How to use
It should take about ten seconds
Foundation first: these go under the routine you already have, not instead of it. Here's what each one asks of your day — in every case, somewhere between one scoop and two capsules.
Morning
Marine Collagen + Vitamin C
One 10g scoop a day
Stir a scoop into your coffee and drink it as you normally would. Any drink works — coffee is just the one most people are already making, so it's the one they don't forget. Thirty scoops to a tub, which makes a tub a month.
Contains fish. Not vegetarian.
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Any time of day
Ceramides
One capsule a day
One vegan capsule with water. Nothing about it prefers a particular hour, so pick the point in the day you'll actually remember and leave the bottle there.
Vegan. No soy, wheat or lactose, and gluten-free.
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With a meal
Menopause Support
Two capsules a day
Two capsules with a meal and a full glass of water — food helps them settle. The label says meals rather than a meal, so one with breakfast and one with your evening meal is equally fine.
Contains soy. Don't take more than two capsules a day. Not for use if you're pregnant, breastfeeding or under 18, and speak to your doctor first if you take hormonal birth control or any prescribed medication.
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With a meal
Astaxanthin
One softgel a day
One softgel with whichever meal suits you. It's fat-soluble, so food helps — though the softgel already carries it in sunflower seed oil.
Contains gelatin, so it isn't vegetarian. Free of soy, dairy, gluten and tree nuts.
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Taking more than one
Most people here take one or two of them. If you take more than one, the easiest routine is the one with the fewest moving parts: the scoop goes into your first drink of the day, and the capsules go with a meal.
- Skin Duo — collagen and ceramides
- One scoop in your morning drink and one capsule alongside it. That is the entire routine.The bundle contains fish, and the ceramides' vegan and gluten-free labelling does not carry over to it.
- Collagen and menopause support
- Scoop with your first drink of the day, two capsules with a meal. They don't have to be the same part of the day.
- Adding astaxanthin
- One softgel with whichever meal you're already taking capsules at. It is the least demanding of the four.
Making it stick
The dose is the easy part. Doing it for long enough to judge it is the hard part, and that turns out to be mostly a question of where you keep things.
Attach it to something you already do
Habits stick to other habits far better than they stick to intentions. The kettle, the coffee machine, the toothbrush — pick the thing you do without deciding to, and put this next to it.
Keep it in sight, not in a cupboard
The tub beside the kettle, the bottle beside the toothbrush. A supplement in a cupboard is the one you find half-full a year later.
If you miss a day, just carry on
Take the next one as normal. Don't double up to catch up — the menopause capsules carry a do-not-exceed instruction on the label, and none of these work faster for being taken twice.
Before you start
These are supplements, not medicines, and the sensible order is to check first and start second if anything below applies to you. Everything in all four products is set out in the ingredient library, which is the page to take to a pharmacist.
Worth a conversation first
If you're pregnant, breastfeeding, under 18, taking prescribed medication or under a doctor's care, check before adding any supplement. Menopause Support carries its own label cautions, including a note for anyone using hormonal birth control. Take the pack with you — the label lists what's in it, which makes that a short conversation rather than a vague one.
Now the slow part
Taking it is the ten seconds. What changes, and how long it takes, is a longer answer than a page like this should pretend to give — so we've written that one down separately.
Nothing on this page is a medical claim. If you're pregnant, breastfeeding or taking prescribed medication, speak to your doctor before adding a supplement.