 1 check
Business infoNothing on file

Why this grade — Something official counts against this vendor — a government record or a hard link to a flagged store. Real lab tests would not cancel that out, so the grade stops here.

Based on 4 checks. 1 backed by a document.

0

Independent lab tests

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Median tested purity

48

Listings

-60%

Typical price vs market

1

Buyer reviews on file

What we found

Every check we ran on Nootropic Source

Based on 4 checks. 1 backed by a document.

Everything we know about Nootropic Source, in one place — each one comes from something you can read further down this page. The grade above is a summary of this list, not a replacement for it: a good result and a bad one both stay visible instead of cancelling each other out. We mark each one: Confirmed (we have the document), Reported (someone else said it), or Our guess.

Government records

No FDA/DOJ/FTC enforcement or recall record on file.

Independent lab tests

No third-party lab tests on record for this vendor.

What buyers say

Reported

Mixed reports from buyers.

Lab reports that don't add up

Confirmed

3 certificate-integrity flags (e.g. a cert that resolves to a different maker).

Certificate integrity warning

Nootropic Source’s posted lab certificates don’t hold up

  • Self-issued certificate

    Nootropic Source's certificates are issued by its own in-house lab, not an independent third party. A vendor testing itself and publishing the result is not independent verification.

  • Certificate doesn't match the product

    11 of this vendor's certificates picture a different compound than the product they're attached to (e.g. a Semax certificate shown on the bpc 157 listing). A COA for another product proves nothing about this one.

  • Certificates are years out of date

    The newest certificate this vendor publishes is from 2016. A years-old COA describes a batch long gone — it says nothing about the stock shipping today.

Derived from the certificates this vendor publishes. A red flag here doesn’t mean the product is fake — it means the vendor’s proof of testing can’t be trusted at face value. Not an accusation of intent.

ReputationLab testsBuyersCatalogHistory

Reputation

We don't boil it down to one rating

Who they are

Confirmed

Unclaimed page — nothing here is written by them

Has this vendor claimed their page? No. Everything here was gathered by us from public sources.

Lab tests current?

We don't know

No lab tests on record yet

We haven't found an independent lab test for this vendor yet.

Independently tested?

We don't know

No independent tests on record

Nobody independent has tested this vendor's product, as far as we can find.

Track record shipping

We don't know

We can't see how they ship

They don't sell through us, so we can't see how fast they ship.

What buyers say

Needs a closer look

Mixed reports · a fair number of reports · we're fairly sure

Established nootropics/research-chemical retailer with genuinely conflicting feedback: many customers report top-quality product and fast, professional service, while a meaningful number report non-delivery, orders stuck on 'processing,' and ignored support emails. A counterfeit look-alike domain (extra 's') adds confusion.

Scam & red flags

Confirmed

None on record

Official government actions (FDA, DOJ, FTC) and open fraud cases against this vendor. These are public records, not our opinion.

Each answer stands on its own and says where it came from. Where we don’t have the evidence, it says so — we never invent a number or blend everything into one score.

Independent testing

Nootropic Source — independent lab tests on record

Real, publicly verifiable third-party tests. Purity is read from the certificate itself. A test reflects one lab’s result for one submitted batch — not a guarantee that every vial matches.

How does this data get here?

Every record below is a real certificate of analysis, gathered two ways: from the public verification feeds that independent labs (like Janoshik) publish, and from the certificates vendors post on their own product pages. We open each certificate document and read the measured purity, content, batch, and date directly off it — a scraper can’t read a number printed inside an image, so this is done by machine vision, then recorded here with a link back to the original.

Nothing here is typed in by a vendor or invented by us. Where a certificate is missing, we say so rather than filling the gap.

We re-check the lab feed, too. A “still listed” tag means the certificate is currently public in Janoshik’s database — we re-verify against the live feed and stamp the date. If a cert is later pulled, the tag flips. It’s a freshness check on the same source, not a second independent opinion.

What a certificate does & doesn’t prove

Three different questions. Purity (“how clean?”), identity (“is it the right molecule?”, a mass-spec test), and content (“did I get the labeled mg?”) are separate. A vial can be 99% pure and still be the wrong peptide, or the right peptide underdosed. We flag the measured dose against the label above; underdosing is the most common real fraud.

Who submitted the sample matters. Most of these are vendor-submitted — the seller chose which vial to send, so one good certificate doesn’t prove every batch is the same. The gold standard is a blind test, where a buyer sends a vial they bought as a normal customer. Same label doesn’t prove same product; same batch number doesn’t prove same batch.

CertificateManufacturerBatchPurityContent / doseLab
Certificate of analysisNootropic Source—99.65%— Vendor self-tested View
Certificate of analysisNootropic Source—99.76%— Vendor self-tested View

What buyers say

Reputation, gathered from the open web

Mixed reportsmoderate review volumemedium confidence

Established nootropics/research-chemical retailer with genuinely conflicting feedback: many customers report top-quality product and fast, professional service, while a meaningful number report non-delivery, orders stuck on 'processing,' and ignored support emails. A counterfeit look-alike domain (extra 's') adds confusion.

What buyers praise

  • Long-standing vendor with repeat customers praising quality and quick delivery
  • Reports of friendly, professional customer service from satisfied buyers

Red flags reported

  • Multiple Trustpilot reports of non-delivery and money taken without shipment
  • Orders reported stuck on 'processing' for weeks with support emails ignored
  • Counterfeit look-alike domain warning (extra 's') indicates impersonation risk

Sources

trustpilot.com trustpilot.com

Gathered from public web sources on 8/5/2026 and weighted toward specific, reproducible reports over generic praise — praise is cheap to fake, failure reports and independent lab results are not. Reputation decays: ownership and quality change over time, so re-check against current sources before you buy.

Who owns it

Who’s really behind this storefront

Not linked to any other store we track

We checked Nootropic Source against every other store we track for the tell-tale signs that two “different” shops are the same people: the same tracking code, the same product photo, the same tested batch, the same supplier. We found none. That doesn’t make them trustworthy — it just means they aren’t one of a group of fake “rival” stores we’ve spotted.

Catalog

What they sell

typically below market
5 Amino 1MQ 10 GramsNootropic Source
C-Grade C-
Weight & metabolic

$250

$0.03/mg

-98% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Vendor flagged Too cheap?Live data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

51 minutes ago

MK-677 Powder 10 GramsNootropic Source
C-Grade C-
Growth hormone supportMuscle & performance

$300

$0.03/mg

-68% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Vendor flagged Too cheap?Live data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

51 minutes ago

5 Amino 1MQ 5 GramsNootropic Source
C-Grade C-
Weight & metabolic

$160

$0.03/mg

-98% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Vendor flagged Too cheap?Live data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

51 minutes ago

MK-677 Powder 5 GramsNootropic Source
C-Grade C-
Growth hormone supportMuscle & performance

$200

$0.04/mg

-58% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Vendor flagged Too cheap?Live data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

51 minutes ago

MK-677 25mg x 30ml 25mgNootropic Source
C-Grade C-
Growth hormone supportMuscle & performance

$70

$0.09/mg

-1% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Vendor flaggedLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

51 minutes ago

Selank Peptide 30mgNootropic Source
C-Grade C-
Cognitive & mood

$35

$1.17/mg

-74% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Vendor flagged Too cheap?Live data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

51 minutes ago

Semax Peptide 30mgNootropic Source
C-Grade C-
Cognitive & mood

$35

$1.17/mg

-70% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Vendor flagged Too cheap?Live data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

51 minutes ago

Ipamorelin Peptide 10mgNootropic Source
C-Grade C-
Growth hormone supportRecovery & healing

$65

$6.50/mg

+1% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Vendor flaggedLive data

Availability

Unavailable

Last checked

51 minutes ago

Ipamorelin Peptide 5mgNootropic Source
C-Grade C-
Growth hormone supportRecovery & healing

$35

$6.99/mg

+8% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Vendor flaggedLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

51 minutes ago

Tesamorelin Peptide 2mg Nootropic Source
C-Grade C-
Growth hormone supportWeight & metabolic

$25

$12.5/mg

+45% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Vendor flaggedLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

51 minutes ago

Sermorelin 2mg Nootropic Source
C-Grade C-
Growth hormone support

$30

$15.0/mg

+66% vs median/mg

Vendor catalog Vendor flaggedLive data

Availability

In stock

Last checked

51 minutes ago