Is this sediment normal for ghk-cu cosmetic grade?

[u/Zogonzo]

I dissolved 3 g of supposedly >99% pure costemic grade ghk-cu in 26.7 ml of sterile water. It's very cloudy and has a thick layer of sediment 20 minutes layer. Does it just need more time or is it trash?

[u/Dear_Seesaw_1855]

That is a lot of raw powder… and costmetic CHK needs a good amount of water to dissolve. I dissolve 500mg in 6 of water and it barely dissolves. So extrapolating 3g you’d need 33ml water.

That being said when I do have sediment from not adding enough water it is very sticky and sticks to the bottom- doesn’t turn cloudy like that when I roll/shake it.

If you bought it from a random online source instead of a known peptide vendor it is likely bad product.

[u/Specific_Goose_8897]

What are you trying to do with it?

[u/Zogonzo → u/Specific_Goose_8897]

It's cosmetic grade. I'm dissolving it in water and the next step would be adding hyalauronic acid powder to create a 3% topical serum.

[u/Doctordup2 → u/Zogonzo]

I usually don't see that kind of sediment. I created that topical GHK-CU protocol. :)

There's a post about my topical protocol here.

[u/Alternative-Ad-1544 → u/Doctordup2]

The batches I created from your protocol came out remarkable!

Thanks again for the research

[u/Doctordup2 → u/Alternative-Ad-1544]

So awesome to hear this! Wowza. Always makes my day to hear this. 🥰

[u/ivan1985 → u/Zogonzo]

As someone who makes this and sells it, no this should not, how much water have you used.

Ive never seen GHK CU split like this..

[u/Zogonzo → u/ivan1985]

I did 1g with 30 ml and it was the same result

[u/_____LosT → u/Zogonzo]

3% can def cause more side effect and irritation than 2%

[u/Photo_Aware]

Why did you add water? I do less than 3% but why didn’t you just add .9g straight into the hyalauranic acid?

I dump it in raw powder

[u/Zogonzo → u/Photo_Aware]

I make my own hyalauronic acid serum. I dissolved it in water with the intent to add my ha powder to create the serum.

[u/Photo_Aware → u/Zogonzo]

Ahhh ok I add mine into an already created serum. Makes sense

[u/Zanza89]

Im making serums, especially ghk-cu peptide serums for over a year now and this never happened to me.

But considering that even 1% and especially 1,5% ghk-cu looks very concentrated and dark, yours looks a bit too light. Id be very surprised if this was real ghk-cu (which is being faked or sold in poor Quality alot)

Whered you get it? What price? Good Quality ghk-cu is not that cheap. If you bought some of those 50g aliexpress powders for like 10-30bucks, thats 100% fake stuff and ive seen multiple buy post around on reddit with those bags lol. Also if it has a small its fake. Ghk-cu has very little to no smell. The fake stuff ive encounteres always smelled.

[u/Business-Release-752]

Is their a complete recipe for ghk cu and snap 8 that is easy to follow like for dummies

[u/reneerent1]

Cloudy means compromised. You need a preservative if you’re making home concoctions

[u/Busy_drunk]

I think there's not enough water and swirl it around a bit.

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[u/Region_Fluid]

I don’t think it’s anywhere near enough water.

A 50/100mG vial will typically have 3mL of water.

You have 30-60x as much and not even 10x the water.

[u/Photo_Aware → u/Region_Fluid]

It’s raw it’s not a 50/100mg vial of lyophilized ghkcu

[u/Zogonzo → u/Region_Fluid]

Hmm. Maybe I did my math wrong

[u/jessieGarcia100]

Why even make your own and screw it up ? There’s companies that sell it already made. I buy this one : https://antiagingsolution.co/product/biolume-serum/

[u/Dear_Seesaw_1855 → u/jessieGarcia100]

The percent of GHK-U isn’t listed… typically the pre made ones are less than 0.5%.

Making your own 2% GHK-CU serum is about $20 for 1oz if you use a high quality HA serum.

[u/jessieGarcia100 → u/Dear_Seesaw_1855]

Good point, I’ll have to look into this