The essential trio of collagen, hyaluronic acid and vitamins is particularly effective in reducing the outward signs of aging, and is featured in many nutricosmetics products.
Because these three active ingredients work together to smooth, firm and homogenize your skin, they are found in many of the most effective anti-aging dietary supplements.
MyPureSkin products are no exception, but do you really have to take our word for it?
Of course not, and that's why our team is opening the door to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms behind this central trinity of our range.
"Science and Nature at the heart of our formulas": discover how our maxim is systematically verified by understanding what makes our core formula a precious ally in helping your skin age!
Active ingredients with proven benefits for the skin
To understand the effects of the active ingredients in our core formula, we need to look at what the scientific literature has to say.
Collagen: a key active ingredient for firming your skin
Created at the heart of your fibroblast cells, collagen is a macromolecule (i.e., a large molecule) whose omnipresence is necessary for the proper functioning of your body.
Your body's largest organ is no exception: it's one of the reasons why your skin withers over the years.
The aging process leads to a slowdown in its production as soon as you pass your twenties. By lacking collagen, the ExtraCellular Matrix (ECM) that surrounds your skin cells causes your epidermis to lose one of its essential properties: firmness.
This is one of the reasons why fine lines and wrinkles appear progressively, but become increasingly pronounced as you age.
Fortunately, the right amount of collagen, combined with a high-quality active ingredient, can help reduce the outward signs of aging.
A number of studies have highlighted this, including one published in 2022 by researcher Hend Al-Atif (1).
As the scientist explains, the properties of collagen are such that topical or oral application not only systematically helps to reduce fine lines and wrinkles, but also helps to prevent them from appearing in the first place.
Not all collagens are created equal: the importance of hydrolysis
However, Al-Atif's study does not assess under which conditions such supplementation is most effective. To find the best source of collagen, you need to delve into studies such as the one by Kathrine Skov (2), published in 2019.
In it, we learn that absorbing collagen in hydrolyzed form (known as "collagen peptides") offers better results than consuming "non-light" collagen.
To understand this, we need only go back to the circuit of ingested collagen.
Collagen digestion supplement
When taken orally, this macromolecule passes through your digestive system, where it is broken down into smaller units: collagen peptides. These are made up of amino acids, small molecules whose names can be found on the ingredient lists of certain dietary supplements (alanine, arginine or lysine).
It's only when separated into amino acids (AA) that the collagen peptide can be of use to your body. The AAs are small enough to pass through the intestinal wall and enter the bloodstream via the capillaries that run through it.
Certain cells (such as the fibroblasts in your skin) are then responsible for capturing them and reassembling them: this is collagen biosynthesis.
Inefficient digestion: choosing a truly effective dietary supplement
Unfortunately, while the human body is an incredibly competent machine, it remains inefficient in many respects, particularly when it comes to the digestion process.
The "waste" involved in breaking down collagen into peptides can therefore be avoided by consuming a more "bioavailable" collagen, already "ready to use" in peptide form, as Skov's study shows.
This is why most nutricosmetics brands using collagen now tend to compose peptide-based formulas.
Other health benefits: collagen doesn't just firm up your skin
What's more, collagen has much more to offer your skin than skin firming. This is clear from the findings of studies such as the one published in 2022 by Chongyang Li's team (3).
Not only does this research add to the body of evidence that peptides are more effective than non-hydrolyzed collagen, it also highlights their photoprotective effect on the skin.
As sun exposure leads to premature aging, the use of collagen peptides would enable us to act upstream to prevent senescence.
Beyond the skin, collagen has often been studied as a precious ally in the fight against ageing in a broader sense, in that oral collagen supplementation offers, among other things :
- A protective effect and promoter of joint health (when hydrolyzed), as shown by the research of Daniel Martinez-Puig and his team, whose findings were published very recently, in 2023 (4);
- A positive effect on the digestive process (which tends to deteriorate with age), as shown by the results of a study published in 2022 by Mariette Abrahams' team (5).
Hyaluronic acid: an active ingredient to moisturize your skin
As essential as collagen, hyaluronic acid is used throughout the cosmetics industry. Injections, creams, dietary supplements... This active ingredient is also renowned for the rapidly visible effects it offers the skin.
A moisturizing agent first and foremost
A veritable "water reserve" for your skin, hyaluronic acid acts as an end-to-end ally in the cutaneous reaction chain.
Capable of carrying almost 1000 times its own weight in water, hyaluronic acid builds up a stock which it releases as and when required by each cellular process (notably during collagen biosynthesis and its expulsion from the fibroblasts into the Extra-Cellular Matrix).
By binding to other molecules in the ECM, it also plays an active logistical role, moving water from one place to another to cover the metabolic reactions that punctuate your skin's life.
Large or small: how to choose your hyaluronic acid?
As with collagen, the hyaluronic acids available on the market vary widely in their effectiveness. Once again, this is due to their molecular weight, a unit for measuring the volume of these active ingredients, which determines how easily a given hyaluronic acid will pass through the intestinal wall to reach your skin cells.
In this respect, brands such as MyPureSkin choose a premium ingredient to guarantee optimum efficacy by focusing on low-molecular-weight hyaluronic acid.
Broader health benefits: hyaluronic acid and its uses
Like collagen, the hyaluronic acid produced by your body gradually diminishes in quantity over time. That's why dietary supplements such as MyCollagenLift, MyCollagenGlow and MyCollagenRepair are designed to make up for this shortfall, keeping skin moisturized for as long and as effectively as possible.
But there's more to hyaluronic acid than that.
Recent research findings, such as those published in 2020 by Alexandro Barbosa de Souza and colleagues (6), have highlighted that the formulation of hyaluronic acid-based supplements may well increase the degree of absorption of the active ingredients they contain.
In other words, certain ingredients may be more bioavailable when consumed with certain hyaluronic acids. This paves the way for premium formulas of the kind that MyPureSkin aims to deliver on a daily basis.
Collagen and hyaluronic acid: a central synergy
But it's really by combining collagen and hyaluronic acid that it becomes possible to target visible effects in just a few weeks.
We owe this fortunate situation to a particular cascade of biochemical reactions, highlighted by the results of studies such as the one published in 2017 by Haiyong Ao's team (7).
While the study focuses primarily on the synergistic effects of collagen and a particular hyaluronic acid (modified by the addition of a titanium coating), Haiyong highlights some general properties of the collagen and hyaluronic acid combination.
Indeed, following on from Matsiko's research (which he mentions in the bibliography), he demonstrates that the addition of hyaluronic acid can improve cellular infiltration and promote chondrogenesis by mobilizing available collagen more effectively.
In other words: hyaluronic acid and collagen work in tandem in a number of ways beyond skin construction, for example in building stronger joints.
Vitamins: the finishing touch to an efficient heart formula
Alongside collagen and hyaluronic acid, the third major player in premium formulas such as those delivered by MyPureSkin is a very diverse group of molecules: vitamins.
There are many reasons why they are so important, and their properties are just what's needed.
Essential antioxidants
Recognized for its exceptional antioxidant properties, vitamin C is the essential ingredient in every good nutricosmetic.
OPCs (OligoProanthoCyanidins), as polyphenols, are also excellent antioxidants.
Both are used in the composition of MyCollageLift, for example, but also in combination with other vitamins such as those from the B and E groups in the formulas of MyCollagenRepair and MyCollagenGlow.
However, MyPureSkin products go even further: by combining the properties of various active ingredients, both upstream and downstream of the oxidation process, they effectively protect your skin.
Antioxidation, antiglycation and deglycation
Some dietary supplements, like MyCollagenRepair for example, combine the antioxidant, antiglycating and deglycating properties of different active ingredients to offer comprehensive protection against free radicals.
An antioxidant umbrella
Finally, ideally, your choice should be for a dietary supplement that enhances the effects of your antioxidants, like MyCollagenLift, which completes the effectiveness of its vitamins with a SOD-Zinc (SuperOxyde Dismutase) complex that creates a complete antioxidant umbrella with the vitamins and polyphenols in its formula.
Synergies with collagen and hyaluronic acid
This anti-oxidant umbrella is one of the best examples of synergy, but going back to the heart of the formula reveals that the ingredients common to every MyPureSkin signature nutricosmetic are capable of working in close synergy.
Indeed, as shown by a study published in 2018 following the work of Nicholas N. DePhillipo and his team (8), vitamin C can accelerate collagen biosynthesis.
This can benefit not only skin, but also bones and joints.
MyPureSkin: Science and Nature at the heart of our formulas
So it's no coincidence that MyPureSkin has chosen as its core formula a combination of :
- Collagen peptides with greater bioavailability than unhydrolyzed collagen to replace and promote the biosynthesis of lost endogenous collagen;
- Low molecular weight hylaruonic acid to support your collagen production processes, while helping to deeply and continuously moisturize your skin;
- Vitamins and other antioxidants to optimize the life of your collagen and keep your smile looking younger for longer.
So it's easy to understand where MyCollageLift, MyCollagenGlow and MyCollagenRepair get their premium efficacy from: skin and cosmeceutical expertise combining knowledge of nature and scientific mastery.
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- Hend Al-Atif's study of the cosmetic "paradigm shift" (revolution) represented by dietary collagen supplementation in anti-aging strategies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8824545/
- Kathrine Skov's research on the increased bioavailability of collagen after hydrolysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6566347/
- Exploring the photoprotective effects of collagen peptides on senescent skin : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213453021000975
- Study of the protective and promoting effects of collagen peptides on joint health: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10058045/
- Highlighting the digestive benefits of oral collagen peptide supplementation in healthy (pre-senior) women aged 35-65 years.
- Influence of hyaluronic acid on gastrointestinal behavior: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7601924/
- Exploring the synergistic effects of certain types of collagen with titanium-coated modified hyaluronic acid : https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/ra/c6ra27364e
- Effects of vitamin C supplementation on collagen biosynthesis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6204628/
