Drink Your Way To Healthier Skin With This Lavender-Tinted “Beauty Water” That’s Made With Coconut & Pearl

If you’re always introducing your friend group to the next big beauty trend, Aphina needs to be on your radar — specifically, the brand’s Electric Beauty Vegas Water. While its pretty lavender color may be enough to have you convinced, the liquid supplement has been gaining buzz for the pearl powder that powers its formula. The beauty tonic and electrolyte hybrid is the latest launch from Canadian wellness brand Aphina, which gets its name from the Greek goddesses Aphrodite and Athena, and can be found in luxury grocery stores and retailers around the world like Erewhon and Selfridges. Ahead, learn more about the pearl powder-infused drink that helps to boost hydration and electrolyte levels, while also serving as a collagen supplement.

Fast Facts:

• Key benefits: hydrates, replenishes electrolytes, promotes healthy hair and skin
• Key ingredients: organic freeze-dried coconut water, freshwater pearl powder
• Flavored with lemon extract, blueberry extract, tangerine extract, and stevia
• Low in sodium (compared to traditional sports drinks)

Aphina’s Electric Beauty Vegas Water offers both health and beauty benefits with its blend of coconut water and pearl powder. The organic coconut water found in the supplement helps to keep you hydrated, but it also contains electrolytes like potassium, sodium, and magnesium, which are essential for many key body functions. But whereas the electrolytes found in typical sports drinks should be reserved for post-workout only as they tend to be high in sodium, Aphina’s liquid supplement can be used whether you’ve just exercised or it’s your rest day. That’s because the coconut water that the brand chose to use to provide electrolytes naturally has 8.5 times more potassium than sodium, allowing for one serving of the supplement to contain 20 milligrams of sodium.

Then there’s the freshwater pearl powder in the supplement, which has been a go-to ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years. Though more scientific studies are needed, pearl powder is believed to promote wound healing and collagen production in the skin because of an amino acid-rich protein that it contains called conchiolin. Not only could this help to soothe skin irritation, but because collagen is one of the main building blocks of the skin (and hair, bones, muscles, tendons, and ligaments), pearl powder’s potential collagen-stimulating abilities means improved skin elasticity, volume, and moisture. Additionally, Aphina notes that pearl powder contains the antioxidant enzyme superoxide dismutase (SOD) to help protect the body against oxidative stress that can contribute to skin damage, while coconut water is also thought to have antimicrobial and antioxidant benefits.

You only need to mix a tablespoon of the supplement into your water to reap the benefits, and you can use it once daily with or without exercising (though if you are drinking this after a particularly sweaty workout, the brand says you can add a pinch of Himalayan salt to ensure you’re getting enough sodium). Because it’s a liquid supplement, the Electric Beauty Vegas Water mixes right into your water without leaving any gritty or powdery texture behind. It's been flavored with blueberry extract, lemon extract, tangerine extract, and stevia to add a refreshing, fruity taste to your water, but you can also create your own drinks by mixing the supplement with other ingredients (Aphina has a fruity mocktail recipe on Instagram).

Of course, it’s also important to note that the beauty water is a supplement that might not be suitable for everyone (particularly if you’re taking other supplements or prescribed medications). While dietary supplements are regulated by the FDA, they aren’t approved to treat or prevent disease, which means they’re able to be produced and sold by companies without having to notify the FDA (basically, that means anything mislabeled or deemed unsafe tends to be identified after the supplement has made its way to store shelves). Because of this, you always want to speak with your doctor before incorporating a supplement of any kind into your routine.

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