Many people are unaware that as a medical product, each batch of Botox is tested in labs on friendly mice. As cosmetics testing is now banned in the UK, campaigners want Botox banned too for cosmetics use, as it’s kind of breaking the law to use it for this purpose.
Here are some kinder, cheaper and less painful alternatives, if you’ve laughed too much in life, and given yourself crow’s feet!
Beauty Gummies (results in 90 days)
Feel Beauty Gummies (code ‘partner20’ for 20% discount excluding bundles/existing subscriptions) are vegan and sold in sustainable packaging, promising results in 90 days. Just take 2 gummies a day to improve your hair, skin and nails.
Consult with your GP before taking supplements, if you take other supplements, are on medication or are pregnancy/nursing. Keep supplements away from children and pets. Recycled unused supplements/medicines at your local pharmacy.
Clinically proven, these gummies include Careflow® – an ingredient proven to help improve skin microcirculatoin and prevent collagen breakdown, plus vegan hyaluronic acid to repair skin and plump it up. Plus biotin and selenium for healthy skin, hair and nails.
The combination of biotin, selenium and vitamin C can transform dull lifeless hair, and biotin is good for a healthy scalp and promoting keratin (for strong hair and nails). You should find brittle nails also recover, and skin hydrates.
This supplement also contains a vegan-friendly version of hyaluronic acid (sodium Hyaluronate) that has a smaller molecular size, so it gets deeper into skin cells, and is more active to help plump up skin and hydrate it.
The supplement is also rich in biotin (symptoms of deficiency are hair loss, skin rashes and brittle nails).
Give the supplement around 90 days to have good effects, as it takes this long for new hair shafts to grow and skin cells to turn over. You may even see some more old hairs shed at first, to be replaced by longer, stronger ones. But in a couple of months, you should notice a real difference.
The World’s First Vegan Collagen Supplement
Feel Pro Collagen (code ‘partner20’ for 20% discount excluding bundles/existing subscriptions) is the world’s first vegan collagen supplement, formulated by nutrition experts, in sustainable packaging. In two flavours (peach strawberry or peach grapefruit), this promises results in 90 days.
The supplement helps your body to make its own collagen (rather than buying it from products made from cow collagen) to transform your skin, while also supporting hair and nail growth. This supplement is clinically proven to:
- Reduce fine lines and wrinkles by 22.4^ in just 28 days, and 32.9% in 8 weeks.
- Increase collagen production in the body by 135%
- Double collagen production within 2 days
- 80% of users in trials report great benefits to skin elasticity, hydration and suppleness
And unlike collagen from cows or fish, this absorbs 4 times better due to molecule size (and is the only collagen to identical to human type 1 collagen, containing all 18 amino acids.
This supplement is vegan-friendly and free from nasties. Just mix 2 teaspoons with 200ml to 300ml of water, and consume one serving per day (no more than 3 servings daily). One box provides 30 servings. Also as Watermelon Sachets or Collagen Gel.
Vegan Collagen (from a Miss World contestant)
Raw Beauty Lab offers a vegan collagen supplement trusted by over 20,000 happy customers. Created by a former Miss World contestant (and scientist – who obviously wanted more than world peace) and her husband, it’s sold with a reusable scoop and a special version for pregnancy (don’t use the other one as it contains vitamin A).
You should start seeing results within 4 weeks, and there are plenty of before/after photos to view before you buy. Just mix the powder (in plastic-free packaging) into water, juice or smoothies. Developed using research from Oxford University, the only caveat is that taking this won’t make you look like the founder!
Skin Saviour is a vegan collagen supplement sold in a metal tin for your first order, then buy refills in sustainable pouches. Formulated by expert nutritionists, this award-winning formula focuses on healing your digestive system, as gut healthy is strongly linked to skin conditions.
Take this at least 20 minutes before or after a hot drink, as the skin-friendly bacteria is effected by heat. Uses plant-based hyaluronic acid and also contains vitamin C.
Vegan Vitality (code ENGNAT15 for 15% discount) offers a vegan collagen that uses plant-based extracts like acerola cherry and bamboo, plus L-lysine, biotin and 5 essential vitamins. Sold in easily-recycled kraft paper packaging, this is 3rd party tested by independent labs for quality and safety. These supplements use a blend of vitamin C, silica, zinc and copper (along with protein amino acids) to help you create your own collagen naturally.
An Effective Plant-Based Collagen Supplement
Kind Collagen is the vegan version to animal collagen, ideal for older people who need a bit of help for youthful skin, beautiful hair and shiny nails! This supplement features plant-based hydrolysed collagen peptiles that closely mimic human collage. It also contains plant-based hyaluronic acid (some versions are from roosters) and vitamin C, to see improvements in just 8 weeks.
Users report a 53% reduction in fine lines and wrinkles, and a 47% reduction in hair fall. This collagen has a lower molecular weight, meaning it’s five times better absorbed than bovine (cow) or marine collagen. The tasteless powder is easily mixed into drinks.
A Natural Serum Alternative to Botox
Green People Line Eraser Serum is like a ‘natural Botox’ to help reduce appearance of crows’ feet and lip lines in 15 minutes. Use with Firming Eye Serum to plump skin around the eyes, within an hour. Made with natural vegan ingredients, sold in easy-to-recycle packaging.
Hibiscus tea should not be consumed during pregnancy/nursing, so it may be best to avoid this too.
Did you know that most ‘hyaluronic acid (often used in ‘anti-ageing creams & supplements) is from farmed roosters?
Anti-Wrinkle Paper Patches for your Face!
Frownies have been around since the 30s, when Hollywood stars would wear them overnight, before heading to the Oscars. These are temporary fixes that stick to your face using water-based adhesive for a few hours to ‘iron out wrinkles’. Do not use on neck area, nor under the eyes.
When you take them off, your wrinkles return! But they are cheap and harmless, acting like splits on lines between the eyes and crows’ feet. Just tear the perforations, massage your wrinkle lines for 10 seconds, then press and leave for a few hours, soaking with water to remove.