Oratide Scalp — Copper Peptide Serum
Oratide Scalp — Copper Peptide Serum
Daily, Roots and Restore together: 20% less than buying them separately.
A leave-on scalp serum built with copper tripeptide-1, a three-amino-acid peptide bound to copper. Ours is 1% — 600 mg in the 60 mL bottle.
It works on how your hair and scalp look and feel. Apply to a clean, dry scalp once daily as directed.
- Supports the appearance of fuller-looking hair
- Helps improve the look and feel of the scalp
- 1% copper tripeptide-1 · 600 mg in 60 mL
- Leave-on serum · apply once daily
- One bottle is a 60-day supply — on subscription it ships every 60 days
Product information
Overview
A leave-on serum, 60 mL, at 1% copper tripeptide-1 — 600 mg in the bottle. Copper tripeptide-1 is a three-amino-acid peptide bound to copper. The rest of the formula is water, glycerin and propanediol, with a preservative system and pH adjusters. The full ingredient list is below.
Every batch is tested by an independent laboratory, and the certificate of analysis for each batch is available.
Suggested use
Specifications
- Brand
- Oratide
- Net quantity
- Net 2 FL OZ (60 mL)
- Supply
- 60 days at the suggested use
- SKU
- ORA-SCP-60
Ingredients
Caution
For external use only. Avoid contact with eyes. Discontinue use if irritation occurs. Keep out of reach of children.
Reporting an adverse event
Disclaimer
Product information on this page is provided by Oratide and is for reference only. It is not a substitute for advice from your physician or other healthcare professional. Do not use it to diagnose or treat a health problem.
Packaging and formulas may change. We recommend that you read the label on the product you receive rather than relying only on the information shown here.
Ingredients
Every ingredient, one at a time
Copper Tripeptide-1GHK-Cu · glycyl-L-histidyl-L-lysine copper1% of the formula — about 600 mg in the 60 mL bottle
Provisional — this is our formulation, not yet confirmed in writing by our manufacturer. What is still open is written below.
Three amino acids — glycine, histidine and lysine — joined in a chain and bound to a copper ion. The peptide is not invented: GHK occurs naturally in human plasma. The material in the bottle is synthesized rather than extracted from anything.
One thing you should know before you open it: at 1% this serum is blue. Distinctly, saturated blue. That is what a copper complex looks like at that concentration, it is not a fault, and a colourless copper peptide serum would be the one worth asking questions about.
- Source
- Synthesized. Not a plant extract, not an animal derivative. The INCI order and the finished pH are still to be confirmed in writing by our manufacturer.
- Molecular weight
- Around 340 daltons for the tripeptide, and a little over 400 for the copper complex — to be confirmed against the supplier's specification. Either figure makes it a very small molecule: a fraction of the size of the collagen peptides in Restore, which is the comparison most people are reaching for.
- What was measured
- Hair count in 45 men with diagnosed male pattern hair loss, over six months, using a topical spray.
Why we claim nothing for it
This is the one we expected to be able to stand on, and could not.
The only human randomized controlled trial we could verify on this peptide and hair tested a combination of 5-aminolevulinic acid with a COPPER-FREE version of the peptide. A different molecule, in a combination, and the peptide was never tested by itself. The participants were diagnosed men. And hair growth is an endpoint a cosmetic may not claim at all, whatever a trial found.
Two studies commonly cited in this category — a 2015 trial in postmenopausal women and a 2018 comparison against minoxidil — we could not locate in the medical literature index, so we do not cite them. You will find them cited elsewhere.
Scalp is a cosmetic. It is sold as a leave-on serum, and we tell you exactly what is in it.
EvidenceLee 2016All of it, in full
GlycerinGlycerol
Provisional — this is our formulation, not yet confirmed in writing by our manufacturer. What is still open is written below.
A humectant: a small molecule that holds water and keeps it from evaporating off the skin. It is one of the most used ingredients in cosmetics anywhere, and one of the best understood.
It is second on the INCI list, after water, which tells you it is present at a meaningful percentage rather than as a trace.
Propanediol1,3-propanediol — not propylene glycol
Provisional — this is our formulation, not yet confirmed in writing by our manufacturer. What is still open is written below.
A solvent and a second humectant. It dissolves things water alone will not, thins the feel of a glycerin-heavy formula so it does not sit tacky on a scalp, and makes the preservative system work harder than it would on its own.
Worth separating from a similar name: propanediol is not propylene glycol. It is usually produced by fermenting corn sugar, and it is the gentler of the two on skin.
- Source
- Typically fermentation-derived from corn sugar. To be confirmed with the finished INCI.
Phenoxyethanol and EthylhexylglycerinThe preservative systemBoth at or below 1% — phenoxyethanol is capped at 1% in cosmetics
Provisional — this is our formulation, not yet confirmed in writing by our manufacturer. What is still open is written below.
The pair that stops a water-based product growing bacteria and mould. Phenoxyethanol does the preserving; ethylhexylglycerin is a skin conditioner that also disrupts microbial membranes, which lets the phenoxyethanol work at a lower level than it would need alone.
A leave-on product that contains water must be preserved. A serum sold as preservative-free is either not water-based, or it is relying on something it would rather not name on the front of the bottle.
Citric Acid and Sodium HydroxidepH adjusters
Provisional — this is our formulation, not yet confirmed in writing by our manufacturer. What is still open is written below.
Two ordinary chemicals used in tiny amounts to set the finished pH: one acid, one base, dosed against each other until the number is right.
They matter more here than they would in most serums. Copper tripeptide-1 is stable across a fairly narrow band, and a formula that drifts outside it loses the active it was built around. These two are how it is held there.
Questions
Before you buy this one
How long until I see results?
We don't know, everyone is different, and we'd rather say so than pick a number that sounds good to everyone.
The ingredient research that informed our doses ran anywhere from four weeks to six months depending on what was being measured.
Why didn't my serum arrive this month?
Because one 60 mL bottle of Scalp is a 60-day supply, so on subscription it ships every 60 days.
Daily, Roots and Restore are 30-day supplies and ship every 30 days.
You are only charged when a bottle ships.
What if it doesn't work for me?
Contact support@oratide.com within 60 days of your billing date and we'll send you a Return Merchandise Number (RMA).
Post the empty or unused product back to us with the RMA marked on the parcel, and we'll refund the product price.
We'd rather you told us why, though. It's more useful to us than the money.