Copper peptides are suddenly everywhere in anti-aging skincare, but do they actually work?
In this episode of Beauty Backroads, I’m going down another beauty rabbit hole to look at why copper peptides have become such a buzzy ingredient, what the science actually says, and where I think the marketing may be getting a little ahead of the evidence.
Copper peptides, especially GHK-Cu, have been studied for decades because of their relationship to things like tissue repair, wound healing, collagen, elastin, and inflammation.
We’ll talk about what copper peptides actually are, why researchers became interested in them, what we know about their potential benefits for aging skin, and one of the biggest questions that doesn’t get discussed enough:
Can topical copper peptides actually get where they need to go in the skin to do what brands say they can do?
The more you know, the more you glow!
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