Carnosine

How it works

A dipeptide made by your muscles and brain, sold in creams as an antioxidant that shields collagen from glycation, sugar damage.

What it's made of

2 amino acids (β-alanine and histidine). Your own body makes it, and there is a lot of it in muscle and brain. In the cream it goes in as is, unchanged.

What it's for

Prescribed for

Nothing, as a cosmetic.

Sold as

Antioxidant and “anti-glycation”: it protects collagen from sugar and from light.