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Collagen: the essential protein for beautiful skin
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As we age, our skin tends to lose elasticity and firmness, promoting the onset of annoying wrinkles. One of the main causes is reduced collagen production. This phenomenon begins around the age of 25, making it essential to include products that stimulate collagen in our daily skincare routine.
What is Collagen?
Collagen is a key structural protein for the skin, working together with proteins such as elastin to impart strength, elasticity and firmness. It is the most abundant protein in our bodies, found in dermis, tendons, cartilage, teeth, bone and cornea. In the skin, collagen makes up 70 percent of the total protein, playing a crucial role in maintaining its structure and strength.
Fibroblasts, are cells responsible for the production of collagen, especially in the skin collagen types I and III. Collagen is responsible for ensuring the skin's resistance to tensile forces, which are essential for daily activities such as walking, running and talking. However, collagen production declines with age and can be compromised by UV exposure, smoking, and pollution. Collagen decline begins around age 25, decreasing by about 1 percent per year, leading to wrinkles and loss of firmness.
Collagen in Cosmetics
Collagen has become a key element in daily skincare, with products aimed at restoring skin firmness and stimulating the production of new collagen fibers. Ingredients such as retinol and vitamin C are known to increase collagen production.
Cosmetics use different sources of collagen:
- Of animal origin
- Of marine origin
- Of plant origin
- Of synthetic origin
The plant-based world offers highly effective and sustainable actives, such as Acacia Senegal Gum, derived from the Acacia tree. This natural, multifunctional biopolymer is a vegan and sustainable alternative to traditional collagen, offering similar cosmetic benefits,
such asanti-aging,hydration and improved skin barrier function.
Plant-Based Collagen
Although plants do not produce collagen as animals do, they use complex biopolymers for strength, elasticity and healing. These biopolymers, consisting of interconnected protein and carbohydrate chains, are the basis for plant-based collagen used in cosmetics. Acacia collagen offers many cosmetic benefits similar to traditional collagen because of its stabilizing structure for the plant itself.
Incorporating collagen-rich products into your beauty routine can help keep your skin young, supple and firm, counteracting the signs of aging naturally and effectively.
COLLAGEN RENFORCER
Discover COLLAGEN BOOSTER serum
Use on the face, neck and décolleté to promote elasticity and firmness of the skin. Contains Acacia Senegal Gum, an extract derived from the Acacia tree with collagen booster action, and Kollaren™, a biomimetic peptide derived from a signal peptide: it increases skin firmness and healing process by activating the synthesis of extracellular matrix proteins, such as collagen and elastin.
Kollaren™ is used under license from Lucas Meyer Cosmetics Canada inc.
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