Crystal Tomato® is the best-known colourless carotenoid supplement in Singapore. If you are looking at alternatives, this page sets out what actually differs, using each brand’s own published information.
01 — Common ground
Both are built on the same idea
Both products are oral carotenoid supplements aimed at pigmentation and uneven tone, and both rest on the same science: the colourless carotenoids phytoene and phytofluene, which absorb ultraviolet rather than visible light and accumulate in skin tissue over weeks. Neither is a bleaching agent and neither replaces sunscreen.
So the choice is not about which idea is right. It is about formulation, and that is checkable.
Background on the compounds themselves: what white tomato is, in two minutes.
02 — Side by side
What each brand publishes
| Crystal Tomato® Whitening Supplement | Lipo Crystal | |
|---|---|---|
| Form | Coated caplet, 30 per box, one daily | 3 g powder sachet, 20 per box, one daily |
| Tomato input, as listed | Non-GMO Tomato Powder | Standardised extract, 500 mg declared per sachet |
| Second active | L-Cysteine, a glutathione precursor | Liposomal vitamin C, 600 mg |
| Delivery system | Not stated on the product page | Herbosomal® phospholipid carrier |
| Published testing on the finished product | Clinical trial work, published by the brand | Laboratory testing at the School of Pharmacy, Lincoln University College |
| Halal certification | Not stated on the product page | JAKIM certified since 2014, reference number verifiable on the public MYeHALAL portal |
| Where sold | Own store and aesthetic clinics | Pharmacies and online in Malaysia and Singapore |
| Price in Singapore | S$198 a box, 30 caplets, one daily — S$6.60 a day | S$55 for 20 sachets — S$2.75 a day. Six boxes S$219 brings it to S$1.83 a day |
Crystal Tomato figures are from crystaltomato.com on 4 September 2026, and their ingredient wording is quoted from their own product page. Prices and formulations change — check both before deciding. Crystal Tomato® is a registered trademark of its owner and is named here for comparison only.
03 — The difference that matters
Powder and extract are not the same input
This is the one line in the table worth pausing on, and it comes from the published ingredient lists rather than from anybody’s marketing. A dried fruit powder is the tomato, dried. A standardised extract is concentrated to a declared amount of the compound you are buying. Both can be described as tomato on a label; the concentrations are not comparable, and only one of them lets you know what you are taking.
That is also why the milligram figure matters more than the brand name. Lipo Crystal states 500 mg of white tomato extract per 3 g sachet, printed on the carton. When a product does not print a per-serving figure, there is nothing to compare it against.
The second point is arrival. Carotenoids are fat-soluble, so a dose taken with nothing fatty to carry it largely does not cross the gut wall. A phospholipid carrier builds that in. It gives more of them the chance to get there.
The long version: how much white tomato actually reaches your skin.
04 — Being straight about evidence
What our testing shows
The Lipo Crystal formula was tested at the School of Pharmacy, Lincoln University College, where it inhibited tyrosinase by 93.82% at the concentration assayed. That is laboratory testing. Separately, published human research on colourless carotenoids reports a rise of roughly 10 to 20 percent in the minimal erythema dose over 12 weeks. Two different kinds of evidence, both named for what they are.
Full methods and tables: the laboratory data, in full.
05 — Common questions
What Singapore buyers ask
Any product in this category should answer four questions before you compare brands at all: is the per-serving milligram amount printed, is it a standardised extract rather than dried fruit powder, is there a delivery system for a fat-soluble compound, and does any certification carry a number you can look up. Lipo Crystal is one option that answers all four; apply the same four to anything else you are considering.
No. They are separate products from separate companies, and the names are not related. Both are oral colourless-carotenoid supplements, but they differ in form, in what the label declares, and in how the dose is delivered — the table above sets out each brand’s own published details.
Crystal Tomato lists S$198 for a box of 30 caplets taken one a day — S$6.60 a day (their store, 4 September 2026). Lipo Crystal in Singapore is S$55 for a box of 20 sachets, one a day, which is S$2.75 a day; six boxes at S$219 works out at S$1.83 a day. Cost per day is the number worth comparing, because the published research on these compounds runs over 12 weeks — long enough that the difference compounds.
Yes. Orders ship to Singapore from bykare.com, and the site prices in Singapore dollars automatically. Dispatch takes 1 to 2 business days and Singapore transit 3 to 5. Shipping is included and every order is tracked. It is also sold across Malaysian pharmacy chains including Watsons, Alpro, Caring and Well, R+ Pharmacy and GoodMedic.
Lipo Crystal has held JAKIM halal certification since 2014 under Malaysian Standard MS 1500:2019, and the reference number can be checked by anyone on the public MYeHALAL portal without an account. That matters in Singapore too, and it is checkable rather than a printed logo.
06 — The short answer
What you can check for yourself
Everything in Lipo Crystal’s case is something you can check yourself. The per-serving dose is printed — 500 mg of standardised extract, not an undeclared amount of fruit powder. The delivery system is named — a Herbosomal® phospholipid carrier, which for a fat-soluble compound decides how much of the dose arrives at all — alongside 600 mg of liposomal vitamin C. The formula has been laboratory tested at a named institution, the School of Pharmacy, Lincoln University College. And it is a fraction of the daily cost: S$2.75 a day against S$6.60, or S$1.83 a day on six boxes — a little over a quarter of the cost, over a course the research says runs 12 weeks.
One month, or the full course
One box is 20 sachets, one a day — S$55 with shipping included, S$2.75 a day. Orders are dispatched in 1 to 2 business days and reach Singapore in 3 to 5, tracked.
Three boxes is S$119 — 60 days, S$1.98 a day. Six boxes is S$219 and covers the full 12 weeks the studies ran, at S$1.83 a day.
Lipo Crystal is a food supplement, not a medicine, and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Results vary between individuals and build gradually. It is not a sunscreen — keep wearing SPF. Crystal Tomato® is a registered trademark of its respective owner; Bykare is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to it.
