Collagen is likely a familiar term if you’ve ever sought out age-defying skin care that promises benefits. It’s both a natural structure found in the body and a supercharged skincare ingredient. But what is the difference between the two? How exactly does it benefit skin?

Discover what collagen is, and why you might want to add a collagen face oil like Charlotte’s NEW! Collagen Superfusion Facial Oil to your beauty ritual.

What is Collagen?

Collagen is the most abundant protein in the human body. It’s the main structural protein in the dermis, the middle layer of skin (above is the epidermis, and below is the hypodermis/subcutaneous layer).

Collagen is responsible for helping keep the skin feeling supple, smooth and healthy, while looking firm and uplifted. Due to its large molecular size, collagen can carry a high amount of water, and therefore has excellent moisturizing properties on the skin, imparting radiance and filling in the cracks in dry, dehydrated and aging skin.

The Benefits of Collagen for Your Skin

As we age, the natural production of collagen decreases. Other factors play a role as well, such as stress, lifestyle habits, poor skincare habits, and environmental factors. This means skin begins to loose it’s look of elasticity, appear dry and dehydrated, and less plump. Without appropriate care, the balance of oils and water in skin’s natural barrier becomes compromised. A healthy balance, on the other hand, helps prevent dullness, redness and dehydration, promoting balance, even tone, softness, smoothness and glow.

The good news is that it’s possible to help restore the youthful glow to collagen-deprived skin. Face oils help create a barrier on the skin, softening and sealing the skin, preventing water loss and adding a radiant, beaming glow. On top of that, collagen as a supercharged skincare ingredient can help restore a youthful look and feel by rehydrating the skin for a plumping, firmer effect.

Charlotte's Collagen-Powered Face Oil

Charlotte’s NEW! Collagen Superfusion Facial Oil is HER MOST POWERFUL TOOL EVER TO DELIVER GLOWING SKIN!

A radiant skin filter by day and a rich, calming elixir by night, this high-performance oil has been designed with expert skin scientists and breakthrough ingredients to be non-greasy and non-comedogenic, while addressing universal skin concerns, like dryness. It’s a perfect, moisture-sealing liquid balm to layer on top of your serums and creams.

The formula begins with a luxurious base of botanical oils, including avocado, olive, babassu, raspberry, and evening primrose oils. Steeped within this vitamin-rich base is a COLLAGEN MATRIX of supercharged, research-backed ingredients like Collageneer™, a molecule extracted from Sweet White Lupine Seed coatings to improve the feeling of skin elasticity and firmness, and Cocoyl Hydrolysed Collagen, a powerful plant-derived collagen to help restore a youthful look and feel. This extraordinary facial oil also features NanoCacao, an extract of cocoa beans, to smooth the look of fine lines and wrinkles and MAXnolia to reduce the look of redness, boost skin hydration levels and give the feeling of firmer, smoother, more elastic skin.

The formula works alongside the skin’s natural oils to help balance the look of the complexion, lock in moisture by strengthening the barrier on the skin and help support the feel of soft and supple skin. It also soothes, smooths, hydrates and plumps the appearance of skin, whilst helping to calm and soothe the senses with the transformative power of scent!

NanoCacao O and MAXnola O are products by Mibelle Biochemisty AG

Collageneer™ is a trademark of Laboratoires Expanscience™