White skin and beautiful appearance is the pursuit of how many women throughout their lives, but with the passing of the years, pigmentation, wrinkles and other skin problems gradually appear, bringing distress and anxiety to many people. At this point, some people say, not that collagen can improve these problems, is it true?

Collagen, said everyone is no stranger, itself is one of the important components of the skin, many people in the face of aging and bad skin problems, they will think of supplementing collagen. So does collagen work or not? Today we will talk to you about this issue.

01, Collagen

Firstly, let’s talk about this collagen thing.

Collagen is a very abundant protein in the human body, accounting for 25-30% of the total protein amount, and is basically distributed in various tissues of the body.

For our skin, collagen is also one of the important structural components, it is an important filler and support for the skin, and therefore one of the most important reasons for the elasticity that we can often feel in our skin. In addition to this, collagen itself is highly hydrophilic and is therefore an important factor in moisturising our skin.

However, as the years go by, collagen itself starts to face some problems, and I’m sure you’ll be able to see that one of the reasons why skin becomes less elastic over time is because of the changes that occur in collagen.

The reason for this is that as collagen ages, the body’s ability to synthesise collagen decreases – after all, the skin cells themselves age gradually. Even more problematic is the cross-linking and curing of some of the collagen fibres, which leads to a reduction in intercellular mucopolysaccharides, and the end result is that the skin begins to lose its suppleness and elasticity, showing signs of ageing, such as discolouration, wrinkles and so on.

02, Does collagen supplementation work?

Since aging skin manifestations are related to collagen loss, is it possible to make the skin more elastic by supplementing it with collagen?

Actually, this question has been researched for a long time and studies have confirmed that it can actually be achieved.

For example, in a therapeutic study of microneedle-introduced humanoid collagen, humanoid collagen was introduced via microneedle injections into the facial areas of the skin, including the forehead, cheeks, jaw, upper lip, and nose.

It was found that after the introduction, the facial manifestations were significantly improved, such as a significant increase in elasticity, a reduction in texture, and a reduction in pore size, while facial moisture was increased, which corroborates that humanoid collagen does indeed have the effect of improving skin problems.

In fact, even without the use of microneedling, a similar effect can be achieved by taking a direct approach of applying it.

For example, in another study, Giant Bio’s recombinant humanoid collagen dressings were used, and users were evaluated after three weeks of use.

Skin property tests showed an improvement in facial condition as measured by the VISIA Skin Image Analyser with absolute scores and SOFT5.5.

As shown in the table above, both pigmentation spots, texture, pores and indicators such as moisture and elasticity were well improved, which shows that humanoid collagen does show results.

03, Humanoid collagen

However, you may have noticed that we use the term “humanoid collagen” repeatedly here, what is it? Is it different from collagen?

Let’s talk about collagen as an ingredient. As we mentioned above, collagen is arguably the number one protein component of mammals, and all mammals are rich in collagen.

However, if we humans need an extra collagen supplement, then there’s a question that arises: how to get it.

In fact, the earliest collagen was of animal origin, that is, it was extracted directly from animals. Even to this day, this is still the main source of collagen.

However, there are some problems with animal-derived collagen:

Firstly, there are some distinctions between animal collagen and human collagen, after all, different species, there will certainly be species specificity, and it is difficult for the human body to fully accept animal source collagen.

Secondly, animal collagen is difficult to achieve absolute purity when extracted, will be mixed with some other animal ingredients.

The result is that when people use animal collagen may occur rejection problems or even allergies, which also limits the application of collagen to a certain extent.

Humanoid collagen, on the other hand, is obtained by obtaining the gene sequence of human collagen from the human genome and inducing its expression in the laboratory, and finally extracting it. This kind of collagen is extracted through bio-genetic engineering transformation and can be absorbed by the human body.

Compared to collagen of animal origin, this collagen is also successful in practice as it is the closest to humans due to its own genes from humans, thus reducing rejection and allergy problems.

It can be said that from the above series of introduction, we can see that, in the face of the skin problems caused by the passing of the years, supplementation of collagen is feasible, and in the collagen point of view, the choice of closer to the structure of human collagen humanoid collagen, not only better safety, the use of the effect can also be guaranteed.