2020 consumer polling conducted by the Ingredient Transparency Center (ITC) in the US, Germany and the UK showed skin, hair and nail health was by far the most commonly sought collagen health benefit (43%) followed by joint health (22%) and bone health (21%). Almost 90% had heard of collagen and 30% were extremely or very familiar with it.
Collagen is popular, but are beauty seekers getting the best collagen for their skin, hair and other beauty needs?
Fact is, collagen peptide quality varies greatly. How can you know which collagen is best?
Choosing the best collagen supplements
Opaque supply chains and product claims lacking science don’t benefit the collagen category or you – you who just wants high quality, collagen peptide nutricosmetics.
Nobody wins when collagen products don’t deliver collagen beauty benefits, or marketing persuades people to buy the wrong products or collagen sources can’t be verified.
Thankfully there is a lot of high-quality collagen on-market, you just need to know what you are looking for.
One way to assure you get the best beauty-from-within hydrolyzed collagen (another name for collagen peptides) is to look for branded ingredients.
Branded ingredients: Collagen for beauty
When you choose a reputable branded collagen peptide like Peptan you benefit from a deep and historical commitment to independent collagen science that directly links your choice to better skin, better hair and more.
Branded ingredients invest more in formats and formulations and work more closely with end-product makers to optimize consumption convenience, bioavailability and efficacy.
Branded ingredients are more likely to invest in the highest quality manufacturing processes and supply chain transparency, employing third party certification services so you know exactly what you are buying, and exactly where it came from.
Branded ingredients also invest more in communicating these benefits to both consumers and beauty from within supplement and cosmetic brands.
Buying branded ingredients means buying collagen peptides you can trust.
Science-backed collagen benefits
Rousselot Health & Nutrition’s year-in-year-out collagen commitment means Peptan has been transformed into a kind of implied collagen peptide health claim for premium beauty from within benefits.
An independent 2020 survey conducted among nutrition industry professionals rated Peptan number one in science – along with quality and service – against four other players in the collagen peptide space.
Clinical trials1,2 have shown doses between 5-10g of Peptan collagen are effective in wrinkle reduction, improving hair, reducing collagen fragmentation and improving skin hydration to name a few specific benefits.
A recent study delved deeper into how collagen peptides perform these functions in the body – showing collagen peptide supplementation increases levels of hydroxyproline-carrying dipeptides in the blood3 . Think of hydroxyproline-carrying dipeptides as beauty from within enablers. When your skin or hair is glowing, you know they have been busy enabling!
It’s this commitment to the best independent collagen science that means so many beauty from within brands want to possess the ‘Peptan inside’ premium promise.
Download whitepaper to discover Peptan’s benefits on skin and hair beauty as demonstrated in a clinical study.
The Peptan collagen quality assurance
How do we guarantee Peptan collagen is the best?
Rousselot has refined its collagen supply chain over more than a century – today it is fully compliant with exacting European Union and international Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and numerous regional and global standardization bodies.
Clean label, GMO-free Peptan collagen is Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) in the US and approved by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in Europe as well as the global World Health Organization (WHO).
Rousselot is also a member of regional and international trade bodies to develop and advance collagen best practices across the world.
By adhering to such uber-strict internal and external standards, full batch-by-batch traceability and quality control is enacted up and down the supply chain whether it is for cosmetic, food, biomedical, pharma or technical applications.
All this makes Peptan the safest, cleanest, most efficacious and ethical collagen peptide on the planet.
That’s what collagen leadership looks like. That’s what beauty from within looks like. That’s the Peptan quality assurance.
Want to know more about Peptan for beauty from within? Head here.
References:
[1] Asserin, J. et al., 2015. The effect of oral collagen peptide supplementation on skin moisture and the dermal collagen network: evidence from an ex vivo model and randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials. Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, doi: 10.1111/jocd.12174
[2] Cosmetics Business, 2021. Whitepaper Slowing down the clock with collagen peptides.
[3] ] Kleinnijenhuis, A.J., 2019. Non-targeted and targeted analysis of collagen hydrolysates during the course of digestion and absorption. Anal Bioanal Chem. 2019 Dec 24. doi: 10.1007/s00216-019-02323-x.
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