“Mom your hands look old.” Said my sweet 10-year-old daughter in that innocent childlike way they have as they crush your ego.
Truth of it is my hands did look old. Too many years spent training horses all day in the sun from my teens to my 30’s. Now at 42, my skin is showing the abuse and has aged a bit too quickly.
In my 30’s I adopted a good skincare system that kept my face in good shape, but the rest of my body was starting to look a little….crepe’ -y, or as my daughter put it, old. I wasn’t ready for this!
A few years ago, when my favorite wellness brand joined the collagen trend with a high-quality powder with clean ingredients, I jumped on it with excitement and hope. After a few months using it, I actually noticed firmer skin all around. It was working!
I stayed on it for a long time, but about a year ago, I had to make some budgeting decisions and decided this collagen was a vanity product that I didn’t NEED, so I quit using it. I’m sure many moms can relate. (Hindsight; collagen does more than make you beautiful, but I’ll get into that another time.)
Anyway, I had noticed my skin going back to that thin, crepe-y, old look again, but hearing my sweet girl pointing out my hands after I had been off the collagen for a while made me start to miss my collagen.
But then something else embarrassing happened.
I have this health assessment tool that helps me manage my supplement use by showing me what systems need more targeted support at the moment of the scan. This tool has a skin age assessment too. It’s usually pretty close to my actual age, give or take a year or two. But after being off the collagen for about 6 months, I had a scan that actually aged my skin at 54 years old.
That was 12 years OLDER than my actual age!
“NO WAY!” I thought. Okay, it was time to get back on track with the collagen. It’s going on my next order!
This was July 31, 2025. In June this same company released a topical collagen-peptide serum. It was time to try this out too.
Mama ain’t playin no more!
I am happy to report that after about 6 months using both products fairly consistently, my skin overall is firm again ….also noted by my observant daughter.
But the best part is, the health assessment scan results aged my skin younger and younger. My most recent scan, on January 12, 2026, had my skin age at 33 years old. I’ll be 43 in 10 days.
I love noticeable results in products I use, but I love measurable proof even more.
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Be well my friends! Live Young, Feel young. Look young!
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