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Try these collagen-boosting beauties to help firm and plump your complexion.

• When a dermatologist makes their own skincare you know it’s going to get good results, and Complete Night Shield ($260 for 50ml) from Bespoke Skin Technology, which was co-founded by Dr Katherine Armour, is a cocktail of nourishing squalene, aloe vera and shea butter mixed with some powerful retinaldehyde (a vitamin A derivative that helps to exfoliate and boost collagen production), antioxidants and resveratrol.

• A luxurious and nourishing cream, Doctor Babor Collagen Booster Cream ($264 for 50ml) uses a collagen booster peptide to stimulate the skin’s own fibroblasts to produce collagen to help firm and plump the skin.

• A new Australian food-based beauty company, Optima Nutricosmetics, spent years researching and clinically testing its Ultimate Complete Skin Nutrition powder ($159 for 392g/28 serves) until founders Cate Lilja and Karissa

Mathers had the perfect formula for ultimate gut and skin health. This potent powder is made with 10,000mg (per serve) of marine collagen peptides for glowing skin, pre and probiotics for a healthy gut, antioxidants and a host of vitamins.

• is Clinical Super Serum Advance + ($259 for 30ml) is loaded with 15 per cent vitamin C along with copper tripeptide-1 that both stimulates natural collagen production and helps to smooth lines.

• With a focus on copper peptide, NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Lipid 1% ($135 for 15ml) helps to stimulate collagen and fibroblast production as well as general skin healing. It’s bundled with plant-based squalane, algae and an extract of vetiver root to help plump and firm the skin.

• If you’re after a super dose of vitamin C to help support your collagen supplies, try Dr Dennis Gross C+ Collagen Deep Cream ($115 for 50g). It uses a stabilised form of vitamin C that brightens and goes to work on fine lines, while plantbased collagen and some lovely oils nourish the skin.