An Interview With Skinade: Transform Your Skin With Collagen Drinks

Today we're joined by the fabulous Alison from Bottle Science Ltd, the manufacturer of the sought after collagen drink, Skinade. Manufactured in the UK, Skinade has a dedicated following, and thanks to its incredible skin anti-ageing benefits, there's no wonder why.

As we get older, the collagen particles in our skin begin to break down, leading to a loss of plumpness, elasticity, and vibrance in our skin. Alison is here to tell us all about how drinking Skinade can help our body to reproduce collagen in order to keep our skin looking more youthful for longer.

What Are The Benefits Of Drinking Skinade?

"Within Skinade, you’ve got hydrolysed marine collagen, vitamin C, vitamin B, omegas 3 & 6, l-lysine and MSM." Alison explains. "What we want to do is produce a really healthy skin – vibrant skin. What happens as we age is that we lose collagen. We have collagen within the whole body - it’s in our skin, but it’s also in the connective tissue, too. It’s in our teeth, it’s in our bones, it’s in our liver, kidneys, heart...it’s everywhere. What we want to target is the collagen in our skin, and Skinade helps us do this."

How Do We Boost Collagen In Our Skin?

Collagen particles are quite big, and in order to keep your skin looking plump and volumised, you need these vital particles within your skin. From your early to mid-20's, your collagen begins to decrease by around 1-1.5% per year, so you'll begin to notice those fine lines and wrinkles becoming deeper, and your skin beginning to lose volume and sag.

"What we really want to do is help the body to produce new collagen in the skin." Alison says. "The body does produce new collagen if you have a wound, so if we were to cut the skin, you would have collagen in the blood that would heal that wound. But we don’t want the collagen particles to go through the digestion into the gut, because then we would only get 40% absorption. And because we have collagen all over the body, it could go anywhere and it’s not going to make the body produce new collagen."

Within Skinade, the collagen particle is broken down into tiny little fragments of collagen that are small enough to get through the membranes into your bloodstream pre-digestion, which gives 95% absorption of collagen into the bloodstream pre-digestion.

"When we spoke about if you were to cut the skin, you would have collagen in the blood supply to heal the wound," Alison says, "so when you drink skinade, you get a massive influx of collagen into your blood supply, and your body thinks there’s a wound. It works as a feedback mechanism that actually stimulates the fibroblasts (which are the manufacturers of collagen), to start to produce new collagen. They then produce that new collagen within the skin."

Does Skinade Work, And What Are The Key Ingredients In The Skinade Collagen Drink?

Yes! Skinade helps your skin using a mix of powerful ingredients including:

Vitamin C
There's 180mg of calcium ascorbate in Skinade, and when you trigger the fibroblasts to start to produce new collagen, the collagen peptides and the vitamin C in Skinade work together, helping to produce new collagen within the skin. This helps you to get the new collagen density and volume within your skin.

Eight Vitamin B's
Skinade also contains a blend of vitamin B's, one of which is Niacin (vitamin B3). This helps to feed your skin tissue and takes away any toxins in the skin. It also helps to diminish dark circles. Another B vitamin in Skinade is Biotin (vitamin B7) - this is amazing for healthy, glossy hair and healthy, stronger nails.

Omegas 3 & 6
From organic flaxseed oil, Omegas 3 & 6 help to re-balance your sebaceous secretions. So, if you have an oily skin, it’ll reduce them, and if you have a dry skin, it increases them. It also helps to stop any transepidermal water loss to help keep that essential hydration and moisture within your skin.

L-lysine
This is an antiviral, but it also keeps your skin healthy, helping with collagen formation at a cellular level.

MSM
Known as the 'beauty mineral', MSM is very anti-inflammatory and helps to keep your collagen fibres elasticated. It also helps them to stop becoming cross-linked - when this happens, they become brittle and weaken, which leads to wrinkles and loss of elasticity. MSN is also a fantastic antioxidant.

A popular ingredient within collagen drinks is hyaluronic acid, but Alison explains why this isn't added to Skinade: "Hyaluronic acid helps to hydrate your skin," Alison says, "however, when the body produces new collagen, it stimulates something called the HAS2 enzyme that makes the body produce hyaluronic acid in the skin. So, you're producing this new collagen and plumping the skin, but you’re also producing hydration as well."

What Does Skinade Taste Like?

Compared to a lot of collagen drinks on the market, Skinade actually tastes more like a fruit juice than a typical collagen drink. Along with its active ingredients, it has the natural juice of peace and mangosteen with zero added fragrance or colours.

Can You Take Skinade On Holiday?

Yes! However, you'd have difficulty taking the 150ml Skinade bottles on your holiday. But Skinade comes in handy sachets that you an easily take with you on the go. Simply mix the formula in 150ml of water, sparkling water, juice, or even your Nutribullet smoothies and go!

How Often Do You Need To Take Skinade?

Alison explains that you should drink Skinade every day for a minimum of 30 days, but an optimum of 90 days. You can and should continue drinking it after the 90 days, but if you'd prefer to approach Skinade from a maintenance perspective, then you can drink it once every other day, skipping a day in-between drinks.

Whatever you choose to do, it's important to take Skinade for 30 days first to help your body to stimulate the production of new collagen in your skin. "It takes a little time to do that," Alison says. "Things are happening from day seven, and you’ve always got collagen within your skin, but as we get older it becomes weaker and it can go a little bit irregular. After seven days of drinking Skinade, we’ve got studies to show that it actually helps to strengthen the collagen that you’ve already got. And as we go through that time towards the 30 days, and as Skinade is stimulating those fibroblasts, it takes around 30 days until you can actually see the plumper skin and the more hydrated skin on the face and on the tissues all over the body."

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