Sparkle Wellness Skin Boost Plus. I’ve been wanting to review this one for a while now.
Find it here: https://amzn.to/3Tuuv23
Other videos you may enjoy:
Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides | Results After 2 Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN6MIFq8LF0&t=58s
Ancient Nutrition Multi Collagen Protein Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ez-ue1u2AU&t=29s
Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides Side Effects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgJvWFZEZHI
Most Don’t Know This About Hyaluronic Acid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtn0zDkKbRE&t=83s
In this not sponsored review video we’ll go through 7 categories.
1.Quality of Ingredients
2. How much to take and when to take i,
3. Possible Benefits
4. Possible Side Effects
5. Availability
6. Cost
7. Taste
You can find each on easily in the chapters listed below.
0:00 – 7 Categories
0:40 – Is it Keto?
1:35 – Ingredients
6:49 – Verisol Collagen
8:21 – How Much to Take and When to take it
10:53 – Possible Benefits
14:33 – Possible Side Effects
16:23 – Availability
17:03 – Cost
17:56 – Compared to Vital Proteins
18:33 – Taste
Research:
Scientific Studies to investigate the effectiveness of Verisol.
https://www.gelita.com/en/products/collagen-peptides/Verisol
Reduces wrinkles and fine lines
https://karger.com/spp/article-abstract/27/3/113/295769/Oral-Intake-of-Specific-Bioactive-Collagen?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Increased skin elasticity
https://karger.com/spp/article-abstract/27/1/47/295741/Oral-Supplementation-of-Specific-Collagen-Peptides?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Decreases Cellulite
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jmf.2015.0022
Increases hair thickness
https://www.nutrafoods.eu/index.php/nutra/article/view/9/6
Improves nail growth and strength
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jocd.12393
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Let’s give it a taste okay well today in this notsponsored video we are going to review Sparkle skin Boost Plus from a company called Sparkle Wellness this is a collagen peptides product I’ve been wanting to do this review for quite some time I’m excited to share it with you
I’m finally getting to it and today we’re going to go through seven categories the quality of the ingredients how how much to take and when to take it possible benefits possible side effects the availability the cost and the taste so let’s Jump Right In with quality of ingredients so
Before we take a close look at the ingredients in this first I want to answer the question is this keto I want to make sure I’m addressing that for all my keto and low carb friends out there you’re doing ketogenic diet or very low carb diet and you’re wondering can I
Take this the answer is yes yes you can there’s no carbs no sugar whatsoever now the caveat is if you’re really trying to make sure you’re not going to get kicked out of ketosis there’s something you need to pay attention to this is a very lean protein and a lean protein is going
To cause an influence on insulin it’s going to spike it up there if you’re really wanting to be careful about staying in ketosis take this along with a little bit of healthy fat so if you’re going to take this with say an herbal tea or your coffee you want to add in a
Little bit of heavy cream or if want to do it with a smoothie like I do I put it in a green smoothie I add a little bit of extra virgin olive oil so let’s take a close look at the ingredients when we are evaluating a product a supplement or
Some sort of packaged product and we’re looking at ingredients there’s a couple of things we want to look for one how long is the list is the list really really long or is it relatively short is it full of lots of chemical sounding names that are very hard to pronounce
Let alone understand we also want to ask well how much sugar is there are they’re added sugars if it’s sweetened with something other than sugar what are they using does it contain oils if so what kind of oils does it contain are the ingredients natural does it contain artificial ingredients artificial
Flavoring artificial coloring and what about preservatives so these are some things that we want to keep in mind if the list of ingredients is relatively long like really long you’ve seen them you know what I’m talking about and it’s full of ingredients that are very chemical sounding very difficult to
Pronounce let alone understand if there’s lots of added sugars partially hydrogenated oils or hydrogenated oils or any kind of industrial seed oil if there’s a lot of artificial flavors artificial coloring a long list of preservatives these are things that should raise a red flag you should it
Should be a warning sign for you to take a closer look it should give you an idea or should tell you that this may not be something that’s going to move your health in the direction that you want on it too so when when I look at this we
Look at the ingredients on this one I see that there’s very few ingredients there’s not this really long list and all the ingredients are pretty easy to understand they have vitamin C hyaluronic acid verisol collagen and says verisol bovine collagen peptides there’s a little bit of sodium but it’s
That’s probably what they’re they’re probably using that as a preservative and it’s just a very small amount for me that is very comforting to know that one it’s very short list I recognize every one of them I like that they are adding vitamin C when it comes to collagen when
You are taking collagen supplement or you’re you’re consuming collagen from natural food sources it’s not like we’re building a clay sculpture we’re not just taking more clay and adding it and then so you have more Clay on the sculpture like we’re not taking collagen and adding it to the collagen we already
Have it doesn’t quite work that way we’re ingesting collagen in and it’s broken down into peptides in this case it’s collagen peptides your body goes through a process of taking those peptides and building collagen in your body we’re supplying the building blocks but your body still has to go through
This process of building collagen that your body can use and in order to do that you need to have other nutrients you need to have vitamin C copper zinc silica and there’s a number of things that that are involved in that process I think it’s really really cool that they
Include vitamin C along with this product I think that you know we can give them marks for that however I personally prefer to get my vitamin C in from natural food sources I don’t like to rely on supplemental form of vitamin C that’s kind of me kind of my
Preference right and it’s kind of me being a little bit picky it’s not going to bring the quality of this down again I think it’s a positive thing that’s great I don’t know that it’s absolutely necessary but it’s cool that they put it in there the other thing that’s awesome
Is they include hyaluronic acid so they have I think it’s 100 gram of hyaluronic acid let’s see yeah 100 no I’m sorry 100 milligrams 100 grams would be way too much but 100 milligrams of hyaluronic acid as far as I know that’s the most hyaluronic acid I have seen in a
Collagen supplement if we take um vital proteins they also have a version of their collagen that includes hyaluronic acid and it’s for if I remember correctly they in include 90 mg of hyaluronic acid now if you’ve seen another one that has more than that please let me know for me that’s a
Pretty big plus for this product it’s really cool that they’re doing that now even though this has probably more than most other collagen supplements in terms of hyaluronic acid I still feel like it it’s a little bit shy of where it should be having done a lot of research and
Reviewing hyaluronic acid multiple hyaluronic acid studies I have seen uh those studies range from about 85 Mig to 640 Mig somewhere in that range but the vast majority of them in between that 80 and 640 milligram range are right around 200 migr that’s the bulk of the studies
That are being done in humans for hyaluronic acid and benefits of hyaluronic acid as far as I’m concerned this Falls a little bit shy even though it’s better than most other products it would be nice if it had just a a little bit more it’s it’s going to still give
You a benefit but for me personally I think that if it had a little bit more than that it would be you know even better and closer to what you would want to see in a hyaluronic acid supplement even though this is they’re not focusing on that they’re including it so I wanted
To point that out okay so the star of the show of course is the verisol collagen verisol is a highly bioactive form of collagen it’s made by a company called gelita now think of gelita not as a name brand but as a supplier of verisol collagen to other brands there’s
Multiple Brands out there that include verisol collagen vital proteins for example they have their um professional version you’ll they have the blue one the pink one the green one and those include verisol collagen okay so it’s not just a sparkle Wellness thing you may have heard of it there’s a lot of
Hype around it there’s a lot of benefits and there’s really good science around it which we’re going to talk about in a a little bit so what really makes this product Sparkle is the verosol collagen and in this particular one skin boost plus there are five grams of verosol
Collagen which is important we’ll talk about that in just a minute so when we look at the ingredients overall if I was to give it a ranking on a scale of 1 to five you know this this is really close to a five I’d like to give it a five but
Me being really nitpicky I would say a 4.8 what would make it a five would be if they had more hyaluronic acid they’re putting it in there right I would like to see the full amount I would like to see 200 milligrams of hyaluronic acid in each serving the downside to that would
Be it would make this quite a bit more expensive and that’s probably what they’re trying to do they’re trying to balance it out with how can we make this really amazing product and not be overly priced okay so how much should we take so let me show you something really
Quick see this little container right here this has 30 servings in it okay see this gigantic container right here see the comparison vital proteins collagen this is their Standard Version I’ve talked a lot about this on my channel and this has 30 servings wait a minute how why is this
So small this is collagen and why is this so big this is collagen and this has 30 servings compared to this with their 30 serving what what’s going on here it actually goes back to what we talked about earlier barisol collagen is highly bioavailable so you only need a
Small amount to get the similar benefits to something like this so in this one you’re going to want to get a minimum of about 10 gram per day people will take anywhere between 10 to 20 grams per day this one or verisol specifically you only need about 2.5 Gram now this one
The skin Boost Plus version right this has actually five grams of verisol and that’s really all that you need so when it comes to how much should we take you really only need to take five grams and it should really be one serving of this I think there’s a scoop in here we’ll
Find out later if that’s the case you only really need to do one scoop that brings us to our next question when should we take it so think about collagen as more like food this is an addition to your daily diet it’s not a medication so the timing of it does not
Not have to be very precise right you can take this in the morning you can take this after a workout you can take it in the evening the best way to think about it is take it whenever you think you’re going to be the most consistent
If you feel like just getting up in the morning that’s one of the first things you do in the morning then that’s when you should take it if you if you can do it consistently if for you if you’re part of your routine to go to the gym or
Do your workout whatever you do you come home and you have like a post-workout type of meal or something and you feel like you can do that consistently then do it then if if you can make it part of your a regular part of your evening
Routine then do it then a lot of people like to take it at night because it helps them sleep I personally like to take this in the morning so you’ll just have to decide well when when can you take it consistently on a daily basis and then that’s probably the best time
That you should take it hey if you’re liking today’s video please hit the like button and remember to subscribe thank you okay so how about the benefits well in order to kind of discuss the benefits I’m going to look over here at my laptop top and go through some notes we’re
Going to go through some studies and all these studies I’m going to link in the description below in case you want to read them now the first one is a double blind plus febo controlled study they took 69 women between ages 35 and 55 years and they were looking for higher
Skin elasticity they gave them collagen or verisol collagen specifically and it revealed that verisol collagen leads to significantly higher skin elasticity and that was up to 15% compared to the placebo treatment this effect could be measured after just four weeks so after four weeks they seen an improvement in skin elasticity and
This persisted after 8 weeks of oral verisol collagen Administration so there was another study and this one showed they were looking for reduction in wrinkles and that’s what they found more than 100 women age between 45 and 65 years showed that oral administration of verisol collagen 2.5 gram per day significantly reduce
Wrinkles after Just 4 weeks so remember we were saying you only really need 2.5 gram per day this one has five gram so we got our bases covered right so let’s look at a third study the third study was another double blind randomized Placebo controlled study which is the
Gold standard that’s really what you want to look for they’re not always perfect but that’s the high that’s kind of the gold standard of scientific studies and in this study it showed improvements in skin surface structure and decreased cellulite wo that’s cool who would have known that taking a collagen supplement could improve
Meaning decrease cellulite that’s pretty awesome the effect was measured after 3 to 6 months of supplementation verosol supplementation also reduced the Wess of the skin with first results visible after 3 months but more pronounced after 6 months yet another study we’ll look at this one more this was bioactive
Collagen peptides which is what this is verisol bioactive collagen peptides says that it can can help to improve growth and health of fingernails I have to tell you when I first started taking collagen a little over two years ago the very first thing that I noticed and I wasn’t
Even taking verosol collagen I was taking uh vital proteins this their Standard Version right which has been awesome and the first thing I noticed was my fingernails they were growing like crazy super fast in fact they’re still growing like crazy and I have to cut them they too long right now I don’t
Know if you can see that but so in this study it showed that a decrease of cracked and or chipped Nails after just two months of treatment reaching a decrease of 42% after 6 months so made their finger nails stronger verosol led to a statistically significant Improvement in
Nail growth after 3 months of treatment at the same time there’s a notable Improvement in nail peeling and a clearly decreased nail Edge irregularity 80% % of the patients were completely satisfied with verisol collagen or their verisol treatment and 75% of women perceive their nails as longer 71% said
Their nails grew faster and became longer so these are really good numbers 80% 75% 71% that said there’s like 20 to 30% where people might not have been super satisfied or might not have noticed those same results so it’s important to keep that in mind as well even though this sounds amazing it’s
It’s not 100% for everyone so let’s talk about now possible side effects when it comes to collagen supplements side effects are pretty rare but if they do happen usually it’s going to be some kind of gut discomfort for example I have taken a lot of different collagen
Supplements I’ve tried a bunch of them of all of them I’ve been just fine until I tried their um vital proteins professional product which also has verisol collagen we mentioned about earlier when I took this one I I don’t remember remember if it was a week or
Two weeks or what it was but I started experiencing some pretty significant constipation and oh man it was enough to where I just couldn’t keep taking this because I’m all plugged up it very uncomfortable so I had to stop I’m hoping I’m hoping that my experience
With this one is going to be better I’m a little bit doubtful because they both have verisol collagen and I’m I’m trying to figure out or I’m trying to isolate that whether it’s the verosol specifically or if it’s something else both of them have very few ingredients so I’m guessing it’s probably the
Verosol maybe my body just my digestive tract is just isn’t uh down with verisol collagen we’ll see so other possible side effects when taking any type of collagen supplement whether that’s a ver one that has verisol or not could include gas bloating diarrhea and constipation like we just talked about
Or headache dizziness trouble sleeping or even a skin rash and in very rare cases uh it people might experience anaphylaxis which is a scientific way of saying an allergic reaction if that happens then you need to stop immediately and go seek medical attention because then they can get kind
Of dangerous once again side effects with taking collagen supplements are tend to be very very rare but they can happen and hopefully this information gives you an idea of what to expect if you actually do experience side effects what about availability I found this on Amazon I found this on their website and
Also another website called foreign molam mars.com I’ve never heard of that before if you’ve seen it on other uh websites please let me know if you’ve seen it in stores I haven’t seen it in stores I haven’t gone looking you know specifically for it in stores but I
Don’t remember seeing it in any of places that I’ve gone if you have please let me know in the comments below that would be interesting but as far as availability is concerned I’d give it a pretty low score about 2 2.5 out of five just because it seems like the only
Option is to buy it online thankfully most of us have access access to ordering things online if you don’t well you may have a hard time getting this all right so let’s move on to cost as I mentioned I got this from Amazon and I paid $42.5 one thing we notice about Amazon
Is the P prices will vary they’ll go up and down in fact I looked at this again just a few days maybe a week after I ordered it and the price was $39.50 for a onetime purchase if you do a subscribe and save you can get it for $ 3555 so
There’s a little bit of a discount there if you go on their website you’re going to see it for a one-time purchase of $ 39.50 which exactly what it was I I just got uh stuck buying it paying a little bit more for this I guess if you go on
Their website again and you do a subscribe and save you can get it for 3555 so you will get a little bit of a savings there it’s about the same on Amazon if you see it for more on Amazon just wait for a few days and it will go
Down and if you don’t want to wait go to their website and just order directly from their website let’s compare that to it’s what I would consider probably their closest competitor the vital proteins professional version I paid $59 for this on their website and you can do
The Subscribe and save option and you’ll get it for $44.25 once again 30 servings 30 servings of course I don’t know maybe they’ve changed their prices I haven’t looked for a while but if I’m comparing the two this is the better deal this is the better option so from a cost
Perspective hopefully that gives you an idea H you know it would be nice if it was less than that but when it when we’re comparing it to the other options available this is very fairly priced okay so that brings us to taste let me uh open this up I haven’t opened this
Yet I haven’t tasted yet I want to I wanted to do this on camera for this video okay um right away it’s kind of got that sealed o and there is a scoop unlike other col popular collagen products they have a scoop awesome got my water and my cool blue straw and this
Clear glass let’s the grains look the powder looks pretty powdery it looks like sand actually it’s not very fine one scoop here we go this size right here let’s put it in here right away it kind of floats a little bit you can see it dropping down you know very flaky my experience
Has been with collagen that they very very very rarely mix well in like a cooler temperature water I want to taste this this is their unflavored version what I’ve noticed also is unflavored does not mean that it’s flavor less there is usually still a flavor you can see that just like most
Other collagen Brands this is not mixing extremely well this is like kind of a little bit cooler than room temperature water let’s give it a taste okay well it does not taste awesome it’s not horribly bad it’s that very typical collagen unflavored but not flavorless collagen taste uh I don’t like
It that you know it’s not making me gag I could get through it but it’s not something that I would prefer to do it’s not something I would recommend so when it comes to taking this collagen don’t go purely on taste go on the science go
On the benefit that you might get these possible benefits that you know very highly likely based on the studies that you’re going to see some good benefits from taking this Cen I would recommend taking it with something like my personal preference is to I make a green
Shake like it’s e either kale or spinach along with a handful of mixed berries typically blueberries or strawberries or blackberries raspberries something like that and I add some sort of sweetener along with some water the sweetener is usually monk fruit add my collagen and I’m good to go it tastes great
This I’m going to drink it cuz I don’t want to waste the serving but this does not taste great it is not good really not good at all I’m going to take this for the next 30 days and see if I have any you know strange side
Effects like I did when I tried this other one right here we earlier we talked about Hy IC acid hyaluronic acid and collagen go hand in hand in helping promote optimal skin Health if you want to learn more about hyaluronic acid check out this video right over here
