3.4x ROAS for a Collagen Peptide Brand | Oney.Studio
Case Study · Meta Ads · E-Commerce · Health & Wellness

3.4x ROAS for a
collagen peptide brand

How we took a DTC collagen peptide brand from an inconsistent, frequently-disapproved Meta Ads account to a stable, scaling program - rebuilding around what Meta's health policy actually allows, from $6,200 to $55,900 in monthly conv. value in six months.

Oney.Studio · Performance Marketing
3.4x ROAS Sustained average
$0 Conv. Value / Month Month 6
9x Conversion Growth Month 1 to Month 6
Oney.Studio · Performance Marketing
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01: Context

The situation
we walked into

Client context

A U.S. collagen peptide brand (NDA)

A direct-to-consumer brand selling hydrolyzed collagen peptide powders and gummies for skin, hair, and joint support - a food-supplement category, not a drug or injectable one. Established on Amazon and DTC with a loyal repeat-purchase base, but Meta had never been a reliable channel.

The challenge

Inconsistent enforcement, real restrictions

Collagen peptides aren't a banned category on Meta the way injectable research peptides are - but Personal Health ad policy still restricts before/after imagery, disease-treatment language, and any targeting that infers a health condition. The brand's existing creative leaned on before/after skin shots and outcome claims, which meant intermittent disapprovals and an account Meta's system had started treating as higher-risk by default.

02: What We Did

Four moves.
One stable
account.

Build the claims around what Meta's health policy actually allows, not what reads best on paper. Every step aimed at delivery stability first, scale second.

01

Claims Framework Rebuild

Rewrote every headline and description around structure/function language Meta's health policy actually permits - "supports skin elasticity," "1g of hydrolyzed collagen per serving" - instead of outcome or disease-adjacent claims. Removed all before/after imagery and replaced it with ingredient, process, and lifestyle creative.

Disapprovals near zero
02

Interest-Based, Not Condition-Based, Targeting

Rebuilt audiences entirely around behavior and interest signals - skincare and wellness content engagement, competitor and complementary brand affinity, past purchasers - instead of anything that could read as inferring a health condition, which Meta's system had likely been quietly penalising the account for.

Delivery stability improved
03

Riding the Broader "Peptide" Conversation

Injectable research peptides had been getting heavy mainstream and biohacker-community coverage that quarter, pushing "peptides" into broader cultural search and social conversation. The brand sits in a completely different, compliant category - but the halo effect on the term itself lifted top-of-funnel curiosity. We leaned into educational creative explaining what collagen peptides actually are, capturing rising interest without borrowing any of its policy risk.

New prospecting audience
04

UGC and Subscription-Led Retargeting

Layered in creator content with visible disclosure and no exaggerated claims, paired with a retargeting sequence built around subscribe-and-save offers rather than one-time discounts - shifting the account's economics toward repeat-purchase LTV instead of first-order ROAS alone.

LTV up via subscriptions
03: Ad Creative & Messaging

Copy that converts
in a category Meta
watches closely.

Writing for Meta's health policy means staying in structure/function language, keeping imagery to product and lifestyle rather than body transformation, and letting real ingredient specifics do the persuading.

Feed · Brand
Prospecting
1g of Hydrolyzed Collagen, Every Scoop
Unflavored, dissolves in seconds, third-party tested. Add it to your morning coffee and forget it's there.
Feed · Educational
Category Education
Collagen Peptides vs. the Injectable Kind
You've probably seen "peptides" everywhere lately. Ours aren't injectable research compounds - they're a food-grade supplement backed by decades of nutrition research. Here's what that actually means.
Feed · Comparison
Differentiation
Not All Collagen Absorbs the Same Way
Hydrolyzed collagen is broken down for absorption before it reaches you. Most gummies and creams simply aren't. Here's the difference hydrolysis makes.
Reels · UGC
Customer Story
My 3-Month Honest Review
A real customer walks through her routine, what changed, what didn't, and why she reordered. No before/after claims - just her experience.
Story · Retargeting
Retargeting
Your Subscription, Simplified
Skip a month, swap products, cancel anytime. Subscribe and save 20% on the routine you're already using.
Advantage+ · Prospecting
Broad Prospecting
Backed by the Research You'd Actually Want to Read
Hydrolyzed for absorption. Third-party tested for purity. Built for people who read the label before they read the marketing.
04: Results

Feb 2026 to Jul 2026.
Unstable to compounding growth.

Stable delivery within a month of the rebuild. $55,900 in monthly conversion value by month six. And an account structure built to hold up as Meta's health policy keeps evolving.

Feb 2026
$0
Conv. Value
Legacy creative - frequent disapprovals, inconsistent delivery
Mar 2026
$0
Conv. Value
218 conversions - rebuild complete, delivery stabilizing
May 2026
$0
Conv. Value
631 conversions - 2.6x ROAS - subscription retargeting live
Jul 2026
$0
Conv. Value
1,242 conversions - 3.4x ROAS - 9x growth vs month one
Feb'26
Mar'26
May'26
Jul'26

Conv. value snapshot: Feb 2026 (legacy creative, $6,200 / 138 conv.) - Mar 2026 ($9,800 / 218 conv., rebuild complete) - May 2026 ($28,400 / 631 conv., 2.6x ROAS) - Jul 2026 ($55,900 / 1,242 conv., 3.4x ROAS). Claims framework rebuild, interest-based targeting, and subscription retargeting drove compounding growth across six months.

$0
Conv. Value / Month
Jul 2026 - up from $6,200 in the first month of the rebuild
3.4x
ROAS
Jul 2026 - up from an inconsistent, frequently-disapproved baseline
0
Conversions / Month
Jul 2026 - up from 138 in month one - a 9x increase in volume

Stable delivery within 30 days

Disapprovals dropped from roughly a quarter of new ads to near zero once claims and imagery were brought in line with Personal Health policy.

Growth without policy risk

No reliance on condition-based targeting or before/after proof - growth came from creative and offer testing, not from edging closer to a line Meta was already watching.

Subscription attach improved economics

A rising share of month six revenue came from subscription retargeting rather than first-time discount-driven orders, improving blended LTV beyond what first-order ROAS shows.

"
We kept losing weeks to disapprovals we didn't understand. Once we rebuilt around what Meta actually allows, the account finally became something we could plan a budget around.

- Client · U.S. Collagen Peptide Brand · E-Commerce · NDA

05: What We Offer

If you want similar results,
here's how we work.

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Facebook and Instagram advertising built to survive health and wellness policy review: compliant claims, interest-based targeting, and full-funnel creative testing.

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Conversion optimisation

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