Thirty days of smearing what looks like Windex on my face twice a day. My skin texture is unrecognizable — not in a “I look 12” way, but in a “my pores finally shut up” way.
The real shock? My skin stopped being reactive. No random red patches after my morning coffee. That’s the detail no one tells you.
NIOD calls this a copper peptide serum. It’s $80 for 30ml. The claim that got me: “skin restructuring.” I wanted my collagen to get its act together.
5% copper tripeptide-1
The highest stable concentration I’ve seen. Most brands cap at 1-2%.
Water-free base
No dilution. No filler. It’s straight active — and it stings a little at first.
Blue from copper, not dye
That electric color is the actual copper. Your face will look like a Smurf for 90 seconds.
Photo: Christian Agbede / Unsplash
Four ingredients doing the heavy lifting. No fragrance, no essential oils, no nonsense. The formula is aggressively minimal — which I respect.
- Copper Tripeptide-1: signals collagen production like a tiny construction foreman
- Acetyl Hexapeptide-8: muscle relaxant that softens expression lines
- Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38: firms without irritation
- Hydrolyzed Yeast Protein: holds hydration so skin doesn’t get angry
Photo: Lucas Sankey / Unsplash
Texture is slippery — almost silicone-like. Absorbs in 10 seconds flat. Leaves a slight tackiness that makeup hates. Week one: my chin broke out. I almost quit.
Week two: breakouts dried up. By week three, my skin had this weird bounce — like a mattress that finally got replaced. Unexpected: the morning puffiness in my cheeks? Gone.
Photo: Tariq Iqbal / Unsplash
Nasolabial folds? Still there. But the overall texture change is real — my skin feels dense, not loose. Pores are visibly smaller at week four. Fine lines around my eyes softened maybe 20%.
I’m buying another bottle. My skin looks like it actually sleeps now, and I take my coffee black again without turning into a tomato.