Beauty And The Blog

There are many products available claiming to replace the collagen in your skin. Some do the job. But most can’t, here’s why.

You need to look at the ingredients listed. Collagen as an ingredient itself is nothing more than an expensive moisturizer. A collagen molecule is much too large to penetrate your skin’s pores.  Simply adding collagen as an ingredient doesn’t stimulate collagen production in your skin. It only provides temporary plumping.

You can inject collagen (Ouch! And extremely costly!) to fill lines, that’s a different subject. I want you to choose a treatment product that has cell communicating ingredients that will tell your skin to start producing its own collagen, naturally as it is meant to do.

In the deepest layer of our skin we have what are called fibroblasts. Think of these as little factories that produce collagen. Over time they slow down or quit the job altogether because free radicals attack and destroy collagen producing components. To get them producing again you need PRO COLLAGEN PETIDES IN YOUR PRODUCT!

Collagen is a protein. Peptides are small chains of amino acids, which are proteins, and these molecules are tiny enough to actually penetrate you skin’s pores and talk to your fibroblasts, your collagen factories! They attach to the fibroblasts and fill in lost information, so to speak, and recreate that whole intact chain of proteins that enables collagen to be produced and present in the skin.

Collagen will help fill those little bird feet at the corners of our eyes and the dreaded vertical lines on your upper lip that a favorite lipstick happily migrates into. Facial wrinkles and lines will become less apparent, probably invisible to the naked eye.

Look for products that list Peptides. Soy Isoflavones will also help to smooth out lines and wrinkles while inhibiting metalloproteinase (yikes! big word), enzymes that stimulate the degradation of collagen. Magnesium is also a great ingredient, a key component in the energy cycle of the skin.