Vanilla Collagen Peptides Review: Boost Skin, Joint & Gut Health

Look, I didn’t wake up today planning to whine about my crumbling joints, pain in my hands and shoulders (YES, STILL!). I didn’t want to tell you that my face is slowly attempting to relocate toward my knees, but here we are.

Aging is a delightful, magical journey—

By “magical,” I mean discovering new, mysterious body creaks, moans, and pops every time I stand up to grab the TV remote or let Walter out for potty breaks. I want to shuffle and say ouch, ouch, ouch all the way to the door.

Enter Naked Nutrition Vanilla Collagen Peptides.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Connie, another supplement? Don’t you already have a full cabinet of powder promises that taste like ground-up chalk and disappointment?”

Fair question. But hear me out. One of my favorite companies on the internet is Naked Nutrition. From things that help me control my weight for instance, Sugar Cookies, Brownies (aka The Naked Bar) and so many, many other products.

Why My Shoulders and Face are Currently Calling a Truce

We all know collagen is supposed to be the holy grail for glowing skin, hair, and joints. But most collagen powders taste as if you scraped them off the ocean floor. Leave it to Naked Nutrition to make a collagen that actually tastes like vanilla, which immediately gives it a 1000% head start over the competition. Plus, it’s packed with Hyaluronic Acid, which is basically code for “please make my skin look like I drink 80 gallons of water a day even though 90% of my intake is coffee and spite.”

I use 2 scoops in my coffee every morning. I no longer use my fancy vanilla creamer! And my coffee is delicious!

Here’s the deal:

• Your Joints Will Stop Complaining (As Much): Is it a magic cure that stops your joints from causing pain from morning to night? Could I suddenly do cartwheels into the living room? Absolutely not. Don’t be ridiculous. I couldn’t do a cartwheel when I was a child; what makes you think I could do one NOW?!? But you might actually walk down the stairs in the morning without sounding like a bowl of Rice Krispies.
• Your Skin Might Remember Its 20s: Or at least pretend to. It gives you that nice, hydrated glow so you can pretend you slept 8 hours instead of doom-scrolling until 2 AM. Case in point, I ran into my friend Penny while in town; I hadn’t seen Penny in months. She commented about how great my skin looked!! WHAT!? Really?? WOW! Thank you.
• Your Gut Gets Some Much-Needed TLC: Collagen is packed with amino acids that help support and strengthen your digestive lining. So while it’s busy helping your joints stop groaning, and your skin look alive, it’s quietly doing secret repair work on your gut health, too.
• It Mixes Without the Drama: No mysterious floating gelatinous blobs at the bottom of your mug. It actually dissolves. High praise in the supplement world! I promise you, Naked Nutrition Collagen mixes better than ANY (I promise!) ANY other supplement I’ve ever used. No lumps. Nothing hanging out at the bottom of my coffee cup.

The Verdict

YES! You actually do need this. If we’re going to fight gravity and time, we might as well do it with something that tastes good and keeps our knees from groaning every time we bend down to pick up something off the floor.

Scoop it into your morning coffee, mix it into a smoothie, or stir it into milk and pretend it’s a fancy milkshake (I may have forgotten to mention there is also a chocolate flavor!! THAT would be a very tasty milkshake!) Your face, your gut, and your ankles will thank you.