A new beauty beverage’s marketing implies there’s a connection between electrolytes and hydrated skin, but the link is tenuous at best.
Most of the beauty benefits implied by this product’s description are attributed to its hyaluronic acid and a patented ceramide complex. The company even cites a clinical trial showing that the beverage’s ceramide complex is proven to deliver a 26 percent improvement in skin elasticity, a 21 percent increase in skin hydration, and an 18 percent reduction in wrinkles.
“With both of these ingredients, when you ingest them, they go through the digestive process. Once it’s digested, is it really being released and being taken up by the skin cells to be used? Or is it sending a signal to the skin cells to produce more ceramides and more hyaluronic acid?” Katta says there have been a few small animal and laboratory studies that have suggested the ingredients could act in that way when ingested, but it’s not a substantial body of research.
So, does that mean this drink or other beauty supplements or beverages with electrolytes, ceramide complexes, and hyaluronic acid are complete B.S.? Not exactly. Maybe time and more research will prove these ingredients can fix up a dry, wrinkly face as fast as vitamin C cures scurvy. But for now, all I can tell you for sure is that theyimprove your skin. And that leaves you to decide if the best possible results are worth the cost of the product .
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