Peptides have quietly become the backbone of modern anti-ageing skincare, and unlike most trends, this one is built on solid biochemistry. Peptides are short chains of amino acids, small enough to be absorbed where larger molecules like collagen itself cannot go, and they work by talking to your skin rather than sitting on top of it.

What do peptides actually do?

Different peptides carry different messages. Signal peptides tell the skin to produce and protect its own collagen, the protein network that keeps skin firm. Other peptides work on expression lines, the ones that form where the face moves most. And skin-identical peptides reinforce the skin's structure directly. The common thread: peptides do not replace what the skin has lost. They ask the skin to rebuild it.

Why not just apply collagen?

Because it does not work. The collagen molecule is far too large to get past the surface of the skin, which is why collagen creams have always promised more than they deliver. Peptides are the workaround nature allows: small enough to reach down, specific enough to matter.

What can you expect?

Peptides are gradual by design. Some effects show quickly, like the smoothing of expression lines, while firmness and elasticity build over weeks of daily use. That is not a weakness. It is how genuine structural change works, as opposed to the instant effects that rinse off.

Peptides the Jorgobé way

We use peptides where they earn their place. Our Collagen Peptide Serum combines five of them: Argireline® for expression lines, Matrixyl® Synthe'6® and Syn®-Coll CB to help the skin build its own collagen, Vecollage® Fortify GP, a piece of collagen identical to the skin's own type III, and carnosine, which protects the collagen already there. In a placebo-controlled study at the same dose as in the serum, one of the peptides increased the skin's collagen density by 22% in four weeks. Like everything we make, it is vegan, made in Denmark, and free from parabens and silicones.