Six Star is a popular workout supplement brand, and their creatine is one of their most popular products. The brand's website suggests this product can help "Build Lean Muscle & Increase Strength."

But does Six Star Creatine provide an effective creatine dose for muscle building? Does it contain any unhealthy ingredients? Is it overpriced? And is Six Star Creatine better or worse than popular creatine brands like Momentous?

In this article we'll answer all of these questions and more, as we analyze Six Star Creatine's formulation to give our take on whether or not it's likely to be effective for muscle building, and whether or not it's healthy.

We'll compare its price to popular creatine brands, share our Product Tester's experience trying it for a month, and compare Six Star Creatine to other popular creatine brands to pick our winners (and losers).

Key takeaways:

• Effective creatine dose for muscle-building
• Priced similarly to competitors
• We currently recommend Six Star Creatine

Ingredient Analysis

The ingredient in the unflavored version of Six Star Creatine is shown below:

Creatine is the sole active ingredient, and is included at a dose of 5 grams (g).

Creatine increases power during exercise, and enhances the muscle-building effect of exercise according to a medical review published in the Nutrients journal.

Creatine is clinically shown to have an effective maintenance dosing range of around 2.5 g, as we documented in our Con-Cret reviews article on another creatine brand.

One good thing about this product is that it's entirely free of unhealthy additives like refined sugar, artificial flavors and artificial dyes.

Overall, we consider Six Star Creatine to be effectively dosed for muscle building.

We Tested Six Star Creatine

One of our product testers named Hannah Westerman tried Six Star Creatine for one month. Here's her experience:

I had no issues using this product. It can in a typical supplement tub with a scooper for servings.

I hated the way this supplement tasted, and found it hard to mask the taste. The only way to make it taste decent was by masking the taste in a smothie. 

It also made me somewhat nauseous.

As far as functional effects, it did boost my energy. I liked using this product before workouts.

I do not plan on purchasing Six Star Creatine in the future.

Overall, I would rate Six Star Creatine 5/10.

Is Six Star Creatine Overpriced?

Unflavored creatine should be functionally equivalent between brands, so price-per-gram of creatine is an important purchase consideration.

Here's a price comparison between Six Star and other popular creatine brands at the time of updating this article, on a per-gram basis:

Jocko Creatine: $0.17

Thorne: $0.09

Optimum Nutrition: $0.06

Six Star: $0.06

Six Star seems fairly priced compared to popular competitors.

Six Star Creatine vs. Popular Brands

Here's how Six Star Creatine compares to other popular creatine brands from a formulation quality perspective, in our opinion:

Momentous

This brand contains the same active ingredient, at the same dose.

However, Momentous Creatine is third-party tested and proven to contain the stated dose, and to be low in contaminants, making it the safer choice and the more reputable brand.

Winner: Momentous

Bear Balanced Creatine Gummies

Provides a research-backed creatine dose, and is one of the healthier creatine gummy brands on the market.

However, creatine gummies are typically less healthy than creatine powder, and this brand is no exception.

Bear Balanced Creatine Gummies contain a few inactive ingredients which we consider to be unhealthy, like citric acid, so Six Star Creatine is the healthier choice.

Winner: Six Star Creatine

Con-Cret

Underdosed, at only 750 milligrams (mg) per serving.

Six Star Creatine wins from a potential efficacy perspective.

Winner: Six Star Creatine

Our Clean Creatine Pick

MBG Creatine+ is our top creatine pick.

Beyond an effective creatine dose, this supplement contains an effective dose of taurine, an amino acid which was shown to improve power and time-to-exhaustion in a 2021 medical review.

This supplement is free of any ingredients we consider to be unhealthy.

Six Star Creatine Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Effective creatine dose for muscle building
• Should improve power during exercise
• Should support muscle-building
• No unhealthy additives
• Healthier than some competitors
• Better price than many similar products

Cons:

• Doesn't appear to be clinically tested
• No third-party testing clearly available

Conclusion

Six Star Creatine Powder is effectively formulated for muscle building and enhanced performance during workouts.

Creatine powders are somewhat functionally equivalent, and this product is free of unhealthy additives.

Six Star Creatine Powder is priced slightly lower than most of its competitors per-serving based on our price analysis.

We consider this product to have a much healthier formulation than the other product we reviewed from the same brand, called Six Star Whey Protein.

We consider Six Star Creatine to a better-formulated creatine supplement than Bear Balanced Creatine Gummies and Con-Cret, but to be a slightly worse option than Momentous (because this brand publishes third-party test results).