How to Bio-Hack Your Skin Routine

In recent years, the beauty ingestible market has exploded. Like most biological processes, scientists have found a way to support our specific health & beauty needs with potent actives that work from the inside, out. Whether it’s healthy lustrous hair, diamond-hard nails, or candle-lit-skin you’re after, there’s a beauty supplement designed to support you on your journey. 

While some can be cautious to extol the benefits of supplements (preferring instead to focus on a nutrition-rich diet), experts have led promising studies into the science that sits behind these formulations – particularly if your diet is lacking (1).  

While this inside-out approach is gaining popularity, the ultimate beauty move is to combine the appropriate ingestibles with a potent outside-in skincare routine. Wellness company, Swisse, recognized the power of combining beauty supplements with skincare and have created a protocol of pairing their premium quality beauty supplements with their high-performance skincare products.

Aptly coined a ‘glow duo’, Swisse Beauty Collagen + Hyaluronic Acid Booster supplement is designed to help enhance skin firmness & support healthy skin from within, while the Hyaluronic 2% Vitamin B5 Glow Booster Serum, instantly hydrates and plumps the skin from the outside. 

Collagen has been studied extensively and there is some evidence that it helps improve certain aspects of skin health, including elasticity (2). Hydrolysed collagen in particular has been found to be better absorbed by the body (3).

The Swisse Beauty Collagen + Hyaluronic Acid Booster contains hydrolysed collagen to help improve skin elasticity and Vitamin C to support collagen production, plus our favourite skincare active – Hyaluronic Acid. 

Using collagen plus hyaluronic acid topically has long been a way to nourish and support skin health. By adding a pump of the Hyaluronic 2% Vitamin B5 Glow Booster Serum into your mornings and evenings, you’re doubling down on skin-plumping hyaluronic acid, as well as adding soothing and moisturising Vitamin B5, which plays an essential role in protecting the skin’s moisture barrier. This serum really contains an all-star cast of hydrating actives that will result in pillowy, dewy, smooth skin that looks fresh-from-a-facial. 

For daily multi-action wellness and beauty benefits, Swisse Beauty have launched a Multivitamin Beauty Complex that is designed to support different aspects of our health including healthy, glowing skin. Along with marine collagen and hyaluronic acid, the product contains a comprehensive blend of vitamins and minerals, including ashwagandha, which is traditionally used in Ayurvedic medicine to help the body adapt to stress, turmeric which is traditionally used in Western herbal medicine to help relieve abdominal bloating and digestive discomfort, vitamin B3 to support energy production and help relieve tiredness, vitamin C to help support a healthy stress response, and biotin and silicon to support skin health, and strong hair and nails.

Designed to be taken daily as part of an ideal beauty-from-within regime, the Beauty Multivitamin Beauty Complex is designed to provide additional support to help you look your best on the outside by feeling your best on the inside.

Taking an inside-out/outside-in approach to skincare is a sneaky way to amplify beauty benefits and ensure your skin has ample nutrients to draw on.

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In Association with Swisse Beauty.

Words by Sigourney Cantelo. 

Disclaimer: Always read the label and follow the directions for use. 

Swisse Beauty Collagen + Hyaluronic Acid Booster contains Sodium Hyaluronate which is a salt form of Hyaluronic Acid (HA).

^1. Proksch, E., Segger, D., Degwert, J., Schunck, M., Zague, V., & Oesser, S. (2013). Oral supplementation of specific collagen peptides has beneficial effects on human skin physiology: A double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Skin Pharmacology and Physiology, 27(1), 47–55. https://doi.org/10.1159/000351376. PMID: 23949208

^2. Kim, D.-U., Chung, H.-C., Choi, J., Sakai, Y., & Lee, B.-Y. (2018). Oral intake of low-molecular-weight collagen peptide improves hydration, elasticity, and wrinkling in human skin: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Nutrients, 10(7), 826. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu10070826. PMID: 29949889. PMCID: PMC6073484

^3. Kim, D.-U., Chung, H.-C., Choi, J., Sakai, Y., & Lee, B.-Y. (2018). Oral intake of low-molecular-weight collagen peptide improves hydration, elasticity, and wrinkling in human skin: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Nutrients, 10(7), 826. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu10070826. PMID: 29949889. PMCID: PMC6073484