This lip treatment earns consistent praise for delivering visible hydration and a glossy, plumped appearance that lasts through wear, though some gurus note it requires reapplication throughout the day rather than all-day coverage. The thick, chunky texture and peptide-rich formula appeal to those with very dry lips, and it plays well under makeup as a primer. One caveat: the fragranced versions divide opinion sharply on scent (banana-dessert notes that some love, others find off-putting), and an earlier formulation had graininess that a 2025 reformulation with liquid shea butter addressed, though some gurus mention lingering concerns about the fragrance itself.
Synthesized from 10 expert reviews · most recent take August 2026
"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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"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."
"Can I just talk about this Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment? 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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"Can I just talk about this Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment? 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."
"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. When they first were teasing this on Instagram I thought I had tried something similar, and then I bought it and tried it out, and it's like no, this is not like anything that I've ever tried. So it's incredible."
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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."
"I have to say honestly, I did not expect to be impressed by a celebrity skincare line. 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. The Rhode Peptide Glazing Fluid is just a really beautiful lightweight gel cream with peptide and hyaluronic acid, super lightweight, lovely lovely."
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"I have to say honestly, I did not expect to be impressed by a celebrity skincare line. 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. The Rhode Peptide Glazing Fluid is just a really beautiful lightweight gel cream with peptide and hyaluronic acid, super lightweight, lovely lovely."
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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."
"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."
"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. When we are using skin care products, it's to support some outcome for skin health, whether it be improvement in moisture retention, whether it be minimizing redness or irritation, improving overall skin tone, and we expect when we use a product consistently that we're going to see some type of result."
"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."
"Her products are decent. They aren't extreme. They're not trying to be the most visually shocking. They're not relying on gimmicks in the formula. [...] Whilst her products do the job they need to do, I think that's clever."
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"Her products are decent. They aren't extreme. They're not trying to be the most visually shocking. They're not relying on gimmicks in the formula. [...] Whilst her products do the job they need to do, I think that's clever."
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"It wasn't the response that everyone was looking forward to. It wasn't a response that people took well, especially since Rhode's products aren't particularly cheap, and it wouldn't be until another year later when they went viral again for the same issue that Rhode would finally make some changes. 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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"These lip tints give you a real glossy finish, which I absolutely love, and it isn't too colored. It's very natural looking. They're not heavy, they're not sticky. They don't taste like lip products. They're really not sticky, really non-bothersome. And the colors are just there's enough colors for all different kind of lip shades. They keep that moisture and they hold that hydration throughout the day without having to constantly reapply."
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"I respect their products. I respect their, marketing. I respect the, the things they're coming out with."
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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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"Rhode's product line, while very much loved, is still pretty limited. They rely heavily on just a few hero products like the peptide glazing fluid and their cult favorite lip peptide treatments."
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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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"The Rhode peptide lip treatments have been one of my favorite products of the last couple of years, moisturizing and nourishing, with lip tints so good that pretty much every brand has copied the shades. 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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"I looked into her, and she appears to have a genuine passion for skincare unlike any other celebrity that has launched a skincare brand. What I care about is what products come out of this. I honestly think she's going to make something good. It seems genuine, it seems authentic, and it's probably one of the only celebrity skincare launches that I'm actually genuinely interested in."
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"I've only had these products for like five days and I already can tell I love this product. 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. I do have a slight issue with the non-scented one in that I can kind of taste it at the back of my throat, but when it comes to the flavored ones I'm really enjoying these. The way this has improved the texture, the feeling, and the condition of my lips, it's just done the job it's supposed to do."
"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.
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.
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.
A hydrating lip treatment formulated with peptides, shea butter, and ceramides, designed to nourish and plump lips overnight or as a daytime balm.
Is Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment worth it?
Mostly yes. 8 of the 10 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 78%.
What is Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment's Guru Score?
Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment holds a Guru Score of 78%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 10 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.
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