Botanic Lab Launch Innovative Collagen Drink With Nutritionist Amelia Freer

British cold pressed juice innovators Botanic Lab have teamed up with nutritional therapist and best-selling author or Eat Nourish Glow, Amelia Freer, to produce a ground breaking beverage combining hydrolysed collagen, grapefruit and the powerful schisandra berry.

Shine, which launched this morning at Fenwicks of Bond Street, is the first organic, cold-pressed restorative with hydrolysed collagen on the market, from a brand that is know for challenging the norm and disrupting the thinking of the moment.

Speaking at the launch, Amelia Freer, whose celebrity clientele includes the likes of Sam Smith, said of the collaboration: “I’m so excited that more and more people will have access to collagen because of this drink. Collagen supports every cell in the body and it’s quite an amazingly powerful tool.”

Shine is floral and fruity with woody undertones and a hint of spice that owes its unique flavour to the hero schisandra berry – a staple of Chinese medicine and beauty ritual for millennia.

“It’s a complex, restorative formula that nourishes the body from within and it replenishes the building blocks that an active body needs to heal,” explained Christophe Reissfelder, co-founder of Botanic Lab.

But aside from the refreshing flavour, it’s the hydrolysed collagen (sourced from fish) that will see this product really make it’s mark as an ingestible beauty product. Broken down to aid the effective uptake and used by nutritionists for both its anti-inflammatory properties and the essential amino acids it provides, Freer explains that hydrolysed collagen furnishes components of the body’s own collagen production and helps balance blood sugar – slowing the release of sugar into the bloodstream, which in turn tempers insulin response.

The launch of Shine follows the brand’s previous pioneering beverage Kola+, which successfully recontextualised the cola bean.

Botanic Lab x Amelia Freer: Shine is available to buy online in boxes of 8 or at selected Botanic Lab stockists.