Marine Collagen - What Is Marine Collagen?

Marine collagen is a type of collagen that is derivied from various types of marine algae such as the species Padina Pavonica and Laminaria as well as codfish. Marine collagen products are limited to facial masks, facial creams and those are are designed for oral ingestion. Marine collagen is not injected at the moment. Perhaps this will happen in the future, perhaps it won't.

Marine collagen does have a number of advantages over human and bovine collagen however. And it seems to work a bit differently than conventional collagen products. For one,marine collagen creams are meant to replenish and stimulate collagen within our bodies instead of just replenishing lost collagen. Marine collegen proteins that stimulates type III collagen within our skin. As collagen is a rather large molecule, it faces difficulty in passing through our skin. As such, new ways must be found to increase absorbtion rates. WIth conventional collagen, this is an easy fix through injections. With marine collagen, polypeptide technology is used. Polypeptides have been found to stimulate the synthesis of new collagen molecules in our skin.

Marine collagen is a new player in the collagen market. Which is one of the reasons why there is so little information about it anywhere. What is abundant instead, are marine collagen products. Loreal, Olay and Eleris are just 3 big names that have jumped on the marine collagen bandwagon and have a variety of creams and capsules for consumption.

Despite the claims of the various companies claiming the world and a half for it there haven't really been any concrete tests conducted on the long-term and short-term effectiveness of marine collagen unlike many plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery procedures. The same goes for any known side effects that may pop up from marine collagen usage. Perhaps a manufacturer would like to offer some samples for testing on a few lucky subjects on plastic-surgery.my? Until then, we have a lot of unanswered questions.

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