The Pharmacist Who Got Tired of Watching Collagen Fail His Patients

He knew why it wasn’t working. The industry didn’t want him to say it.

If you've ever tried collagen and quietly stopped, you're not alone.

Powders. Liquids. Gummies. Lattes. The collagen industry is worth nearly two billion pounds. Most women over 40 have tried at least one. Most stopped within a year.

Not because they gave up. Because nothing happened.
Maybe you gave it three months. Maybe you spent more than you wanted to. Maybe you told yourself it just wasn't for you.

But here's what nobody in the industry will tell you…

It probably wasn't the brand. It wasn't your age. It wasn't that you weren't consistent enough.

It was the format.

Here’s What Happens When You Take Collagen

You swallow it. You assume it gets to work. It doesn’t.

Collagen is a protein. Your stomach acid has one job: breaking down protein. Within minutes of swallowing a collagen powder or liquid, the peptides are destroyed. Broken down into amino acids before they ever reach the place they’re needed.

What your skin actually needs is intact collagen peptides delivered to the small intestine. That’s where 99% of absorption happens.

Standard collagen formats cannot do this.

It doesn’t matter if the label says 10,000mg or 5,000mg. That number is what enters your stomach. Not what reaches your skin.

The industry has been selling dose, not delivery. For decades. Which is why you tried it. Felt nothing. And stopped.

99%

of nutrient absorption happens in the small intestine. Most
collagen never makes it that far.

So Why Does
Nobody Fix It?

Because making collagen that actually survives your stomach is hard.

It took one pharmacist ten years.

Pupinder Ghatora is an award-winning pharmacist. MPharm, MRPharmS qualifications. Honoured at 10 Downing Street. He’d spent years recommending collagen supplements to patients. Trusted brands. Reasonable doses. Taken consistently.

And he kept watching the same thing happen. They’d come back. Nothing had changed. He knew the science worked. The delivery didn’t.

The more he dug into it, the clearer it became. The entire category was built around a number on a label. Nobody was asking whether the collagen actually survived long enough to do anything.

So he started working with David Hyland, a pharmaceutical R&D consultant who had come across a Harvard Medical Journal paper on collagen’s effects on arthritis. His wife was experiencing early symptoms. The products available weren’t cutting it.

Together they founded Ingenious Laboratories in 2014. And spent the next decade solving one problem.

How do you get collagen to the only place in the body where it can be absorbed?

The answer… a patented enteric capsule. Made from 100% natural cellulose. It survives stomach acid intact. Travels to the small intestine. Releases there.

Where 99% of absorption actually happens. Not into your stomach. Not broken down into amino acids your body uses for something else entirely.

Into your skin.

What's inside each capsule:

Marine Collagen · 627mg

Low molecular weight hydrolysed collagen peptides. Small enough to be
absorbed as collagen, not broken down as protein fuel.

Hyaluronic Acid · 200mg

Binds up to 1,000x its weight in water. Restores the moisture your skin stops producing with age.

Natural Astaxanthin · 4mg

An antioxidant 6,000x more potent than vitamin C. Protects the collagen once it arrives at your skin.

Then They Ran a Proper Trial

Most “clinically proven” claims in the supplement industry are consumer surveys.

Self-reported. Uncontrolled. The company picks the results it likes.

This wasn’t that.

Cutest, the UK’s leading independent dermatological testing organisation, ran the trial. 116 women aged 30 to 60. 12 weeks. Double-blind. Half on Collagen+, half on a placebo. Neither group knew which.

The results, measured under clinical conditions…

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%

Experienced a reduction in fine
lines and wrinkles by up to 85%

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Replenished skin
hydration by up to 80%

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Improved skin elasticity
by up to 83%

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Experienced improvements
in skin quality

"The results of this study are remarkable, proving with robust, direct, scientific evidence that Ingenious Collagen+ really works."

Author

Luigi Martini

Honorary Professor of Pharmacy at University of Birmingham

What Women Taking It Say

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“I’ve been taking various others for 3–4 years and none really seemed to make any noticeable difference. These really do.”

Jackie · Verified buyer
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“The collagen is the best quality and actually works, unlike others I’ve tried. I have noticed a difference in the depth of my expression lines for the first time ever.”

Elizabeth · Verified buyer
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“I’ve been using ingenious for a few years now and my skin has never looked better. It feels plump and it’s definitely helped my fine lines.”

Sarah · Verified buyer
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“I’ve used this product for a year. I’m 35. I get stopped on the road with comments from strangers about how beautiful I look. I have tried a few collagen supplements in the past and none led to these reactions.”

Eunice · Verified buyer
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“I’ve been taking these capsules for about 3 years now and am still extremely happy with the results. My skin is soft, plump and fine lines and wrinkles are reduced.”

Rachel · Verified buyer
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“My skin is much improved since taking Ingenious Collagen. I regularly get comments as fine lines appear reduced and my skin is glowing. I can’t see that I will ever stop taking it now.”

Lesley · Verified buyer
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  • Backed by a double-blind trial of 116 women
  • Patented capsule, for maximum absorption
  • 627mg of marine collagen, 200mg hyaluronic acid, 4mg astaxanthin
  • Made in Britain · B Corp · No fillers
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Most collagen never reaches your skin. This one is built to.

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