Our story
Born from friendship. Built on belief.
We are Aliza and Shana, best friends for over 25 years and co-founders of Pilates on the Beach, a studio we built from the ground up in Miami Beach in 2008.
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Wellness has always been at the center of everything we do. We became certified Integrative Nutritionists because we wanted to understand health at a deeper level, not just for our clients, but for our own families. As women who were getting older and paying close attention to what our bodies needed, collagen kept coming up.
A client came to us struggling to find a kosher collagen she could actually trust. The options were expensive, the sourcing was unclear, and the quality was inconsistent. We started looking into it for ourselves and were surprised by what we found: most collagen on the market had no meaningful quality certification, no transparency about sourcing, and often contained filler ingredients.
We started small. Fifty bags from Uline. A logo designed overnight. Our name. Then COVID hit, the studio went quiet, and we took it home. We posted about it. The response was immediate: fifty orders in a single day from people who had been looking for exactly this.
We packed it ourselves for longer than we probably should have.
Eventually we moved to a certified co-packer, built out our line, and The Absolute Collagen became what it is today:
- One ingredient
- Rigorously sourced
- OU Kosher Parve certified
- Third-party tested every lot
- Trusted by thousands of customers across the country and around the world
We started this because we believed in it. We still do. And we believe you will too.
XO, Aliza and Shana