Is Peach & Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum worth it?

The gurus mostly approve it, but with enough reservations to keep it in the middle at a Guru Score of 74%.

What is Peach & Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum's Guru Score?

Peach & Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum holds a Guru Score of 74%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 5 expert reviewers we have collected.

Peach & Lily

Glass Skin Refining Serum.

Serums

About this product

A lightweight, fragrance-free gel serum designed to hydrate and refine skin texture using multiple types of hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, and peptides.

Full ingredients

Water (Aqua), Propanediol, Butylene Glycol, Niacinamide, 1,2-Hexanediol, Prunus Persica (Peach) Fruit Extract, Dioscorea Japonica Root Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Adenosine, Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate, Madecassoside, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate, Acetyl Octapeptide-3, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hydrolyzed Corn Starch, Sodium Carbomer, Beta-Glucan, Saccharide Isomerate, Phytic Acid, Sucrose, Asiaticoside, Caprylyl Glycol

Guru Score

74%

Mixed

5 experts · Moderate agreement

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What they liked

Fragrance-free gel texture
Absorbs easily without greasiness
Smooths skin with hydrating ingredients

What they flagged

Takes a long time to dry down
Tacky during the drying phase
Lacks the glossy finish the name suggests

What the gurus are saying

The multi-tasking ingredient profile (multiple types of hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, matrixyl, and peptides) earns praise as a gentle, safe formula; reviewers have repurchased it repeatedly and recommend it for sensitive or active routines. The texture divides opinion: the gel is tacky while drying and takes a long time to set, finishing matte rather than glossy, so it's worth testing first if you expect a dewy feel.

Synthesized from 5 expert reviews · most recent take March 2026

Type

SerumsDrops & dropper

Key actives

Niacinamide Hyaluronic acid Peptides

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

Where to buy

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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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No BS Beauty

89k subs

~Approved

"This is a wonderful product from Peach and Lily. It's got a really wonderful gel serum texture. It kind of sets to a slightly radiant finish, but not terribly shiny compared to some of the other ones, but it does soak in. It's a water-based serum. In here we've got lots of goodies. Yam root extract, which is also called phytoin. Really wonderful ingredient. It's great for hydrating skin, soothing skin, and perhaps even anti-aging benefits. We've got matteside, which is derived from [Centella], which may have collagen and elastin production properties deep down in skin. We've even got some peptides and betaglucan in here. So this is kind of a powerhouse product. It's got a little bit of everything. It works for everything. Soothing, anti-aging, hydrating, protecting skin. It's got it all going on. And it does that all while being unscented, which I love. Makes it wonderful for most routines. I've repurchased this a lot of times."

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"The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum is really nice, fragrance-free gel serum. I love this stuff. It's now in a glass bottle, used to be in plastic."

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"The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum is really nice, fragrance-free gel serum. I love this stuff. It's now in a glass bottle, used to be in plastic."

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"The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum has niacinamide, matrixyl, and asiaticoside in common with the Sunday Riley, and also the Peony Yu black tea boosting serum has nice niacinamide, asiaticoside, and slipping green of glycerin in common."

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"I've repurchased this what six, seven times now. The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum is really nice. It's a nice fragrance-free gel texture serum with some nice anti-aging and brightening and hydrating ingredients, yet still being a nice product. In terms of simplicity, it's really wonderful. It's [...] a really nice kind of neutralizing serum, so if you want to use like peptides in the same routine as maybe like an exfoliant or something, [...] this is a really nice neutralizing product to use in between them."

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"The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum is really wonderful. It's a [...] neutral serum, something without a ton of ingredients, something that's hydrating and [...] acts as a buffer between other products."

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"The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum, which is 39 bucks, also contains Snap-8. If you haven't tried this one, it's really wonderful and really easy to fit in your routine as well."

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"The texture is very similar to the Purito Super Light, absorbs quickly, non-greasy. It's in a glass bottle now, which is good for recycling. It's more of a niacinamide type serum with simple ingredients. It's still good and works well for a lot of people. I just want something with a little bit more antioxidants and maybe more anti-aging benefits. I still use it from time to time."

Kelly Driscoll

90k subs

~Skip

"I'm just not really impressed with this product. [...] Folks who are looking for slickness, wetness, hydration are going to be disappointed by this."

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"I'm just not really impressed with this product. [...] Folks who are looking for slickness, wetness, hydration are going to be disappointed by this."

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"It does take a long time to dry down and while it is in that kind of semi-wet state it's quite tacky. Once it is dry it does dry matte. I thought that a glass skin serum was going to give me really shiny skin, but it doesn't actually have like a high gloss finish to it. The texture is kind of a meh for me, but also the results of this are a meh for me as well. I understand why people may like this, but I also see why people don't like this. This can be a really you either love it or hate it type of product. On the whole I don't find it super impressive."

Lab Muffin Beauty Science

861k subs

~Approved

"I've also been using the Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum. This is another serum that has lots of different types of hyaluronic acid including an acetylated one. It also has niacinamide and a bunch of centella ingredients. It is just a really gentle product. The founder of Peach and Lily has really sensitive skin so this was just to me a really safe product to throw into my routine. I'll usually use this on nights when my skin is irritated but I want something soothing and hydrating and more active."

Hyram

4.34M subs

~Approved

"The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum does such a good job at smoothing over the skin making it truly have that glasslike appearance. As opposed to the B.E. Hydra serum from Drunk Elephant which has a good ingredient list but is really only focused on hydration, the Peach and Lily serum has great hydrating ingredients, it has mass aside which is great for reducing sensitivity, niacinamide, peptides, like it just has so many different types of good ingredients all loaded into one formula. It's $39, definitely one of the more expensive products that I recommend on my channel but definitely well worth the price."

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"The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum, ah smash, I love that product so much. [...] Whenever I've used that serum I'm like, oh my God, this actually does such a good job of smoothing over the skin, but also has an incredible ingredient list."

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"This product has an absolutely ridiculous cult following and there's a good reason for that. It's an amazing experience, particularly if you have combination skin. It's packed with really powerful antioxidants like madecassoside, which is great for reducing redness and sensitivity, but it also has niacinamide, a hyaluronic acid complex, peach extract, and a peptide complex, which is very rare to find in a lightweight serum. It's not super heavy on the skin, it's lightweight and absorbs easily, but it does an amazing job of making your skin look plump, smoothed, and hydrated without being super greasy. It's just a really, really good product. It's one of the few viral products that I actually stand behind. So freaking good, highly recommend."

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"The Peach & Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum went so viral, and initially I was very skeptical, but when I looked at the ingredients I was like, wow, I really like the ingredients. I am not necessarily a believer in the glass skin effect, but holy, this one smooths your skin so much and it's really hydrating, super good formula."

AliceintheRabbitHole

59k subs

~Approved

"I feel like I've seen people reduce the Peach and Lily Glass Skin Serum down a little too much in my opinion. I think this is a phenomenal serum. Yes it's basic, it is a basic niacinamide and hyaluronic acid serum, but it doesn't stop there, it's multiple forms of hyaluronic acid, it's got a peptide ingredient, it's got sea actives in it, and I think that's what makes this formula so special. You're getting hydration and also some barrier boosting properties, some plant ingredients for antioxidants, hydrating beta glucan. I really think it's such a nice formula, and if you get it for fifty percent off this will be under twenty dollars. The one catch is if you're a K-beauty enthusiast this might not be that unique to you, it reminds me a lot of the Torriden serum, so it has some competition, but in this sale it's a great price."

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"The Peach and Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum is a fantastic serum, heavily inspired by K beauty. It's a great everyday serum, great for adding hydration and evening out your skin tone via the niacinamide, and it provides antioxidant activity. I stopped buying it once I got into K beauty and realized that type of product is everywhere there for a lot less. I still like it, and if you aren't interested in importing products from overseas you still might enjoy this serum, but that's why I quit buying it even though I still like it."

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