Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment: a Guru Score of 79%

What the experts use it for.

The concerns the experts tie this product to, in their own words. Paid and founder takes don't count.

Fine lines and wrinkles1 expert

“A Peptide Lip Treatment hydrated your lips great, smoothing fine lines and apparently plumping your lips over time.”

Dry or chapped lips1 expert

“The reason I love this lip balm is that not only does it do a good job of keeping my lips hydrated not dry or cracked but it gives the lips this like ultra glossy look”

Hyram, watch at 11:42

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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Hyram

4.33M subs

✓Yay

"That's the Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment. In my opinion that's like Rhode's best product, it's definitely the one I've reached for the most and repurchased, I absolutely love the peptide lip balm. I know some people say they didn't have a positive experience with it, which is kind of crazy to me because it's one of my favorite lip treatments, it [...] always makes my lips look really glowy and plump."

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"I have always been impressed with Rhode Skincare. I feel like those formulas just right out of the gate were so good. I'm still personally obsessed with the lip balm. It's my favorite product from her. I like all of the formulas. The entire formulation philosophy of Rhode Skin is so good, and she's worked with some of the best dermatologists out there to create the brand."

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"I'm currently using the Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment. This one definitely doesn't last all day but it makes the lips look really fresh and glossy. It's a really good touch up on your lips. [...] It's not like lip gloss level but your lips definitely look healthy and they feel good."

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"The reason I love this lip balm is that not only does it do a good job of keeping my lips hydrated not dry or cracked but it gives the lips this like ultra glossy look"

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"I have always loved it. There's a reason why it is so popular."

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"That's the Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment. In my opinion that's like Rhode's best product, it's definitely the one I've reached for the most and repurchased, I absolutely love the peptide lip balm. I know some people say they didn't have a positive experience with it, which is kind of crazy to me because it's one of my favorite lip treatments, it [...] always makes my lips look really glowy and plump."

Robert Welsh

1.11M subs

✓Yay

"I know people were [...] really overhyping this, but [...] the smell is like this banana, desserty smell on the lips. I put this on overnight and when I wake up in the morning, it's still on my lips. I can feel this hydrated region in my mouth. Usually I'm putting on a night mask hoping that I wake up in the morning with the most plump, smooth lips, but this has been incredible. [...] I think it's a new formulation, which I kind of want to explore a little bit more."

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"I know people were [...] really overhyping this, but [...] the smell is like this banana, desserty smell on the lips. I put this on overnight and when I wake up in the morning, it's still on my lips. I can feel this hydrated region in my mouth. Usually I'm putting on a night mask hoping that I wake up in the morning with the most plump, smooth lips, but this has been incredible. [...] I think it's a new formulation, which I kind of want to explore a little bit more."

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"People genuinely love the lip balms. I love the lip balms."

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"I do like Rhode and they do have some stuff that I really do like. The [...] lip balms, everyone said they changed the formula and I don't like them anymore, but I love that banana one and I even bought a backup. I like the toner, the new one I bought, the milky toner with a shine through it. However, a lot of the other products I could leave."

Abbey Yung

886k subs

✓Yay

"I bought three untinted, [...] four tinted, and one glitter, and all of them are completely smooth except the glitter shade, which is [...] gritty from the glitter itself, not from grainy particles. [...] I've had the vanilla one the longest [...] and it still hasn't gone grainy. [...] I still love the way that this feels. [...] They are all completely smooth and I have high hopes they will stay smooth, but I'm cautiously optimistic, only time will tell."

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"I bought three untinted, [...] four tinted, and one glitter, and all of them are completely smooth except the glitter shade, which is [...] gritty from the glitter itself, not from grainy particles. [...] I've had the vanilla one the longest [...] and it still hasn't gone grainy. [...] I still love the way that this feels. [...] They are all completely smooth and I have high hopes they will stay smooth, but I'm cautiously optimistic, only time will tell."

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"It contains shea butter, acai oil, marula oil, moringa oil, lactic acid, and two different peptides, with a delicious buttery scent. [...] If you don't like a thick lip balm, skip this, [...] because it's super thick, like a buttery, cushy ointment gel. [...] The finish is really glossy, and the metal tip applicator makes it even better. I was so mind-blown by this when I first tried it, [...] I don't get this impressed very often, but I am so impressed by this one."

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"I've been complaining about this being grainy for at least two years now, and this one was grainy immediately, the first time I put it on. [...] I emailed [...] the company about it before and [...] never heard back. [...] I also love the finish, very glossy with a plumping smoothing effect, it lasts a good amount of time and feels conditioning, but it's just not worth it, why would you spend money on something you know is not going to be smooth."

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"I was just on fire, so I thought that this lip oil was going to be absolutely incredible, but it just wasn't amazing for me."

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"I love the way that this smells to me, it's more like strawberry shortcake, it reminds me of Franken Berry cereal, [...] so I'm addicted to this right now. I will note that a previous flavor of this same lip treatment [...] went grainy on me after purchase, which the brand said is a common complaint caused by waxes in the formula that can harden with temperature changes, and they replaced them for me, though the granules didn't fully smooth out on application like they claimed."

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"I have always loved this Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment because it has really nice ingredients, it's cushy, it's comfortable, and has a beautifully glossy finish, so all around a lip treatment that looks and feels great on the lips. My love for this skyrocketed when they released their limited edition fragrance in birthday cake. [...] This just smells so good, it's perfect, [...] it's by far my favorite scent."

Dr. Somji Skin

361k subs

✓Yay

"There's many different formulations but a lot of celebrity skincare brands have got lip products, and I'm assuming this has got peptides to help nourish the lips as well as helping the skin barrier with nice essential oils as well. And this is the Salted Caramel scent and it's so yummy smelling."

Dr Dray

2.69M subs

✓Nay

"This looks and performs like a lip gloss. It does not really lead to long-lasting improved hydration in the lips. For example, if I use it at night, the following morning when I wake up, my lips are not necessarily feeling super moisturized. But if I wear it during the day it's kind of like I just put on a lip gloss. [...] It doesn't perform like a skin care product. It performs more like a cosmetic."

Cassandra Bankson

2.46M subs

✓Yay

"Her lips look amazing. This looks like it works for her. I like that they have an unscented one so for people who struggle with angular cheilitis or perioral dermatitis you don't want fragrance or irritants in your lip products."

AliceintheRabbitHole

59k subs

✓Yay

"The Item Lip Balm, I regret to inform you, is still my favorite after all of these years. But I don't think you should just buy a full size. There's a set I think you should get if you're curious about this, since you can get the different shades."

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Allie Glines

829k subs

✓Yay

"My lips are so dry. I held off hydrating them because I knew I wanted to try this today. [...] I got the Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment in the sugar mint, and usually I don't like minty things. This is so cute and chunky. I guess this is their lip mask. It's nice and thick, really thick. [...] The mint is kind of sweet. [...] That felt really nice."

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"My lips are so dry. I held off hydrating them because I knew I wanted to try this today. [...] I got the Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment in the sugar mint, and usually I don't like minty things. This is so cute and chunky. I guess this is their lip mask. It's nice and thick, really thick. [...] The mint is kind of sweet. [...] That felt really nice."

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"I love their Peptide Lip Treatment. It's like my overnight lip mask. It makes my lips feel so hydrated, and I swear to you it somehow plumps and smooths my lips as well. It has ceramides in it as well. I wear it morning and night and it works really well with my other skincare products. It also makes my makeup lay down really well too. I'm just really obsessed with this."

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"I'm going to use this Peptide Lip Treatment from Rhode. It's always good to prep your skin before you do your makeup and this goes for any time of year but especially in the winter like a nice extra prep is key I feel for winter time I want like something that's again going to last a long time but something that's going to give me some skincare benefits."

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"For lip products I love the Ole Henriksen Peptide Lip Treatment as well as the Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment. I've gone back and forth between these two, really love both of those, they hydrate the lips really nicely."

James Welsh

1.58M subs

✓Mixed

"In July of 2025, the brand finally reformulated the Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment, swapping out solid shea butter for liquid shea butter, which seems to have fixed the grainy texture. I don't think they've ever really addressed the moldy, gross smell people have complained about or the claims of adverse reactions."

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"In July of 2025, the brand finally reformulated the Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment, swapping out solid shea butter for liquid shea butter, which seems to have fixed the grainy texture. I don't think they've ever really addressed the moldy, gross smell people have complained about or the claims of adverse reactions."

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"For my Tree Nut allergy or Nut allergy, people do not get the Peptide Lip Treatments. There's no nut warning and that is extremely concerning."

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"Rhode were really, really, really close. They were so close. If it wasn't for Naturium's Phyto-Glow Lip Balm. [...] What makes this better for me than Rhode, is Rhode can be, in comparison, a little bit sticky, and you can kind of choke on the scented flavors of their products. Again, love their products. A very close second. [...] Rhode I find myself applying a lot more than Naturium as well."

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"A Peptide Lip Treatment hydrated your lips great, smoothing fine lines and apparently plumping your lips over time. I mean, it wasn't anything mindblowing, but it was probably an improvement on similar products that already existed in the market. [...] It is my favorite product to come out of Rhode."

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"It's very oily, no stickiness. I'm not a huge fan of these type of applicators anyway. But yeah, it is a bit too big and I don't feel like it should be in a tube either because it's so liquidy. A couple of times, I don't know if it's like the heat or something, but I would open it and it would just come pouring out. [...] It would just come pouring out. [...] That to me, that's just so gross. And because it was spilling out, I just sort of put it on my lip and then I had too much on my lip."

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"But one big reason I have started reaching for other lip balms is that they dry down and dry out so quickly, so I am reapplying every hour. [...] The newest batches also seem to get gristly, [...] run out quickly, and a lot of the tube is just air. As a brand they focus so much on marketing that they need to put more effort into the formulation."

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"I had a grainy lip balm and stopped buying it because they kept getting grainy and I don't want a grainy lip balm. I have ones from the official website that went grainy as well, though older ones didn't smell. There are clear issues with this product that don't happen with other lip balms."

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"The consistency is almost like Laneige but [...] a touch lighter, and it feels nicer on the skin. I can talk properly when this is on my lips and it's easy to go to sleep in without my mouth sticking to the pillow, and I can wear it comfortably throughout the day without it looking too shiny or glossy. [...] Within about five days, this has restored my lips from a dry, cracked mess to a lot plumper and softer to touch and not bleeding anymore. It's been a massive help."

Dr. Aleksandra Brown

153k subs

✓Yay

"I love the lip peptide treatment."

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Nadine Baggott

164k subs

✓Yay

"If you've got teenage daughters, they should be buying Rhode. I think that this brand is so clever, it's barrier boosting, it's gentle, it's peptides, it's barrier protecting. [...] I've not used a duff product, I love it, it's really nice. [...] They are so good, this is the range your daughter should be using. [...] The Peptide Lip Treatment, I don't like the smell of them but I totally get why you love them."

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"If you've got teenage daughters, they should be buying Rhode. I think that this brand is so clever, it's barrier boosting, it's gentle, it's peptides, it's barrier protecting. [...] I've not used a duff product, I love it, it's really nice. [...] They are so good, this is the range your daughter should be using. [...] The Peptide Lip Treatment, I don't like the smell of them but I totally get why you love them."

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"I know she's famous for her peptide lip products but I only like the unfragranced one. I love the packaging, I love the idea that they're barrier repair and peptide based."

Alexandra Anele

1.45M subs

✓Yay

"I've really been loving the Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment. They're just really nice, very very very hydrating. I was super surprised because as you guys know I pretty much only [...] ever wear the Auric lip treatment. [...] This was probably the first time that I used a lip treatment, lip balm, anything like that that didn't dry out my lips and actually hydrated them. I love this and I will not stop using it."

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What the evidence says.

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

Vitamin C

Topical vitamin C is an antioxidant with reasonable evidence for dullness and uneven tone. It breaks down in light and air, so how a product is formulated and packaged matters as much as the percentage on the front.

Source: DermNet

Alpha hydroxy acids

Alpha hydroxy acids loosen the bonds holding dead cells at the surface. The evidence supports smoother texture and more even tone over time, and they can leave skin more sensitive to sun.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

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

Frequently asked.

What is Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment?

A peptide-based lip treatment in a thick, balm-like texture, sold in several scents plus an unscented version, designed to hydrate, smooth and protect the lips.

Is Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment worth it?

Mostly yes. 10 of the 12 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 79%.

What is Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment's Guru Score?

Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment holds a Guru Score of 79%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 12 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.