Beauty + Collagen Strips 100mg Collagen Peptides Per Serving with 6mg Vitamin E - 30 Servings, Mango, Lactose Free

Your skin did change, and you did not imagine it. Oestrogen drives the production of skin's own collagen, and when it falls, skin loses a meaningful share of that structure in the first years afterwards. It also makes less oil, which is why the dryness arrived at the same time as everything else.

Here is the honest part. Swallowing 100 mg of collagen does not put that structure back, and no strip in this category can carry enough to try. So this product is built around the other half of the problem: protecting the skin you have from the wear that keeps happening to it.

Two actives, and what each one is here for:

• Vitamin E, 6 mg – contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress. It is the fat-soluble antioxidant, which is the reason your skin holds on to it in its own lipids instead of clearing it, and it is the one ingredient here with an authorised claim behind it
• Collagen peptides, 100 mg – in the formula, on the label, and stated here in milligrams. No claim is made from it and the reason is set out further down this page
• Mango, sweetened without sugar – monk fruit extract and steviol glycosides, because a daily thing has to be something you would have anyway

VERA Beauty + Collagen Strips is one strip a day, any time, up to a maximum of one. Thirty to a tin. What you get for that:

• Daily cell protection for the skin you have, at an amount that carries a claim
• The antioxidant your skin actually stores, on a route that does not depend on its own oil
• Both amounts printed, so you can weigh this against the tub in your cupboard yourself

🔁 Cover belongs to the days you take it

Vitamin E is used up doing its job and your body keeps no useful reserve of it. That makes this a daily thing rather than a course you finish, and it is the reason a strip you will actually reach for beats a bigger amount you take twice a week.

🥭 What it is actually like

One strip, straight on the tongue, gone in a few seconds, tasting of mango. No water, no shaker, no film left in the bottom of a mug. If there is a tub of collagen powder you stopped finishing, this is the part that is genuinely different.

🧴 It does not replace what you put on your face

This works on cells from the inside. Your serum works on the surface from the outside. They are two different jobs and neither one makes the other unnecessary, so keep doing whatever is already working for you.

🙋 Skin is personal, and so is the answer

How much sun you have had, how dry your skin runs, how much vitamin E is already in your diet from nuts and oils, and where you are in the change all move this. Two women can take the identical strip and describe two different autumns.

This is a category built on two claims that do not survive a close look, so here is where this product actually sits.

• On the collagen, plainly – there are 100 mg in a strip. The trials behind collagen and skin run from two and a half to ten grams a day, so this is a small fraction of the smallest studied amount and no trial has ever been run at anything near it. It is on the label, so it is on this page, and it is not carrying a claim here
• On the absorption claim you will have seen – strips in this category tend to say they get collagen in faster by going under the tongue. That is not how it works. Collagen peptides are far too large to cross the lining of your mouth in any useful amount, and the way collagen is thought to do anything at all requires it to be digested first. A strip cannot beat digestion by skipping it, and we are not going to tell you it does
• On what the vitamin E does – 6 mg carries the authorised claim for the protection of cells from oxidative stress. That is the claim this whole page rests on, it is a real one, and it is the reason to take this rather than the collagen line on the front
• On where the collagen comes from – the label does not state the source, so we cannot tell you whether it is bovine, porcine or marine. Until it does, do not take this if you avoid any of those or have a fish allergy. We would rather say that than let you guess
• It is not a medicine and it is not a skincare product – nothing here diagnoses, treats or cures anything, and it works from the inside rather than on the surface

What is left is one properly dosed antioxidant, taken daily, in something you will still be taking in three months.

This was made for women who want to look after the skin they have, and who have already found out what a tub of collagen powder is actually like to live with.

It's especially for you if:

• Your skin got drier and thinner in the same couple of years everything else moved
• There is a two-thirds full tub of collagen in a cupboard and you know exactly why you stopped
• You spend properly on what goes on your face and have never found the inside half convincing
• You would rather be told what an ingredient cannot do than find out for yourself in month two
• You want the daily habit to cost you ten seconds and no sugar

Two actives with both amounts printed, 30 strips to a tin, one a day. Lactose free, hormone free, antibiotic free, corn free and free of fillers. Made in India.

Chances are, this is the beauty supplement you have been looking for.

It is not for you if you are pregnant or nursing, under 18, or if you avoid bovine, porcine or marine ingredients, because the collagen source is not stated on the label.

Your order today is backed by our 90-day guarantee. If VERA isn't right for you, return it within 90 days of delivery for a full refund. Simple as that.