Anti-ageing / Guide to Skincare Ingredients / Supplements

3 Collagens - Which Collagen Is Right For You?

Research has shown that orally ingested collagen can increase collagen synthesis and improve hydration levels in the skin, which has been reported to:

• Reduce the appearance of lines, wrinkles & ‘crow’s feet’

• Make skin appear younger

• Increase skin firmness

• Improve elasticity of the skin

• Reduce skin dryness

• Increase skin smoothness 

Collagen is now one of the top beauty and health supplements.

 It helps to promote healthy skin, joints, organs, blood vessels, digestion, bones, nails and hair. Even the tissues of our heart and brain contain it!

 Rejuvenated's extensive analysis of the different benefits led them to create a high potency hydrolysed marine collagen supplement.
Changes in diet and lifestyle then led to Rejuvenated creating a potent vegetarian supplement, their most recent product as a plant-based offering.

 
Rejuvenated offer three amazing collagen supplements, so which one is right for you?

Collagen Shots

Collagen Shots (contains marine fish) is a high-strength multi-award-winning collagen drink with skin-firming antioxidants and vitamins. 
Formulated with 10,000mg of highly absorbable amino acid proteins and contains mostly collagen type 1 with some type 3. These are the collagens that are most effective in supporting youthfulness and skin health. It has an abundance of the key collagen-building amino acids proline, glycine, and hydroxyproline all vital in the formation of collagen. Collagen Shots have the highest amount of amino acid peptides with the most effective results for skin, hair, nails and the whole body.
 
There are some other ingredients that are important to ensure maximum absorption.

Vitamin C is important to help produce the important amino acid hydroxyproline(1). It also allows the effective absorption of collagen into the body. Collagen Shots® is rich in vitamin C and contains açai berry which is also rich in vitamin C.

The other ingredients in our product work together to improve your benefits.

Açai berry, we’ve already mentioned açai, which is a super berry and packed with a multitude of antioxidants and omega 3’s.

Hyaluronic acid is a natural hydrator as it can hold up to 1000 times its own weight in water. Hyaluronic acid fills the gaps in the extracellular matrix to keep our skin soft and plump.

Copper and zinc help to protect cells from oxidative stress and promote healthy DNA.

Vitamin B3, B5 and B6 to aid digestion and promote wellbeing.
 
 
Veggiecol

Veggiecol (vegetarian) is the first natural collagen supplement to offer a vegetarian alternative to marine-based Collagen Shots. The amino acid peptides used in Veggiecol come from a patented potent extract from egg membrane. Veggicol comes in a capsule and contains predominantly type 1 collagen but has some types 5 and 10. It has 100 times more type 1 than type 5 and 10, so these are a very minimal part of the formula. It helps to support connective tissue, wound healing and build muscle. It also contains elastin, glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate which help skin and joints. Clinical studies show that it helps to promote hair and nail growth and reduce pigmentation in the skin.  
 
Veggiecol contains the same added ingredients as Collagen Shots, in that it contains: hyaluronic acid, açai berry, copper, zinc, vitamin C, B3, B5 and B6.


Skin Perfecting Complex (vegan) Botani-col is a patent pending plant collagen booster in capsule form.  It contains a vegan fusion of the exact amino acids required to promote collagen synthesis. 
 
It can't actually be called vegan collagen, as there isn’t a single plant that contains collagen. Although Vegan collagen doesn’t exist, certain plants however do contain peptides and Botani-col has been put together from a combination of plants to offer amino acids in the same combined ratio of those in animal collagens. It mirrors the formation of marine collagen so that you are getting all the benefits in a product that is 100% vegan.

We’ve added this amazing formula to some very exciting anti-inflammatory botanical ingredients in our Skin Perfecting Complex capsule. If you have inflamed skin and suffer from acne, rosacea, psoriasis or polluted skin, then this product is for you. You can of course take it alongside either of the other collagen products for maximum skin benefits.

Botani-col also contains Gotu kola, ashwagandha, seabuckthorn berry, nettle, MSM, probiotics, chlorella, vitamin C, copper and zinc.
It also helps to prevent oxidative stress, subsequently clarifying polluted skin.  You can also take it alongside either of the other collagen products for maximum skin benefits.
 
 
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Andrea Patel Dermatology Nurse Practitioner & Director Author
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