Full stated quantity, and nothing overstated — every active's purity and identity are measured, not claimed, and printed on its batch COA with counter-ion and water.
Full stated quantity, purity never overstated — measured on a per-lot COA.
Full quantity, nothing overstated — per-lot COA.
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Story
Headquartered in Shanghai, China, Pepoderma is a cosmetic-grade peptide-active atelier built on a peptide-synthesis operation running since 2013. Our buyers are indie beauty brand founders, established skincare R&D labs, med-aesthetic OEMs, cosmetic contract manufacturers, and K-Beauty / J-Beauty / EU beauty houses.
How we're organised
Pepoderma is structured so every buyer-facing decision — sample timeline, formulation-stability scope, custom brief, lot release — passes through people who own the relevant function. Inquiries land with Brand Partnerships, but Lot- Data QA and Formulation R&D review every quote that touches a custom-synthesis spec or non-standard carrier before it goes out.
Function
Owns solid-phase peptide synthesis of cosmetic-grade actives — Copper Tripeptide-1, AHK-Cu, Acetyl Octapeptide-3, Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4. Final sign-off on every commercial release and on custom-synthesis lots scoped for brand programmes.
Focus
Solid-phase synthesis of cosmetic-grade peptide actives
Background
Solid-phase peptide synthesis with a focus on cosmetic-active work; cosmetic-INCI-grade formulations and brand-OEM development experience.
Function
Owns the analytical packet for every cosmetic-grade lot — RP-HPLC purity, ESI-MS identity, Karl Fischer water, counter-ion, stability in reference aqueous serum. No lot ships without QA sign-off on the lot report.
Focus
Analytical method development for peptide actives
Background
Analytical method development for peptide actives in cosmetic carriers; calibration and qualification on HPLC, ESI-MS, KF titrators under the Pepoderma analytical SOP.
Function
Carrier compatibility, incompatibility flagging (chelators, low-pH oxidants, reductive antioxidants), stability scoping in brand-specific carriers, and custom-synthesis briefs (PEGylation, lipidation, fluorescent / isotope labels for R&D work).
Focus
Carrier-compatibility and stability scoping for cosmetic actives
Background
Peptide and cosmetic-formulation chemistry, with bespoke peptide-active work for indie beauty and luxury skincare programmes.
Function
Single contact for indie beauty founders, established skincare R&D teams, med-aesthetic OEMs, and cosmetic contract manufacturers. Reviews each inquiry against the B2B policy before pricing; supports the cosmetic-notification documentation pathway (CPNP and equivalents).
Focus
Cross-border cosmetic-active B2B and brand-OEM liaison
Background
Cross-border cosmetic-active commercial relationships; familiarity with cosmetic-INCI notification frameworks across the EU, UK, Japan, Korea, MENA, LATAM, and the broader APAC market.
Individual leader identities are disclosed under NDA at the commercial-relationship stage rather than on the public site. Avatars above are monogram-style identifiers, not photographs.
How we work
The manufacturing behind Pepoderma has run since 2013, starting as a small peptide-synthesis operation supplying cosmetic ingredient houses, and over time concentrated the bench on a single problem: building INCI-documented peptide actives that finished-product brands can drop into a serum, cream, or eye-area formulation without surprise stability work.
Today the atelier ships Copper Tripeptide-1, AHK-Cu, Acetyl Octapeptide-3, and Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4 under that discipline, and a growing list of bespoke peptide-active programmes for brand operators who need a cosmetic-grade formulation partner — modified Matrixyl variants, custom ratios for OEM brand lines, and isotope-labelled actives for stability and penetration research.
Our positioning is deliberately not the cheapest cosmetic-peptide source. We invest in the lot-data programme (per-lot RP-HPLC, ESI-MS identity, water content, counter-ion, stability in reference aqueous serum) and in the formulation-support side (carrier-compatibility flagging, INCI naming, CPNP-aware documentation) because the brands that need a cosmetic-peptide atelier are the brands that ship the finished product their buyers actually read the label on.
The regulatory context Pepoderma works in is cosmetic — INCI naming under EC 1223/2009 in the EU, NMPA cosmetic ingredient framework in mainland China, FDA OTC monograph framework (where applicable) in the US, and equivalent regimes elsewhere. The buyer-qualification framework is published at /legal/b2b-only.
Start a brand brief
Tell us the brief — the active, your carrier, and your market. We send the INCI-documented active with its lot data and carrier-compatibility flags, so your stability work starts with answers, not surprises.
First response under 24 hours · Catalog · Sample COA · MOQ · Lead time. Our regulatory and atelier teams review every inquiry before pricing.
