Glow Recipe Pomegranate Peptide Firming Serum: Guru Score 64%

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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~Yay

"This is a very mild serum, mild, non-irritating and hydrating. The Glow Recipe Pomegranate Peptide is so beautiful. Skin normal to dry, sensitive, they are going to absolutely love it. It is one kind of copper peptide within two weeks you will see some great results."

All 3 takes from Nipun Kapur

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"Glow Recipe pomegranate peptide, you have copper peptide in a good concentration but it's not as important as, you know, the Ordinary one."

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"This is a very mild serum, mild, non-irritating and hydrating. The Glow Recipe Pomegranate Peptide is so beautiful. Skin normal to dry, sensitive, they are going to absolutely love it. It is one kind of copper peptide within two weeks you will see some great results."

James Welsh

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~Yay

"I fell in love with the Glow Recipe Pomegranate Peptide Firming Serum within a month's usage. It's a great peptide serum, plumping and firming, but also just a great daily use serum with some great antioxidants and hyaluronic acid. It just makes your skin look pretty great."

All 4 takes from James Welsh

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"We have Pomegranate in here. On the website they say they use all parts of the Pomegranate, including the oil, seeds extract and enzymes to provide strength and elasticity to the skin to soften, soothe and tighten the look of skin. It's an antioxidant as well. And then Hyaluronic Acid in here. So it's a really good kind of everyday use, morning, evening, helps hydrate, helps firm. My skin just really, really enjoys this. I think for me the hydration, the moisture of this serum is what keeps bringing me back to it. And the added benefit of Peptides which I hope using it as a preventative measure, I will see the benefits of in five years time."

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"If you're not really getting along with retinols try and get into peptides and see how you get on because I'm really enjoying this so far. I f*cking love this so much. So, so much."

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"I fell in love with the Glow Recipe Pomegranate Peptide Firming Serum within a month's usage. It's a great peptide serum, plumping and firming, but also just a great daily use serum with some great antioxidants and hyaluronic acid. It just makes your skin look pretty great."

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"Glow Recipe's Pomegranate Peptide Firming Serum, this is my fifth bottle of this. It has copper tripeptide 1, hydra peptide, poly peptide 1 alongside hyaluronic acid and pomegranate, an antioxidant, so you get this plumping, firming, hydrated skin."

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~Mixed

"I wanted to test out the Glow Recipe Pomegranate Peptide Firming Serum. It's 45 bucks for 1 ounce. It's a peptide serum with pomegranate, which is a great antioxidant for your skin, vitamin E, squalane. It does contain fragrance. I have a feeling it'll smell like pomegranate, which is kind of what Glow Recipe does. Typically fruit scents don't bother me too much on my nose or my migraines, but my skin, we'll see."

AliceintheRabbitHole

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~Nay

"This is the Pomegranate Peptide Firming Serum, and I'm so grateful I only picked it as a Sephora sample. It looked nice initially with ingredients like copper peptide, but I can't help but feel like this was released just because peptides were popular at the time rather than any real innovation. For me it didn't deliver on any of the benefits I've seen from peptides, it just hydrates and that's about it."

Dr. Jenny Liu

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~Yay

"Another great anti-aging serum that doesn't contain retinol or alpha hydroxy acid is from Glow Recipe their Pomegranate Peptide Firming Serum. It's beautifully packaged with a magenta red color. [...] It contains a few different ingredients that can help target fine lines and wrinkles. Number one, it contains a polypeptide complex including copper tripeptide, which [...] has been shown to be one of those peptide complexes that can help improve appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, and to support collagen and elastin production. It also contains extracts from pomegranate that is rich in antioxidants along with hyaluronic acid. So just a really nice serum to work into anyone's routine who has concerns of wanting to improve skin aging, fine lines, and wrinkles. With the ingredients it works really well, even layering it with retinol if one wants to."

Sincerely Miss Ash

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~Nay

"I am a huge fan of the ordinary copper peptides and that one is half the price. For me personally I wouldn't pick this over the ordinary copper peptides and I also wouldn't choose this over the Neostrata. I feel like the ordinary and Neostrata are formulated perfectly. I have seen the best results with those and for the price point I much prefer to use those. The one from the ordinary and from Neostrata, they contain more anti-aging ingredients and so I just feel like to spend $61 on this, it's just not worth it for me. But I do think it's a great option if you love this brand and you want something that has that creamy texture, something that is a little bit more moisturizing on the skin. This one is not sticky or tacky once it's dried down and it does layer up nicely with the products that I have used with it and it always sat nicely underneath my makeup as well. So although I think this is a lovely option for an anti-aging serum, I just don't feel like it's worth $61 for what it is."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Peptides

Peptides are short protein fragments meant to signal repair. The evidence for them is thinner than for retinoids or vitamin C, and it varies a lot by the specific peptide, so the category is more promising than proven.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is Glow Recipe Pomegranate Peptide Firming Serum?

A lightweight serum combining peptide complexes, pomegranate extract, and hyaluronic acid designed to support skin firmness, hydration, and the appearance of fine lines.

Is Glow Recipe Pomegranate Peptide Firming Serum worth it?

The gurus are split. 3 of the 6 gurus give it their stamp of approval while 2 would skip it, which lands it in the middle at a Guru Score of 64%.

What is Glow Recipe Pomegranate Peptide Firming Serum's Guru Score?

Glow Recipe Pomegranate Peptide Firming Serum holds a Guru Score of 64%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 6 expert reviewers we have collected.