COLLAGEN IN SKINCARE AND SUPPLEMENTS - CON OR CURE ? For today’s @thismorning . The truth is it’s a bit of both as both beauty and supplement companies make over blown claims about what collagen can do both topically and ingested and who knew just because a product has collagen in its name it doesn’t even have to contain the stuff? In this item we sorted out a few myths and explained how topicallycollagen can be a great moisturising ingredient, and how to boost your own collagen with lactic acid, vitaminC and peptides, we then went on to look at what you need from a supplement - it’s 10 grams of hydrolysed collagen a day and bovine has the most research but marine collagen is available for those of us who don’t eat red meat. Products mentioned in the item are @elemis_uki iconic Pro Collagen Marine Cream (no collagen but pro collagen antioxidants) @aldiuk Lacura new Collagen Lip Oil as demonstrated by the handsome @vernonkay (who then went on to neck a glass of hydrolysed bovine collagen in a heartbeat) @alyaskinaus new Pink Marine Collagen Sleep Mask again no collagen but a great lactic acid gel mask to speed up skin cell turnover to boost collagen production @qandaskin Collagen Face Cream with a peptide to stimulate collagen @theinkeylist outstanding Collagen Booster Serum with eight peptides to boost collagen production. Then for supplements we looked at @vitalproteins Collagen Peptides and Vanilla Creamer (the first if which worked out the best value for money for hydrolysed collagen powder) @doseandco Pure Collagen Peptides @hollandandbarrett High Strength Collagen Powder and @bioglan.superfoods Beauty Collagen Gummies (you’d need ten a day btw to get the minimum recommended 10 grams) finally we looked at @kollohealth Premium Liquid Marine Liquid Collagen because not all of us eat red meat. Thanks as ever to @vickilaycock for all of her help. And it was great to be reunited with the wonderful @tylermakeup 💓