An 'anti-aging' gin to make you look younger

A UK-based company claims to have developed the world's first anti-aging gin, an alcoholic drink infused with collagen that may make you look younger.
The newly launched drink that costs about £35 a bottle may provide a novel way to consume collagen aside from the usual capsules available in the market. The beauty and cosmetic industry markets collagen because as people get older, they lose this valuable component, resulting in lack of firmness and wrinkles.
The alcoholic drink named ` AntiAGin', was developed by the UK-based Bompas and Parr, that creates food art using gelatin desserts. The 40% spirit is a combination of chamomile and tea tree scents. Other ingredients include witch-hazel, nettle, juniper, coriander and angelica root, the Tech Times reported.
“The ingredients were specifically chosen due to their revitalising qualities, including healing sun-damage, being rich in minerals, inhibiting scar formation and to help smooth cellulite,“ Warner Leisure Hotels, which commissioned the drink, wrote in its website.
According to Warner, the gin contains pure collagen “as well as a mix of anti-aging botanicals to help people look younger whilst having fun“. Collagen is naturally produced by the body, but as people age, its production diminishes. It is the most abundant protein in the body since it's literally found everywhere -in the bones, muscles, skin and tendons.
One of the reasons why collagen is reduced in the body is the exposure to ultraviolet light and other environmental factors which are dubbed as extrinsic aging. That is why some people may look older than others of their age.
Consuming products containing collagen or using beauty products with it as ingredient, could help reduce wrinkles and other signs of premature aging on the skin. “For those that want to do everything they can to stay young, but don't want to give up alcohol, this is surely the next best thing,“ NickyHambleton Jones, an anti-aging expert told Tech Times.